Why would one group be "indians" and not the other? I thought "indian" was a designation given by early explorers to the natives because they thought they were in India. Or is that just my public education showing?
There appears to have been a different race of people here prior to the migration of the people we call 'Indians' today. Today's 'Indians' replaced the previous group.
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."