Do indians from india have american indian ancestors?

Answer 1

Uh, no.

Answer 2

As an Indian, I'm deeply offended by your stupidity. Even though all human beings on Earth have common ancestry in Africa, your ignorance about Indians cannot be justified in 2007.

For putting the record straight, American Indians had their ancestors migrate from Siberia (in Russia) across the Bering Strait towards Alaska 10,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Original_peopling_of_the_Americas

Genetically, Native Americans, thus, have more in common with modern-day Chinese and Mongolians than any other group.

Indians in comparison are a very different multi-racial group. The original Indians belonged to the Australian/Negrito racial grouping some 10,000 years ago. This was followed by Dravidians who built the famous Indus Valley Civilization 5000 years ago (first civilization in the world with artificial drainage systems and town planning). Later on, some 3000-3500 years ago from now, Aryan tribes invaded India from the North. Genetically, they were the same as modern-day Caucasian/White people in Europe. Later on, several tribes migrated to India over various periods of time including the Greeks under Alexander in 327 BC...Greeks and Persians (Kushanas)b and Sakas (Central Asians)...around 200 AD. This was followed by Muslims from Arab world and Persia/Central Asia 1000 AD onwards.

So you can see Indians are a huge kaleidoscope people with ancestries from around the world.

Answer 3

Greenman is correct in why the Native Americans are sometimes miscalled Indians. As far as ancestry, Indians and Native Americans had common ancestors 15 to 20 thousand years ago.

Answer 4

It is possible, given modern immigration around the world, that some residents of India have American Indian ancestors.

However, Columbus thought he had discovered a western passage to India and incorrectly named the indigenous people "Indians" not realizing he had landed on an entirely different continent.

Answer 5

no, Indians from India and American Indians are completely different people. I've read somewhere long time ago that someone has mistaken the native americans as indians when he discovered america...he thought that he had sailed to India. thats why native americans are called indians...

Answer 6

No...the ancestors of the Native Americans actually came from Eastern Asia to America some 10.000 years ago, during our last Ice Age, through the Bering Strait Bridge...some years later, the Ice Age ended, and the bridge melted, leading them to develop independently from their Ancestors for all of those years, although they still resemble the East Asians in many ways(high cheekbones, wide face, short skull, scanty pilosity, and very dark, thick and straight hair...and also, some of them, but not all, also have the typical Asian slanted eyes)

Answer 7

American Indians were mis-named because early explorers, like Christopher Columbus, thought they were in the Spice Islands, near India.

They were wrong, of course, but the name stuck and Americans Indians have been mis-labeled for 500+ years.

There is no connection between Indians and Aboriginal Americans.

Answer 8

No. There were people in India long before people came to the American continent.

Answer 9

No.....you just answered your own question....AMERICAN INDIANS and INDIANS from INDIA.....HOW would they be the same...I am Native American Indian....1/4 and I take offense to anyone thinking I am anything but AMERICAN.....

Answer 10

im american indian, and no i dont think so. before chris columbus came, nobody even knew we existed and we didnt know anyone else did. us and indians are two completly different people and cultures. i mean it could be possible, but i very highly doubt it.

Answer 11

Omg