it amuses me that the origin of Native Americans has always been supposed to be from the Old World - the premise seeming to be that because the ‘New” world and it's people were unknown and not a part of "history" that the people here then could not have been native to the the Americas, but must have come from the ‘known world.’
Same with the Bering Straight theory. The Inuits are more like the Mongols of the Steppes than the Natives of the lower Americas and well may be related to the Mongols. HOWever - Could the migration not have gone in the other direction just as easily?
I don’t find it amusing. I find it stupid, insulting, and ignorant.