I got indian in my family

[ProvocativeElement]

Who saw African American Lives last night?

they did some research, ran dna and crunched numbers - come to find out only the tiniest fraction of African American's have Native American heritage.

[Bill Blake]

Who saw African American Lives last night?

they did some research, ran dna and crunched numbers - come to find out only the tiniest fraction of African American's have Native American heritage.

Primarily those in the Seminole Tribe I would guess?

[liL Ray]

haven't we beat this horse already?

[ProvocativeElement]

Primarily those in the Seminole Tribe I would guess?

they named no tribe - more than anything , they stressed how the majority of people believed this when nothing could be further than the truth.
(don't quote me but) I believe the percentage was under well under 10% and even then it was only a fraction of the genetic make-up.

runaway slaves were more often returned to their owners (for rewards) than they were welcomed into native american communities

[wiz247]

Dark skinned wif good hur!!

[mhd]

they named no tribe - more than anything , they stressed how the majority of people believed this when nothing could be further than the truth.
(don't quote me but) I believe the percentage was under well under 10% and even then it was only a fraction of the genetic make-up.

runaway slaves were more often returned to their owners (for rewards) than they were welcomed into native american communities

you would have to look at individual tribal behavior to validate these statements given their vast diversity

[ProvocativeElement]

you would have to look at individual tribal behavior to validate these statements given their vast diversity

maybe so - however my statements are based on the research of the Native American Historian and the DNA trials they ran . . .

[panklady]

Didn't see the special. Sorry. But I always discount the statement "I got Indian in my family" UNLESS folk say..."my great Grandmother etc."...

We are all hybrids when it comes down to it...get over it.

And what burns my a** (See?) when folk talk about the Indian thing when it comes to hair. You know good 'n dayum well it is Ultra-Perm. LOL

[upliftdisco365]

Who saw African American Lives last night?

they did some research, ran dna and crunched numbers - come to find out only the tiniest fraction of African American's have Native American heritage.

Not at the laundromat...

[Martin Red]

haven't we beat this horse already?

giddy up :)

[Martin Red]

"There's been a lot of arguing over the last ten years, but it's now more or less agreed that about 80 percent of Britons' genes come from hunter-gatherers who came in immediately after the Ice Age," Miles said.

These nomadic tribespeople followed herds of reindeer and wild horses northward to Britain as the climate warmed.

"Numbers were probably quite small—just a few thousand people," Miles added.

These earliest settlers were later cut off as rising sea levels isolated Britain from mainland Europe.

New evidence for the genetic ancestry of modern Britons comes from analysis of blood groups, oxygen traces in teeth, and DNA samples taken from skeletal remains.

Ice Age hunter-gathers also colonized the rest of northwest Europe, spreading through what are now the Netherlands, Germany, and France. But Miles said differences between populations can be detected in random genetic mutations, which occurred over time.

The most visible British genetic marker is red hair, he added. The writer Tacitus noted the Romans' surprise at how common it was when they arrived 2,000 years ago.

"It's something that foreign observers have often commented on," Miles said. "Recent studies have shown that there is more red hair in Scotland and Wales than anywhere else in the world. It's a mutation that probably occurred between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0719_050719_britishgene.html

[Ayo]

If you are interested in doing your own research, I offer some aid: http://www.geneaus.com/nativeamericangenealogy.htm

I usually dismiss anyone who will say they are part "Indian" until they at least give me some resources.

[Ayo]

"There's been a lot of arguing over the last ten years, but it's now more or less agreed that about 80 percent of Britons' genes come from hunter-gatherers who came in immediately after the Ice Age," Miles said.

These nomadic tribespeople followed herds of reindeer and wild horses northward to Britain as the climate warmed.

"Numbers were probably quite small—just a few thousand people," Miles added.

These earliest settlers were later cut off as rising sea levels isolated Britain from mainland Europe.

New evidence for the genetic ancestry of modern Britons comes from analysis of blood groups, oxygen traces in teeth, and DNA samples taken from skeletal remains.

Ice Age hunter-gathers also colonized the rest of northwest Europe, spreading through what are now the Netherlands, Germany, and France. But Miles said differences between populations can be detected in random genetic mutations, which occurred over time.

The most visible British genetic marker is red hair, he added. The writer Tacitus noted the Romans' surprise at how common it was when they arrived 2,000 years ago.

"It's something that foreign observers have often commented on," Miles said. "Recent studies have shown that there is more red hair in Scotland and Wales than anywhere else in the world. It's a mutation that probably occurred between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0719_050719_britishgene.html

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Hey Martin, you can find the whole 13 or 14 part series on YouTube called Journey of Man http://youtube.com/results?search_query=journey+of+man&search_type=

It discusses how man originated from the San tribe (all men!) from there migrated to Australia (Aborigines) to India to Central Asia, and then to Siberia, etc. then over to North America where the Native Americans come in to play. The first "White" person coming from one gene trace in one of the "stan" places in Asia (Afghanistan maybe).