Despite general resistence, representatives of tribes in the US recently gave their blessing for DNA analysis of the remains of a Stone Age child. Research conducted on the boy’s genes indicate that Native Americans have European roots.
Well, if they didn’t then, they do now.
There is a body of archeological evidence from eastern North American sites that point to an affinity for some eastern NA ancient cultures with ancient cultures in the south of France and nearby Euro regions. Its been hypothesized that these peoples arrived in NA along the edge of the ice age ice sheets when they were most southerly, working the ice and sea much like the Inuit have. It’s very likely that NA has ancient colonizations from both west and east (and perhaps south, too). Then there is the myth that colonization stopped with the arrival of the first white Europeans…
I wonder what the impact on First Nations land claims will be? Or, will Germany claim North America? All sorts of questions.
“Shane Doyle, a member of the Crow Nation…”
Why do DNA analysis? That sounds Irish to me.
Could we dream of being treated equally in Canada even just for a few days until the idle s’mores remind us that they and only they are aboriginal to North America.
Did wide screen TVs come from Europe?
Everybody out of the gene pool! Back to Africa !
Oh heaven’s we can’t have any new scientific data disputing the carefully crafted narrative of pre and post colonial history which the wealth redistribution industry use to extort perpetual race-based welfare. Shocka!
This genetic evidence disrupts the established PC folktale of white privilege – a genetic link to this oppressor group soils the cultured political purity of the original victimization group.
got land?
To coin a phrase from another perpetually disadvantaged group, “Science beez rayciss”.
I blame the Vikings. It was a long voyage.
DNA is unnecessary.. European characteristics in Native North Americans is there for the eye to see.. If your willing to look.. Just as Polynesian characteristics are there in South American Native people..
The lost history should include both..
Uncomfortable problems with the history book..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wg7rxZxfyg
Ancient trade routs that we don’t have a clue about..
Yeah well, a while back, somebody found a recent (1000 years maybe) genetic link to Scandinavians in the Tlingit of the Alaska panhandle…..causing speculation that the long lost Western Settlement of Viking Greenland had negotiated the NW Passage and resettled there….
Then somebody pointed out the Tlingit cultural anomaly….they are the only FN who made chests before colonial contact.
This not a trivial matter. Vikingr ships lacked rowing benches….the Vikingr sat on their sea chests to row. The provision of chests enabled easier transit overland (portage)….making handling of contents convenient for lightening ships for beaching/portage/careening.
The tradition of maritime Sea Chests with Europeans traces back a millennia or more to the Vikingr and continues to an extent to today.
Then there’s that fella’s grave in Wiltshire (near Stonehenge) whose remains indicate he originated in the Pyrenees.
I figure the ancients were a lot more mobile than previously thought.
Does this mean we can all claim Metis Status and be exempt from the filthy White-man’s Law & Taxation.
Good find…..OUTSTANDING!
So will President Hillary Clinton order the Army Corps of Engineers to bury the DNA evidence under a 1,000 tons of concrete???
And, bazinga! Fearless Leader at 8:28
Very interesting – The Native American as conquering imperialists! I always thought of them as a grabbing bunch – the term “Indian Giver” is perhaps not so far off -certainly not racist.
This is unlikely to have happened in Canada. All such artifacts, even if found on private land, belong to the government.
At last, a “native” tribe gives permission for DNA analysis and BINGO, history gets revised, if not rewritten. Now well past time for the western Washington tribes to allow testing of Kennewick man. Problem is, they want to maintain their status and the myth of their origins. And rather than upset them, we ignore the science.
More Shane Doyles are obviously needed.
My wife and I had our DNA analyzed and it proved to be quite interesting. There is native blood on her side but not as much as once thought (those horny voyagers, eh) but what was interesting was the paths that all ended back in Africa. Yes, the Siberian land bridge has played a part in civilization.
I have said it for a long time now: they are not “native” or “indigenous”, they are pre-columbian.
So our “First Nations” were neither “First”, or “Nations”.
Well which story is right then..you decide
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ancient-toddler-s-remains-re-ignite-native-origins-debate-1.2534423
Plus I found this one a couple years ago. We are all immigrants of opportunity. Time to tax them like everyone else. First nations my ash.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html
Maybe we should remind them that the only difference between them and us is how we arrived here. Get a life, get a job and get out of our wallets.
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/61062-native-americans-traced-to-siberian-mountains
People have no idea just how far flung people went for metal or goods.
Most of Michigan’s copper was already looted before the White man got here.
Funny how European bronze age objects have the same impurities as the copper in that State. Up to 99 percent. It took about 500 years of mining to get at the ore. from the slag tracings.
Silk was always a good trade item. We know the Chinese imported it to Europe from vast differences.
The science is settled. Let the dismantling of the reservations and the Indian Act begin.
I’m building a casino!
So that means we are just reclaiming lands that the so-called ‘native’ Canadians stole from our ancestors? I demand an apology and reparations! I wonder if my ancient cousins where forced into residential schools for assimilation?