sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal While the origin of Native American Indians is still a subject of great debate, several researchers have identified possible links between Native Americans and people from central Asia and from the Altai region. Connections Between Intercontinental Throat Singing Native Groups There are only two American languages families that have relationships with languages in Asia, Na-Dene and the Inuit related ones. Native Americans may have a more complicated heritage than previously believed. Any other Native Americans get Mongolian DNA? : r/23andme Accessibility For decades, scientists could describe the peopling of the Americas only in broad strokes, leaving plenty of mysteries about when and how people spread across the continents. Moreover, relatively small genetic distances and the sharing of several HLA haplotypes between Ainu and Native Americans suggest that these populations are descendants of some Upper Paleolithic populations of East Asia. Disclaimer. Joey still asks me to perform that task in the evening. These people, including tribes in Alaska, Canada and the Southwest, all speak a . google_color_link = "0000FF"; Did missionaries invent the Native American syllabaries? 2015 Oct 30;16:128. doi: 10.1186/s12863-015-0280-2. Only seven percent of the total Jomon and Ainu samples could be linked to non-Arctic Native Americans, considered the First Peoples.