American Indians

[Cypress]

According to the professor of an evolution and genetics class I recently took, the genetic diversity of indigenous Americans is lower than any other continental population group on the planet. Which is further evidence they descended from a relatively small population(s) of hunter-gatherers that crossed over Beringia from Siberia into the Americas in the late Paleolithic.

[Phantasmal]

I love how liberals/democrats embrace such a misnomer.

Idiots.

My neighbor that lives two doors down from me is an American Indian, so is her husband, they were born in India but became citizens.

[ThatOwlWoman]

According to the professor of an evolution and genetics class I recently took, the genetic diversity of indigenous Americans is lower than any other continental population group on the planet. Which is further evidence they descended from a relatively small population(s) of hunter-gatherers that crossed over Beringia from Siberia into the Americas in the late Paleolithic.

Yep. You might find this article interesting:

"Willerslev added the Spirit Cave data to 14 other new whole genomes from sites scattered from Alaska to Chile and ranging from 10,700 to 500 years old. His data join an even bigger trove published in Cell by a team led by population geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston. They analyzed DNA from 49 new samples from Central and South America dating from 10,900 to 700 years old, at more than 1.2 million positions across the genome. All told, the data decisively dispel suggestions, based on the distinctive skull shape of a few ancient remains, that early populations had a different ancestry from today's Native Americans. "Native Americans truly did originate in the Americas, as a genetically and culturally distinctive group. They are absolutely indigenous to this continent," Raff says."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...-south-america

[ThatOwlWoman]

' Native ' by birth is NOT indigenous, you buttocks-clenched dumbasses.

Haw, haw.....................................haw.

I know I shouldn't encourage you boys when you start flinging insults, but this just made me spit tea everywhere. lol

[Mason Michaels]

Yep. You might find this article interesting:

"Willerslev added the Spirit Cave data to 14 other new whole genomes from sites scattered from Alaska to Chile and ranging from 10,700 to 500 years old. His data join an even bigger trove published in Cell by a team led by population geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston. They analyzed DNA from 49 new samples from Central and South America dating from 10,900 to 700 years old, at more than 1.2 million positions across the genome. All told, the data decisively dispel suggestions, based on the distinctive skull shape of a few ancient remains, that early populations had a different ancestry from today's Native Americans. "Native Americans truly did originate in the Americas, as a genetically and culturally distinctive group. They are absolutely indigenous to this continent," Raff says."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...-south-america

Isn't that what Mason said!

[Cypress]

Yep. You might find this article interesting:

"Willerslev added the Spirit Cave data to 14 other new whole genomes from sites scattered from Alaska to Chile and ranging from 10,700 to 500 years old. His data join an even bigger trove published in Cell by a team led by population geneticist David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston. They analyzed DNA from 49 new samples from Central and South America dating from 10,900 to 700 years old, at more than 1.2 million positions across the genome. All told, the data decisively dispel suggestions, based on the distinctive skull shape of a few ancient remains, that early populations had a different ancestry from today's Native Americans. "Native Americans truly did originate in the Americas, as a genetically and culturally distinctive group. They are absolutely indigenous to this continent," Raff says."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...-south-america

^^ right-wing lies utterly refuted

[ThatOwlWoman]

^^ right-wing lies utterly refuted

[Cinnabar]

I'm surprised they actually use American Indian now, instead of Native American. Seems like a huge compromise for leftists.

They are not Indians. So I cannot understand why anyone would call them that.

[cancel2 2022]

Thy are not Indians. So I cannot understand why anyone would call them that.

There isn't much that you do understand seemingly, but then anybody that names themselves after a toxic ore of mercury is just not right in the head!

[cancel2 2022]

My neighbor that lives two doors down from me is an American Indian, so is her husband, they were born in India but became citizens.

How about Liarwatha, does she live in your street as well?

[moon]

There isn't much that you do understand seemingly, but then anybody that names themselves after a toxic ore of mercury is just not right in the head!

You've tried that canard previously maggot. Check a thesaurus on your way out.

Isn't ' Havana gila ' a Jewish dance ? Or some sort of Florida lizard ? Both suit you.

[Into the Night]

You're not an indigenous American. Yes, you're native by birth- but not of origin. The First Nations are indigenous.

How do you know? Were you here to watch the first one born in America??

[Into the Night]

They are not Indians. So I cannot understand why anyone would call them that.

Because you don't speak Spanish or bother to look up the writings between Columbus and the King of Spain.

Columbus noted that the indigenous people he found in America had no thieves or liars among them, they were honest, and gave freely. He referred to them as if they were 'children of God', or 'Los Ninos de la Endeo', later corrupted to indian by the sailors. The nation of India wasn't called that until some 300 years later. The commonly told story that Columbus thought he landed in India is bogus.

Anyone born in America is a native American. The politically correct BS is...well...BS.

[Into the Night]

You're not an indigenous American. Yes, you're native by birth- but not of origin. The First Nations are indigenous.

Define 'indigenous'. Do you think the indians just sprang out of the ground from nothing??

[Into the Night]

Asia, by most accounts- but the First Nations are exactly that- ' here first '- ergo ' indigenous '.

There are several indicators that the indians originally came from Asia (Polynesia?). One of the strongest is the similar religion of Shinto (as it's called in Japan, the indians have various names for it that they use) that they both share. Whether by boat or whether they walked in across some land bridge is unknown. Most indications is that they arrived by sea. There are also indications that other people have come and gone (destroyed?) in America.

Much is simply unknown. Many indians have died as a result of exposure to European diseases, others due to wars between each other, and wars against those newly arrived from Europe. The tale if the indian in America is a sad one.

Whether they were here first is unknown. They were certainly here before the Europeans arrived.