If humans have inhabited America for 30,000 years why do today's natives call themselves first nation people
375157
Because they are fools.
859855
Gee I dunno.  Maybe because we're the genetic leftover dregs from every civilization on this planet from 1492 to 1950?  Think about it- every decent nation threw its DNA genetic drift to either the United States or Austraila\n\nThe Chinese culture goes back thousands of years.  The culture of the US goes back maybe 140 years, considering the population density?\n\nYou are stastically correct from the perspective that the United States is the most bloodthirsty nation in history with an average of some 180 conflicts in its 240 year history
136107
yes, I am certainly aware of this.  North America has 3 countries, Central America has 7 or 8 (I forget) and South America has a lot (sorry, I don't know that either).\n\nI think it all started when we called ourselves The United States of America.  We were already refered to as "The Americans" in England (since England owned the Colonies and Canada I guess it was a natural thing to do when refering to the far away place.  We still do it today when we speak of African or Asian people).\n\nIt isn't so much of a stereotype as it is a missuse of words.
654463
I've heard they like to be called Little People. But thats also like the Indians (or Native Americans) 'likeing' to be called Native Americans.
199920
The native Americans.
192989
I presume you mean Native Americans.  As someone with both Native American and European blood in them, I can answer with a little less bias.  Humans have been spreading around the globe since we left Africa About 74,000 years ago.  We took the land from the Neanderthals.  If they still existed today, they'd be complaining as much as the Native Americans do.  And, to some extent, they have the right to.  The Europeans thought they were the civilized ones, and instead of learning what the Indians had to teach about living with the land, they just took it away.  The Europeans went about things in the wrong way.  Like bullies taking over the school playground.  I think the Indians took it far better then I would have. I have more European blood than Indian, but I have to side with the Indians on this one.  Some Indians take things to far, but the vast majority do not.  As to Kenwick man ... irregardless of how old he is, he was here before the Europeans, therefore, must be Indian.  I think, however, they are foolish to obstruct scientific investigation.  Don't they want to know about their ancestors and where they came from.  I hope this helps ... the question is rather vague.
1175089
I think the author is trying to get across the idea that there was no big leap from our non-human ancestors to modern humans.  You can look at modern humans, and recognize them as modern humans, but if you look at our ancestors, say, 2 million years ago, you would not call them modern humans.  In between are a bunch of different hominid species, which, as you move closer and closer to us, look more and more human.  But there is no bright line, no point at which you can say "Ah, that population is defiantely the first population of humans".
29058
If you call occupation of territory settled by people and taking their land while denying them their rights or even treating them as humans civilized I guess the US must be the most barbarious civilization there is. People have been condemning the Nazis for trying to wipe out the Jews, well the Americans have suceeded even more by almost wiping out an entire nation of cultured people who were long settled in the continent with their own culture, law and government. So yes technically American Indians or more precisely the various tribes are the first people here and thus should be sovereign and even ruling the white man not vice versa as it is. They have more right to be called Americans than the rat tag bunch of colonials that arrived here and started a wave of slaughter and massacres such as the force eviction of tribes along the trail of tears, force evacuation and settlement of reservations, gifts of smallpox infested blankets in an effort in biological warfare, broken treaties and senseless wars and killings. Think about that.
632832
No they werent the records indicate that people migrated since there were people.  No country has an "indigenous" population, just earlier and later migrations.  The trick is for the indigenous population to preserve itself from the migrants.  The great wall of china is an example of this.  The Huns & Rome etc.
142376
The 'first' Native Americans migrated from the North,and it is speculated they 'rebounded to the North,encountering later tribes and groups,causing conflict in their midsts.Some may still be of record-Apache vs.native Mex-Indio tribes into the 1700-1800's. Many of the 'new' natives worked soft metals-gold,silver and possibly copper-and developed mines where mineral traces led into the earth.I would tend to believe these peoples did not develop 'hard' metallurgy,as the techniques were beyond access for mining,and thanks to Bessemer,We (us conquering Americans) only recently were able to produce steel,and tensile steel in any quantity.
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We humans are known as a "small species", rather as cheetahs are. We both went through a " bottle neck " event that reduced species size considerably. So that very few became the ancestors of very many.\n\nPS Cheetahs are a " smaller " species than humans are.
