Pacific Islanders or Native Americans?
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It's all in the DNA, FFA and DILLIGAF
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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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I wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayfair, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots.\n\nst
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I know we are part Indian from Florida Kentucky Alabama. Georgia \nnorth Carolina Regine was told Samoan is heritage
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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.
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FIRST THANK YOU. The Indians were not Native to America. Evolution has it that everyone came from Africa. do we know that as fact? No. But that is getting off the question. Thank you again for clarifying that Indians are not native.
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It depends on the person.  I'm not offended by being called Indian, becuase I know that that is how most people know my people.  I just think that native american shows more respect because it calls to mind the fact that we were originally on this land before the europeans and the struggles that we went through.
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A difficult question to ask.  Generally, the American Indian, or Native American, would be the most likely candidate.  However, their ancestors arrived here via the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska not once, but three times.\nNow scientists speculate, and with some evidence, that early Europeans arrived here across the icefields of the Atlantic Ocean during the last major ice age, about 10,000 years ago.\nSo who is truly American?  Whoever is born here, I guess.
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Negative, always negative!\n\nLook at what happened to the Native Americans in N. & S. America and what's even more sad, look at what they did to the Filipinos, some of them are too brainwashed and stupid to not know they are Asians making them think they are Pacific Islanders or Hispanics (Hispanics are of mixed Native American decendants) when it is clear they are related to the Malays and Indonesians!
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woohoo finally someone has the same thoughts on this as i do.... hello people every history book will tell you that the native Americans where here first and that the Europeans ran them out of all their homes... yes, Mexicans came and did the same to the Indians when they took over Arizona, new Mexico and California but seriously how much better is white people than brown people if they both stole this land from the true natives??\n\nedited-what I'm saying is yes the Indians where here first but i do not agree with new immigrants or Americans taking advantage of welfare.. i have three children and can't get any help to send them to preschool because my husband  makes a HAIR more than the limit. now my oldest son is behind in kindergarten. \nI'm not trying to contradict myself i just don't like to hear white people say they where here first. and i don't like the fact that because people don't work they get hand outs, and the middle class can't get any help at all...\n\nedited- i don't get what is this discussion about dirty jobs? i love the show but i don't understand what you are all talking about? email me..thanks in advance..
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A sovereign Native American tribe.
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The Pacific Islands are not at all being thought of or cared about by the biggest polluting big countries.  They don't even care about their own people and country so why do you expect them to care for the little islanders.
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The native Americans.
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the first immigrants were the "Native American Indians". They emmigrate from Asia walking throught Northern Asia, through Alaska & settle through out the Americas.
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Asian Americans are good for people from oriental descent. American Indian is more difficult to evaluate but is good for Native Americans. Hispanic according to what they told me is for people that descend from countries colonized by Spain or Spain.
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I'd say,"wot the hell you talkin about"? Sorry, a model of what? Asian Americans are just Americans with an ethnic background.Pacific Island Americans the same.Same as here in Australia we are all from an ethnic background,unless you have indigenous blood.We may not like it but its reality.
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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.