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Many notable Eastern US Indians may look a little European to you. That is because during that era, English/French had already sprinkled there DNA into the pool. Plus, some believe that Northern Europeans may have co-mingled 1K years ago.
What interests me is that the oldest Archaeological sites are in the southern most part of South America....many state that those people may have come from the South Pacific. Most ancient Indian or Siberian American (to be PC consistent) evidence is at the bottom of the ocean as Indians did not recycle enough and the climate changed.

There were Caucasian populations in eastern Asia into historical times, e.g., the Tarim Basin mummies, who had European features and wore clothing similar to what was worn in neolithic Europe. The Tocharian languages, of the same Indo-European language family as English and Latin, were spoken in parts of western China until around 900 AD. There are still some instances of light eyed and brown or blond haired people, not of Russian origin, in western China, Mongolia, and the Central Asian republics formerly parts of the Soviet Union.

If there were European-like people in eastern Asia in prehistoric times and a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, as many suppose, they could have used this land bridge to migrate into the Americas as did those of Mongolian background. This may be more plausible than the suggestion that western Europeans, possibly like the Basques, migrated across the Atlantic via small boats.

Excellent point!!! I marvel at the range of knowledge I find on FR. Been around for a while but have noticed a general change in the level of discourse. Much briefer and much more crude and base. Kinda like our society.