587709
Hard question to answer using only a few sentences, so pay attention in history class.\n\nAmericans originally came from England, - Explorers from Brittan came to America - then got tired of British rule and fought to keep the British away and we formed our own country.  (Remember when Crusty the Clown said we need guns to keep the Queen of England out of our face?)   Anyway - we formed the 13 original colonies, yada, yada.  The first American born President was actually the 8th President - \nMartin Van Buren, 8th President: 1837-1841.  The previous 7 were all born in England.  So basically the Eastern part of the Country was formed by a bunch of people from England/Great Brittan - the west however started to form during the gold rush era.  Mexicans & Indians lived out west, California was once a part of Mexico - then America won a war and took it from them.  All the while, lots of immigrants came into the counrty - arriving at Ellis Island in New York.  Lots of Irish & Italian and others.\n\nBut that's just my quick summary - take a history class.
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No American Indians are not myth.  They are of the human species just like you.  They are not extinct.\n\nThis is what the Smithsonian Institue says:\nThe American Indians are physically Mongoloids and thus must have originated in eastern Asia. The differences in appearance of the various New World tribes in recent times are due to (1) the initial variability of their Asian ancestors; (2) adaptations over several millennia to varied New World environments; and (3) different degrees of mixing in post-Columbian times with people of European, African, and Asian origins. Differences from their relatives in northeastern Asia are also due to changes in the latter populations after the separation. \n\nBering Strait, where the Eastern and Western Hemispheres face one another across a narrow strip of water, is the most likely place for migrating groups to have crossed into the New World. There is not sufficient evidence for immigration via other routes before the Norse arrivals in Greenland and Newfoundland about A.D. 1,000, and if indeed any other early voyages occurred, they were insignificant for the origins and composition of New World populations. \n\nJust when the Paleo-Indians--the first inhabitants of the Americas--entered the Americas is still under investigation. The prevailing theory calls for bands of interior hunters passing over the Bering Land Bridge, when sea levels were as much as 300 feet below at the end of the last Ice Age, and preceding through an "ice-free corridor" between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets to reach unglaciated lands to the south. Another theory calls for a coastal movement along the southern edge of the Land Bridge by early sea-adapted peoples. Certainly Paleo-Indians were well established south of the ice sheet by 12,000 years ago. Yet those probably were not the first arrivals. Sites and artifacts claimed to be older than this are gaining acceptance, but anything dated older than about 14,000 years ago, the date when rising sea levels submerged with Bering Land Bridge, separating Asia from the Americas, is still regarded with skepticism. However, some scholars do feel that humans were in North America at least by 20,000-25,000 years ago.\n\nAt no time, however, was the peopling of the New World a mass movement of people. More likely it was a trickle of small groups or bands entering from Asia over thousands of years. Among the last to arrive were the ancestors of the Eskimos who, settling along the Arctic coasts, effectively ended the migrations.
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By whom?  And do you actually mean the United States or do you mean North America?  \n\nMany anthropologists now believe that Asians crossed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago to become the first human settlers of North America.  The Vikings visited the coasts of Labrador, Newfoundland, and possibly the eastern seaboard hundreds of years before Columbus.  Portuguese and Spanish fishermen were fishing off the coast of Newfoundland long before 1492.  By anyone's definition, Columbus was a late-comer.  And in any event when he got to the coast of North America there were already people here, so he didn't actually "discover" it.
660377
the first immigrants were the "Native American Indians". They emmigrate from Asia walking throught Northern Asia, through Alaska & settle through out the Americas.
231984
Before anyone came to america, the native americans had their own tribes, and tribal rulers.\n\nHere's the Wikipedia entry for indigenous populations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_American_indigenous_peoples\n\nHowever if you are doing research, be sure to check several sources of information and don't  rely on just one source for all your information and conclusions.
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Even the "Native" Americans are immigrants.  They came from Asia about 14,000 years ago.  No humans evolved in the Americas.  All came from somewhere else.  Indeed, the only continent that has any "natives" at all is Africa, where humanity evolved.  They are immigrants everywhere else.