How did the Native Americans get to Americans?

Answer 1

Beringia or "Clovis First" Theory:

During the Ice Age, the water levels lowered, and the Bering Strait was all land, connecting Asia and North America. Some people belive that a group of people from Asia were out hunting animals, and followed them all the way over the Bering Strait, and to North America. Over time, The native Americans spread out all over North America, and when the Ice Age was over, and the water levels began to rise, The Bering strait was no longer land.

Coastal Migration and Solutrean Theory:

When glacial sheets covered most of North America, including the the area of the modern day Bering Strait, it is believed that Asian seagoing people could have traveled along the face of the glacier across the North Pacific to the shores of today's Canadian and US coast, or that Europeans may have followed the ice pack across the North Atlantic. The existence of archaeological evidence such as Kennewick Man (discovered in Washington state), indicate Caucasoid/Oriential population as early as 7600 BCE where none should have been by the traditional Beringia paradigm. The level of sophistication of the Kennewick remains and artifacts do not account for a "Clovis First" paradigm. Strong similarities between ancient European and Native American tools of the same periods when no contact has been clearly identified suggests that populations in the Western Hemisphere may have learned technology from those in Europe, or brought it with them when migrating from there.

Ancient Forerunners:

Clovis First theories have been tested and debated for the past thirty or so years. Archeological evidence that directly refutes the First Peoples having populated the Western Hemisphere via the Bering land bridge exclusively exists because of sites such as:

• Pedra Fueda in Brazil that may be as old as 60,000 years;
• Cueda Fell in Patagonia, Chile that parallels the time of the Clovis culture (in a place that by Clovis First could not possibly have existed);
• the Monte Verde (Chile) site predates Clovis dates by a thousand years;
• human remains at the Topper, South Carolina site date back as far as 20,000 BCE;
• Paisley Caves, Paisley, Oregon shows evidence of human remains and habitation that parallels that of Monte Verde, Chile; again, predating Clovis by a thousand years;
• Buttermilk Creek, Salado, Texas has been confirmed to date as far back as 15,000 BCE in an area that has been almost continuously inhabited since that time.

Alternate Possibilites:

Ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl theorized that ancient populations of fair-skinned people lived near the Incans in Peru, as related in Kon-tici legends. From descriptions given by early Conquistadors, Heyerdahl built a raft with native materials and sailed from the coast of Peru to Raro-nuku, Tuamotus, in French Polynesia over 4,900 miles west. Heyrdahl proved that sailing to the Western Hemisphere was possible for ancient people, and could have been a means of early migration. Heyrdahl conducted two other expeditions beginning in Morocco, with the intent of proving that people of North Africa and the Middle East could just as easily have migrated to South America. The Ra expedition failed in 1969, however Ra II was an undeniable success when the papyrus boat made it from Morocco to the island of Barbados. Heyrdahl's methods were more scientific, although his impetus and the motivation for his theories rose directly from legends and folklore.

The Beringia and Clovis First Theories have been mainstays of modern archaeology for decades, and served the purpose of scientific discussion well. There comes a time when evidence outweighs loyalty to any school of thought. As evidence mounts, the earlier theories become less and less salable. Improved methods and technological advancements in the fields of modern day archaeology and anthropology are making better investigation possible and are resulting in more accurate information on which stronger theories can be built.

Answer 2

The Natives from the northern tips of Alaska down to the southern tip of Chile were constantly traveling, trading, living, reproducing, and existing side by side and intermingling. The only history which is limited or even false is printed in nonnative books by nonnatives who do not know the real story of the Turtle continents. When the weather changed the Natives such as the Incas, Mayans, etc., simply moved to better areas for survival. Just check out the powwow trail, one can see how Natives mix with one another; see how there is a feeling of kinship, of oneness at a Native gathering. Even the Aleuts were constantly moving from island to island; it's when the nonnatives came that they were "classified" as this race or that race or from that "origin" or place. To the nonnative time stands still or remains in a box with regard to categorization; to the Native, "We are all related" or "Mitakuye Oyasin," meaning: everything and everyone is related, one way or another. Peace my Sisters and Brothers. We all have origin or creation stories.

The above is the white man's version how Native Americans got to America. The

Navajo version is we "Dine" (which we prefer to be called) have always been here. We emerged from underworld. First we were some kind of animals, but somewhere we turned into humans. Dine' were the first to become humans.