Native Americans?

Question

Is it true that all Native Americans were always here in the americas. The history book says America was once uninhabited thousands of years ago and the Native Americans came here from Asia. My mother told me all the Native Americans were always here because the continents broke up. and white men from Europe just came here and tried to make up things and claimed it for them selves when the Indians were always here.. and the indians who were on all the carribean islands were always there and did not just come there centurys ago.... and another thing,,, is it true that the word Indian means a group of people that can be found in most places in the world,, but someone else told me the word Indian only means the country India in asia.

Answer 1

Three of the four main ancestral groups diverged from their Asian forbears at least 20,000 years ago. And even more striking, the first Americans didn't all come at once, but in at least three waves of migration. The fourth ancestral group had DNA tracings back to the Solutreans, people who lived in Ice Age France and Spain. Their progeny are linked by DNA to the modern day Ojibwe Indians.

Answer 2

The start of Americas was when the last ice age was here(although there might be one now)the land was frozen and so Russia and Alaska today were connected, so the Asians from India and all those countries all followed there food(Buffalo's, etc.) and it seemed as though they traveled to the Americas, some Native Americans settled but some went further south like to south America and Mexico(as known today) and they where called Aztecs, Mayas, Olmec, etc. some villages where all across America going from the east part of America to the west, they also took part of the North(Canada and the isles) There is a map in my history book where some camps were settled, the archaeologists found arrow heads and beads and stuff like that, that's how people know that Native Americans where settled there once. As the ice age left the world, the waters all were restored, and it flooded some parts of the land and took made a big strait so that the people in asia coul not travel there any more. the people in Europe and Russia all forgot about the people that where over in America, there were rumors that there were people to the west, but it sorta died down. The vikings were the next ones to find the Native Americans but it didnt go very far. the next people to discover the Natives were the english(england and those countries). The man who did so was Columbus, i think he was rude and took the Natives for capture, and enslaved them i think that they should have just stayed in peace. But it was the kings fault of that time. As that was taking place, further south the Mayas, were dying down, and the Aztecs were taking place, they built wonderous palaces, they were rich with gold, and it was very nice to live there, unfortunatly they also died away.

Answer 3

Historically, all people came from Africa. As they spread out North to Europe and the Russias they became more diversified. They spread East into what is now China and Siberia and Mongolia and South into India. Thousands of years ago the oceans were lower and there was a land bridge that connected Siberia to the North American continent. Between twenty to forty thousand years ago people and various animals crossed that into North America and spread south. Those people eventually became Native Americans and when travel and boats were invented to the West Indies. There was a special on TV about a man who traced the roots of all peoples back to the one tribe of people who while small today, all civilized people originally came from from deciphering their DNA. Hope this helps, a lot of Native American myth says all sorts of different things about where they came from and how they got there.

Answer 4

There is many theories as to how the Americas were inhibited. I know that many Native Americans say that their ancestors were created here from the earth. I saw a show on genetics where they ran DNA testing to prove or dis prove the out of Africa theory, and although it was pretty much proved, there still was some that weren't accountable in the Americas. This show started in Africa to middle east, into Asia, and down into the Americas as one leg. I think for myself that there is not enough material out there to consider ANY theory absolute or not, I strongly feel it to be a combination of several theories that led to an inhabited American continent.

Answer 5

It has been proven through DNA analysis that Native Americans are genetically related to Mongolians!