Classification
According to Ethnologist and Linguist, the Navajos are classified scientifically as follows,
Primary Race : Mongoloid (Asian) or
Xanthochroid
(Homo Sapiens Asiaticus)
Secondary Race : American Indian
Ensemble : Na-Dené
Branch : Athabascan-Eyak
Family : Athabascan
Group : Athabascan
Sub-Group : Apachean
Unit : Navajo-Apache
Sub-Unit : Western Apache
Tribe : Navajo (Diné)
what does primary and secondary race mean?
2007-10-09 10:48:52 · 10 answers · asked by Mr. G 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Does this mean that the Navajos are Asian?
2007-10-09 11:03:40 · update #1
It means they've traced the American indians (secondary race) back to the race from which they evolved the asians (primary race).
2007-10-09 10:52:54 · answer #1 · answered by livemoreamply 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the list is a linguistic classification more than a racial one and the primary and secondary race are being used here as broad group markers.
From "Ensemble" down, he's speaking of linguistic/cultural groups.
from Wiki: "The Dené-Caucasian (also called Sino-Caucasian or Dené-Sino-Caucasian) language family is a proposed language superfamily containing at least the Basque, Caucasian, Yeniseian, Burushaski, Sino-Tibetan, and Na-Dené languages."
from Lapahie: "The Na-Dené Ensemble included 4 major Groups: the Eyak, the Haida, the Tlingit, and the Athabascan (or Athapaskan)."
2007-10-09 11:03:08 · answer #2 · answered by dlpm 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1] the primary race is the 'root' race, which the second is a division of.
2] the secondary race is a category/division of the primary race.
Example: you are German [ primary], and ancestors are from Bavarian [ secondary ] area of Germany. Bad analogy, best I could think of on short notice. they are like bloodlines for horses, or pedigrees for dogs.
Or, a] the H.S. Asiaticus [ primary, or main race ] produced several classes,
including the b] American Indian, which produced several classes, including
c] Na-Dene', which produced several etc., incl.
d] Athabascan-Eyak, and so on to the
j] Navaho [ Dine' ] tribe.
2007-10-09 10:57:10 · answer #3 · answered by Nurse Susan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Primary is the main source on where your ancestry came from. The American Indian's origin is from Asia, the Mongol. Your first ancestry came to the New World way back thousand years ago and migrated to the New World. Later they became the America Indian which is your secondary ancestry.
2007-10-09 10:55:10 · answer #4 · answered by j g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Primary means the race before any contact with other races. Secondary means the race after contact with other races and having some customs adapted from this contact
2007-10-09 10:53:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that those two races existed before the Navajos. When they merged together the race created was Navajos!
2007-10-09 10:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by B. D Mac 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
at a guess primary race would be where your family history orginated has its strongest bloodline, so family originated from asia and at some point american india entered your family tree passing on those gene trates to yourself
2007-10-09 10:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by skippy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like in a country, there are people who rule it and then there are the secondary race who rule it:)
2007-10-09 10:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by Stuck 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not pure breed, mongrel. They are a mix of two races.
2007-10-09 10:52:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
"Comes from"..."turns into".....get it ?
2007-10-09 10:51:57 · answer #10 · answered by kimmy3 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