• To see why the Indian researchers believed the acceptance of West Eurasian origins of present-day Hindus would be political explosive, it is important to understand the myth of racial purity that underlies the Hindu Nationalists' racist ideology. (riazhaq.com)
  • Using the largest multi-locus data set known to date, we investigated genetic differentiation of early modern humans, human admixture and migration events, and relationships among ancestries and language groups. (nature.com)
  • The term Amerindian, a portmanteau of "American Indian", was coined in 1902 by the American Anthropological Association. (wikipedia.org)
  • The name Kansas originates from the Kansa Amerindian tribe, who lived in the region until the 18th century. (ermakvagus.com)
  • There's also no shortage of dissenters ready to lynch you for daring to make such claims - I call dissenters belonging to Amerindian tribes members of the collective Ku Klux clan and non-Amerindian ones the Radical Anti-Indian Terrorists . (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • Genetic and archaeological studies have established a sub-Saharan African origin for anatomically modern humans with subsequent migrations out of Africa. (nature.com)
  • The best evidence supports 21 ancestries that delineate genetic structure of present-day human populations. (nature.com)
  • The new study,= shows that people moving into southern Britain around 1300-800 BC were responsible for around half the genetic ancestry of subsequent populations. (crystalinks.com)
  • Could there have been out-of-India migration that might explain common genetic origins of Indians and West Eurasians? (riazhaq.com)
  • New paper (behind paywall) Paternal origin of Paleo-Indians in Siberia: insights from Y-chromosome sequences by Wei et al. (indo-european.eu)
  • These three lineages for example, must have spread from West Asia but they are relatively less important in numbers in that region today, overshadowed by other lineages, notably J. Instead their derived branches had major impacts in other regions (Europe, South and Central Asia, Siberia and America). (blogspot.com)
  • Initial efforts to characterize the movement of early humans in relation to ancestry grouped populations according to five geographical regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/the Middle East/Central Asia/South Asia, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas 9 . (nature.com)
  • Further east Native Americans created ossuaries, collecting bones of the dead and stockpiling them in secondary burials. (virginiaplaces.org)
  • With his own hand, Morton had drawn a zero over the number 82 in a table that listed the cranial capacity of Native Americans. (michael1988.com)
  • I have family records through the Baker Rolls where it kept blood quantum of Native Americans. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • On page 320 of it, there is this: 'Today about 1 per cent of native Americans are the direct descendants of Xenia. (newnation.news)
  • And so by chance, because archaeologists and geneticists have chosen between 260 burial mounds from this period, they have chosen only 3-4 and have come across exactly this extremely ancient group, which is from the time before the Indo-European group was divided into Iranians, Indians and Slavs, they were still one people at the time with the same genomes. (blogspot.com)
  • the Indo-European group was divided into Iranians, Indians and Slavs, they were still one people at the time with the same genomes. (blogspot.com)
  • This is associated with the spread of pastoralism and dairying technologies, a different type of ancestry and possibly some of the Indo-European languages. (crystalinks.com)
  • By focusing on underlying ancestries rather than samples, confounding due to recent admixture is removed. (nature.com)
  • So for my inaugural Admixture Centrifuge series, this allowed me the perfect opportunity to examine how the Cherokee's Native American component breaks down on ethnicity admixture calculators. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • I also wanted to know if my client's admixture results could tell us anything about the Cherokee's ancient origins vis a vis did they migrate from Great Lakes region of US/Canada or had they been in the American Southeast for millenniums? (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • Human migration is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. (crystalinks.com)
  • Over the past several decades, scientists have been trying to pinpoint the time and place that humans first came to inhabit North America, as well as the manner of their arrival. (crystalinks.com)
  • Most in the community agree that the first humans to inhabit North America came from Eurasia, but when and how this happened is still debated. (crystalinks.com)
  • Application of the term "Indian" originated with Christopher Columbus, who, in his search for India, thought that he had arrived in the East Indies. (wikipedia.org)
  • They came from the haplogroup R1a, namely Z93, which is the haplogroup again of the Scythian, but more of the Indo-Aryan tribes, the future Indo-Aryans, who later conquered India. (blogspot.com)
  • But one of the tribes of the Yamna culture seems to have strayed and arrived in the Balkans instead of going to India. (blogspot.com)
  • Groups of traditionally higher social status in the Indian caste system typically have a higher proportion of ANI ancestry than those of traditionally lower social status, even within the same state of India where everyone speaks the same language. (riazhaq.com)
  • This is a possibility raised by Indian researchers in response to the inward migration of West Eurasians to India. (riazhaq.com)
  • The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecuador's ethnically diverse population, with most of its 17.8 million people being mestizos , followed by large minorities of Europeans , Native American , African , and Asian descendants. (cloudfront.net)
  • In the Amazon basin in present-day South America, some Indigenous peoples still live as hunter-gatherers while those in other regions may maintain their traditional lifestyles to a lesser extent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Male ancestors of the vast majority of present-day South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis) came from West Eurasia, Central Asia and Iran, according to the latest DNA research led by Harvard geneticist Dr. David Reich. (riazhaq.com)
  • Reich's team came to this conclusion after studying the Y-chromosomes of present-day Indians. (riazhaq.com)
  • No fewer than 48 authors and another 17 researchers, photographers and editors contributed to the 680-page Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton (Texas A&M University Press), the most complete analysis of a Paleo-American skeleton ever done. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Kennewick Man: The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton (Peopling of the Americas Publications) [Douglas W. Owsley, Richard L. Jantz] on Amazon.com. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • He didn't say anything about ancient DNA in Anatolia with Steppe ancestry. (blogspot.com)
