What race are American Indians?

The results support the general view that the ancestry of the American Indian is predominantly Mongoloid
Mongoloid
Mongoloids are a cluster of all or few individuals aboriginal to East Asia, Southeast Asia, North Asia, the Arctic, Central Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. This population frequently share specified traits, such as epicanthic folds, sino- or sundadonty, shovel-shaped incisors, and neoteny.
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. Using 30,000 years as the separation time between the American Indian and Mongoloid, the divergence time between the three major races of man was estimated to be 33,000-92,000 years.
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What nationality is Native American?

Native American, also called American Indian, Amerindian, Amerind, Indian, aboriginal American, or First Nation person, member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, although the term often connotes only those groups whose original territories were in present-day Canada and the United States.
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What race are indigenous peoples?

Indigenous peoples of the United States are commonly known as Native Americans, Indians, as well as Alaska Natives. The term "Indian" is still used in some communities and remains in use in the official names of many institutions and businesses in Indian Country.
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What are the 5 races?

OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
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What is the oldest race in the world?

A new genomic study has revealed that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth, with ancestries stretching back roughly 75,000 years.
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What are the 6 human races?

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's classification, first proposed in 1779, was widely used in the 19th century, with many variations.
  • the Ethiopian/black race.
  • the Caucasian race/white race.
  • the Mongolian/yellow race.
  • the American/red race.
  • the Malayan/brown race.
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Who did Native Americans descend from?

Genetic analysis of ancient teeth and bones suggests Native Americans largely descend from a vanished group called the Ancient Paleo-Siberians.
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What do Native Americans call themselves?

The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name. In the United States, Native American has been widely used but is falling out of favor with some groups, and the terms American Indian or Indigenous American are preferred by many Native people.
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Why do Native Americans call themselves Indian?

American Indians - Native Americans

Whether from confusion or romanticism, "Indian" is a word of illusion, not a description of reality. But the word has stuck. It is commonly used by indigenous peoples of this continent to refer to themselves in a generic way, as a supplement to their real names.
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What race is Native Americans closely related to?

Genetically, Native Americans are most closely related to East Asians and Ancient North Eurasian. Native American genomes contain genetic signals from Western Eurasia due in part to their descent from a common Siberian population during the Upper Paleolithic period.
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Where did American Indian DNA come from?

Most Indigenous American groups are derived from two ancestral lineages, which formed in Siberia prior to the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 36,000 and 25,000 years ago, East Eurasian and Ancient North Eurasian.
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What is Indian DNA ancestry?

Most Indian groups descend from a mixture of two genetically divergent populations: Ancestral North Indians (ANI) related to Central Asians, Middle Easterners, Caucasians, and Europeans; and Ancestral South Indians (ASI) not closely related to groups outside the subcontinent.
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Is it OK to say Indian instead of Native American?

American Indian, Indian, Native American, or Native are acceptable and often used interchangeably in the United States; however, Native Peoples often have individual preferences on how they would like to be addressed. To find out which term is best, ask the person or group which term they prefer.
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Who were the first people in America?

In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13,000 to 13,500 years ago. These people, the first North Americans, were known collectively as Clovis people.
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Do Native Americans pay taxes?

Members of a federally recognized Indian tribe are subject to federal income and employment tax and the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), like other United States citizens.
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How did Indians get to America?

The ancestors of the American Indians were nomadic hunters of northeast Asia who migrated over the Bering Strait land bridge into North America probably during the last glacial period (11,500–30,000 years ago). By c. 10,000 bc they had occupied much of North, Central, and South America.
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What is a Native American girl called?

In most colonial texts squaw was used as a general word for Indigenous women.
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Which state has the most Native Americans?

Alaska, Oklahoma and New Mexico have the highest population share of American Indians and Alaska Natives, according to new census figures. Nov. 26, 2021, at 7:30 a.m.
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Who has the oldest bloodline in America?

A Native American man in Montana has the 'oldest' human DNA in the USA, according to news reports. The company Cellular Research Institute (CRI) Genetics, said it had traced the mitochondrial DNA of Darrell 'Dusty' Crawford back 55 generations, with an unusually high 99 percent accuracy rate.
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Did Native Americans come from China?

Native Americans may have originated from China, says new study on 14,000-year-old human fossils. The journal “Current Biology” published the study on July 14, which stated that the discovered fossils are thought to belong to an extinct maternal branch to which Native Americans are also possibly related.
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Are Eskimos Native Americans?

Eskimos are racially distinct from American Indians, and are not, as previously believed, merely “Indians transformed.” In fact, the Eskimos are most closely related to the Mongolian peoples of eastern Asia. Eskimos consider themselves to be “Inuit” (The People).
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Is human DNA the same in all races?

The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 confirmed humans are 99.9% identical at the DNA level and there is no genetic basis for race.
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What are the 5 races of men?

Races of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroes & Iron • Gold: no labour • Silver: children for 100 years • Bronze: violent, self-destructive • Heroes: age of Theban and Trojan wars • Iron: criminal, impious, constant labour = now - and it will get worse….
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Are all humans the same species?

The billions of human beings living today all belong to one species: Homo sapiens. As in all species, there is variation among individual human beings, from size and shape to skin tone and eye color.
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What religion is Native American?

Early European explorers describe individual Native American tribes and even small bands as each having their own religious practices. Theology may be monotheistic, polytheistic, henotheistic, animistic, shamanistic, pantheistic or any combination thereof, among others.
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