What is the origins of native north americans?

Question

are they native to this land or not???

Answer 1

it is said that they crossed the bering straight when it connected asia to north america. Then they started slowly migrating south. I'm 75% indian and my dad is full so im a scalping savage

Answer 2

It depends on how far back you want to take it.  Ultimately, human kind came out of Africa.  There were no humans in Asia, Europe, North and South America.  Most Aboriginal Americans probably originated in Asia, but there's some recent science which suggests that there may have been colonization of the North American continent from European lines, as well, either over a similar ice bridge running from what is today the UK to Iceland and Greenland and into what is today Maratime Canada, or else also coming across the Berring Sea ice bridges.  The little study that was performed on Kennewick Man and some studies done on Clovis Points seems to suggest this European colonization may have happened at around the same time as the well established Asian colonization.

Answer 3

We were created on THIS continent.  Our histories on THIS continent go back over 30,000 years and now some scientists say it could be as long as 50,000 years.  That is long before any ice/land bridge from Asia.  And don't pull that DNA card out of your back pocket either.  DNA testing hasn't PROVEN anything about where we come from.  

If you go back far enough we all share certain DNA markers, after all we all come from Mother Earth...

Answer 4

Between 10 and 20k years ago, they crossed a land bridge over the Behring strait. They moved south through what is now Alaska and Canada into the rest of N. America.

They are the original indigenous people on the N. American continent.

Ablex is completely correct. If you define "native" as "where a species developled", then Humans are "native" to Africa.

Answer 5

I actually saw a show on the National Geographic channel that said all humans migrated from Africa. Some stayed some didn't stay.

Native Americans migrated from Asia to America before any others did.

Answer 6

Define "native".

Humans originated in Africa, so are we all native to Africa?  

Those people that were living in North America before the arrival of the European explorers came from Asia.

Answer 7

There have been reports/studies that say they might have migrated here from Asia using the Bering Strait (B/t Alaska and Russia/Siberia.)