  • PORTLAND -- Four Northwest Indian tribes have filed notice that they will appeal the ruling of a federal judge who rejected their request to rebury the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man. (newnation.news)
  • Some Hindu Indian scientists have used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) samples, extracted from the bones of recently discovered ancient skeletal remains of a couple in Rakigarhi in Haryana, to claim the local indigenous origins of all Hindus. (riazhaq.com)
  • With a view to trace the Mongol expansion in Tuvinian gene pool we studied two largest Tuvinian clans - those in which, according to data of humanities, one could expect the highest Central Asian ancestry, connected with the Mongol expansion. (indo-european.eu)
  • It is bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. (jrpavingandconstruction.com)
  • The surface of the land slopes gently downward from north to south, with the hilliest area in the northwest. (britannica.com)
  • Northwest tribes consider the bones sacred and want to bury them. (newnation.news)
  • Scientists can study the Kennewick Man 9,300-year-old remains found in Washington state despite the objections of some American Indian tribes, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. (newnation.news)
  • The Friends of America's Past website has posted --the opening appeals briefs (DOJ and Joint Tribes) and two of the three supporting amici briefs filed in their favor --the response briefs from the Scientists and seven supporting amici briefs --the final reply by the DOJ --the final replay Joint Tribes will be posted soon. (newnation.news)
  • Independent of self-identified ethno-linguistic labels, the vast majority (97.3%) of individuals have mixed ancestry, with evidence of multiple ancestries in 96.8% of samples and on all continents. (nature.com)
  • The flat grassland that the 19th-century settlers called the Prairie State has been transformed into a vital section of the North American continent. (britannica.com)
  • Using a graph-based model of gene flow to estimate migration events from ancestry-specific allele frequencies 37 , we find evidence for migration events in the distant past. (nature.com)
  • Based on DNA studies, Reich divides Indians into two major groups: Ancestral North Indians (ANI) and Ancestral South Indians (ASI). (riazhaq.com)
  • A slave state until the American Civil War, Tennessee was politically divided, with its western and middle parts supporting the Confederacy and the eastern region harboring pro-Union sentiment. (agreatertown.com)
  • They also implied that the suggestion of a migration from West Eurasia would be politically explosive. (riazhaq.com)
  • Migration has continued under the form of both voluntary migration within one's region, country, or beyond and involuntary migration (which includes the slave trade, trafficking in human beings and ethnic cleansing). (crystalinks.com)
  • The most obvious examples of easily-recognized Native American gravesites are the large earthen mounds constructed west of the Blue Ridge from Southwestern Virginia (including Ely Mound and Carter Robinson Mound in Lee County) through the Shenandoah Valley. (virginiaplaces.org)
  • However, there are many beautiful places to visit, especially if you are interested in the history of the American West. (ermakvagus.com)
  • Kansas is bordered by Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, Oklahoma to the south, and Colorado to the west. (ermakvagus.com)
  • Ekuatur Nunka ), [18] [19] is a country in northwestern South America , bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. (cloudfront.net)
  • However there is at least one West Asian sequence (from Turkey) which seems independent ("branch B"), while an Indian and the already mentioned Norwegian sequence could derive from either one. (blogspot.com)
  • Reich doubts it based on the absence of any ASI ancestry in West Eurasia. (riazhaq.com)
  • Reich's Indian counterparts were highly resistant to the Harvard team findings of foreign origins of modern-day South Asians. (riazhaq.com)
  • I received 20 plus percent of Native American DNA on my AncestryDNA results which wasn't a surprise being that my grandmother was 15/16 and 1/16 European. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • The Blue Ridge Mountains along the eastern border reach some of the highest elevations in eastern North America, and the Cumberland Plateau contains many scenic valleys and waterfalls. (agreatertown.com)
  • Ancestry data yield insight into a deeper past than linguistic data can, while linguistic data provide clarity to ancestry data. (nature.com)
  • In Europe, there have been two major migrations in the past 10,000 years. (crystalinks.com)
  • But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that found that federal grave-protection law does not apply because there is no evidence connecting the remains with any existing tribe. (newnation.news)
  • Kansas is a state in the Great Plains region of the United States of America. (ermakvagus.com)
  • It is the largest national producer of wheat, which is why it is known as the Wheat State and Breadbasket of America. (ermakvagus.com)
  • The name of the state comes from the Native American word Iliniwek, meaning "men. (britannica.com)
  • In addition to the nickname Prairie State, Illinois was called the Sucker State-a possible allusion to the seasonal migrations of southern Illinois miners to and from northern mines, much like the movements of spawning suckerfish. (britannica.com)
  • Its name derives from "Tanasi", a Cherokee town in the eastern part of the state that existed before the first European American settlement. (agreatertown.com)
  • Hundreds of years ago, the largest city north of Mexico was at Cahokia, now in Illinois. (britannica.com)
  • However, the majority of people just can't find that connection to the Cherokee or any other tribe (and you can read my blog Native American Is Not That Into You to explore reasons why). (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • The country is a founding member of the United Nations , Organization of American States , Mercosur , PROSUR , and the Non-Aligned Movement . (cloudfront.net)
  • Early fur trappers in the region altered the name with the French suffix ois to indicate "tribe," and it was later spelled Illinois. (britannica.com)
  • But in many if not most cases, NAGPRA representatives from tribes say that litigation takes place. (newnation.news)
  • I spent some time today looking at the haplotypes of this paragroup mentioned in the study and I could not reach a conclusion either: the majority of the sequences are from Europe and all them (excepting a highly derived Norwegian line and including a low derived Iranian one) seem to derive from a North German haplotype. (blogspot.com)
  • Tribes only need to make a request in order for identified funerary objects to be returned. (newnation.news)
  • This person was not interested in joining the Cherokee tribe (he was already a member) nor trying to prove if he was Native American (he already knew). (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)