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To: A Navy Vet

That’s what Native Americans are, indigenous. They are a genetic population that evolved in the New World. As far as populations worldwide go, they are very distinct and ancient.

In anthropology indigenous means first people to inhabit an area. It has nothing to do with how long they’ve been there.


11 posted on 05/06/2022 11:17:15 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Varda
"They are a genetic population that evolved in the New World."

They may have evolved, but they didn't spontaneously show up in the New World. It's my understanding that they originally came from Asia across the Bearing land bridge. I could be wrong.

13 posted on 05/06/2022 11:24:45 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: Varda

No, Indians did not evolve in the New World.

They came from the Asian steppes around 12,000 years ago.


26 posted on 05/07/2022 1:05:49 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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