Posted on 06/07/2008 8:29:49 AM PDT by blam
Jeez. That’s almost as bad as the White Man, and his Manifest Destiny to overcome all Peoples. *sheesh*
What a flustercluck that turned out to be.
Quite possibly. They are certainly light-skinned, as the picture shows. Some have red or brown hair and green or blue eyes. 
Some experts think they are related to Kennewick Man.
There are also disputed traces of early white people in parts of China.
Those, I believe, are the Tocharians (AKA Yuezhi), who are thought to have spoken an Indo-European language distantly related to Latin.
I don't think the Ainu language is Indo-European.
-ccm
The Jomon and/or the Emeshi are believed to be the ancestors of the Ainu. The oldest Jomon skeleton ever found in Japan is 13,000 years old.
The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu
BTW, the oldest pottery ever found comes from Japan.
I din’t even no dat was bein’ filmed the day tree of my buddies and I were sittin’ around talkin’ ‘bout daBears.
Yep. Far more effective to destroy them by making them wards of the state.
140 years ago?
I thought it was more like 3,000.
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“The North American Indians of Japan - if a genetic comparison is done, it is highly likely the Ainu will turn out to be similar to the Inuit and the Native American and Native Canadian indigenous people.”
From what I’ve read in the past, the Ainu are Caucasian.
“It has long been suggested that the Ainu may be white caucasians,”
That’s what I’d read as well. The American Indian is Asian, the Ainu is Caucasian.
The Ainu relocated to Hokkaido and other Northern islands shortly after the Japanese emperor managed in the 1300s to finally conquer the last Emeshi, the modern name for the original inhabitants called the Jomon.
The Emeshi had been gradually converted into a warrior class called the Samurai. They were relocated from the Northern islands to Fukuoka as a sort of Samurai Central where they could be dispatched to the wealthiest cities and prefectures of Japan to enforce the Emperor's rules.
Shortly after the Emeshi were evacuated from the Northern Islands the Ainu took their opportunity to move inn.
As far as being related to the American Indians is concerned, the Yakut people, who conquered Korea and japan in the 6th century, are close relatives.
The Emperor and his relatives (the hereditary daimyo, the imperial families, etc.) (a whale of a lot of people in Japan), are descendants of the Yakut. So it'd be the Emperor who is the relative of the Indians, the Ainu who are not!
Ditka..
The two East Asian "races" are represented by the Jomon/Ainu/Emeshi/Samurai on one side and the Chinese/Tibetan/Malay/Thai on the other.
What that means is that any particular Ainu is more closely related to any particular Chinese than either is related to an Englishman.
Are there other indigenous grups in Japan?
“Ditka..”
My favorite Ditka picture is him giving the finger to the reporter.
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