What does native American look like actually?

[ibodi]

I am watching The shack, there is a indian princess who look like Asian. So It remind me of chinese.
Are they really chinese from shang dynasty but check google some of indian who look like white, are they Siberian?

[Anonymous]

It's said they emigrated from Asia over the berring so maybe northern Asian rather than chineese. I dont think it's as simple as that myself as there is likely much more we don't know than we actually know about the first people's of the Americas. It's possible around tens of thousand of years ago others from Europe, Africa and Polynesian islands settled in the Americas too.

Also Columbus wasn't the first to discover the Americas the Vikings were there before them, the Irish before them and others before them but it really wasn't before the age of exploration started by the Portuguese that the ships, technology and navigation knowledge needed to sail vast distances and bring people in such huge numbers existed apart from the Chinese. It's not a stretch to say the Chinese reached America as they long had the ships which dwarfed even 18th century European warships and there is records of a great Chinese expedition as far as Africa.
Columbus was supposedly looking for a route West to India but there's also the belief that Columbus gathered up old knowledge known by the vikings learned from his sailing trips to Ireland and Iceland. Icelanders certainly knew of a land to the west. Templars are supposedly to have known of a land to the west and after their fall the Templars rebranded themselves under different names such as the order of Christ in Portugal which was a major force in the age of exploration under it's master Prince Henry the navigator, they continued their war against Islamic countries doing more damage to the Muslim world than the crusades ever did. Anyway it was said Columbus stole maps from the order of Christ in Portugal.
The Italians cities like Florence, Naples, Venice etc likely pocessed maps locating America and maps of Africa built up over years of trade with the East but kept it secret as it would mean death to their trading empires if new trade routes to India and China were ever found, which is exactly what happened. It may not be a coincidence that the first explorers were all Italians in the service of non Italian powers. The ottomans supposedly knew where America was too as they had maps of it predating European exploration of it as well as maps locating the continent of Atlantis which is actually the Antarctica.

[Opinion Owner]

[ibodi]

It seem that the same argument in their context, there were chinese in 1852 ship to america, rely on current. Spanish found the chinese words in Maya culture that was what european had seen.

[Opinion Owner]

Well we know that Chinese treasure ships were charting new countries around China the early 1400s and maybe earlier. Chinese treasure ships were twice the size of the biggest ever European ships and capable of such a journey.
upload.wikimedia.org/.../Ming-Expeditions.svg
It's not just the Chinese but Africans too, according to the abstract of Columbus's log made by Bartolomé de las Casas, the purpose of Columbus’s third voyage was to test both the claims of King John II of Portugal that "canoes had been found which set out from the coast of Guinea [West Africa] and sailed to the west with merchandise" as well as the claims of the native inhabitants of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that "from the south and the southeast had come black people whose spears were made of a metal called guanín... from which it was found that of 32 parts: 18 were gold, 6 were silver, and 8 copper."

[ibodi]

Yeah The voyage seem to be like ming dynasty but I am talking about shang dynasy which was about 2500 BC. It is also match with the chinese words. due to war or was sent to seek a pill of long life... etc.

[Opinion Owner]

There was probably contact between eastern Siberian and Alaskan native populations the whole time anyway, the Berring strait is only 51 miles at its narrowest point.
upload.wikimedia.org/.../Bering_Strait.jpeg

[Twat_Twig]

Yep they came over from Asia. Back 10s of 1000s of years ago it was cold enough that there was an ice bridge connecting Alaska to Russia.

[Ultimate_Gohan]

Or maybe the continents were closer

[BlueCoyote]

@Ultimate_Gohan
Continents move much slower than that. The first humans arrived in North America around 14,000 years ago (late Paleolithic). This is an insignificant amount of time in regard to plate tectonics (America would have moved about 500 feet during that time). It takes hundreds of millions of years for tectonic plates to move towards or away from each other. Also, the North American plate is actually moving in a southwestern direction, which means it used to be further away from Russia/Asia back then.

[I_smell_Ducky]

Here, you may enjoy this. It's the first part of a documentary on human migration out of Africa.

https://youtu.be/Cd9sjZNfRCk

[ibodi]

I can not watch it due to authorization from BBC studios-.-

[I_smell_Ducky]

Huh. Okay. It's called "the incredible human journey" maybe you can find it another way. It's definitely worth a watch if you can.

[ibodi]

ok I get it now.

[I_smell_Ducky]

Enjoy.

[BlueCoyote]

This is an interesting but also a difficult question to answer because there are practically no pure-blooded Native Americans left. All the people you meet today who claim to be of Native American origin have at least half of their genes from some other ethnic group.
I don't know the series you're talking about but generally speaking, Hollywood doesn't do a very good job at authentically representing Native Americans. For one, they certainly don't/didn't look Chinese. There may be certain features that seem "asian" to you (such as the epicanthic eye fold) but that's because they aren't purely "asian" features, strictly speaking. Of course some Native American tribes did resemble people from East Asia, since that is where they originally came from. However, it has been over 10,000 years since the Americas were first populated and that's a long time. During these millennia, Native American developed into something "of their own".
It's also important to note that not all native Americans look the same. For example Native American in the Amazon region look vastly differently from those in the US. And the ones in the US look different again from the Inuit in norther Canada. Even among the different US-American tribes, there used to be quite a lot of diversity.

For example this guy was probably pure Native American:

I couldn't find a good photo of a Chinese man from the same period but suffice to say that Chinese people typically tend to have rounder faces, flatter/smaller noses, and generally more "soft" features.

[ibodi]

According to ancient books, especially these words appear in america.
and the chief in Arizona said they are chinese descendants from their legend.

[BlueCoyote]

I mean, that's not wrong in principle but you know how it is with legends... they're not actually science.

Also, one must ask what exactly "China" would mean here. When the first humans arrived in North America 14,000 years ago, they came from the Russian peninsula called Kamtchatka. Whether those people came from the south before that or whether they came from the southwest (Central Asia) is unknown. Also, you have to remember that Asia was incredibly sparsely populated at the time. It was basically a few thousand humans spread over millions and millions of square miles. So, there was no such thing as "China" yet. There was no distinct culture etc. Just a few small groups of humans traveling through an unimaginably vast continent.

[ibodi]

Yeah that is also interesting to process to the truth when seeking it on the half the load. If you say science that may start from why Asian gene on their body to track it but I dont hope like communist accept science that is the result of new movement. So they would cut off something out of the concept to ruin the society. Like if we take humen as a object to be science. like they can not see all spectrum and frequency Range but they prove those can't be seen to be wisdom. or you see we have nowadays but there are still tribes live their own way to repeat something. That may be slow compare the modern society as if back and white in USA still keep on. People may experience from dont know the concept to know the concept exist.
even finding love, I am wandering that they say italian literature only like describe humen see landscape then to find the soul on their body. so we can use attitude science to track it. what they experience to be a reference.

[madhatters4]

well they came from asia. but through hundreds of years of reproduction you are going to get varying looks. similar to why northern italians will often look drastically different than southern italians

[DiegoO]

The origin of Native Americans is diverse. Inuit and others came from North East Asia, when there was a geographical bridge that link Asia with North America.

Indigenous from parts of Central America/The Caribbean and bellow, until the far south (Tierra del Fuego) have been studied and according to those studies the indigenous of those regions are related to Polynesian people

What I mention have been actually proven and approved. There are others who claim Vikings settle in North America (true) and that not all of them went back to their homeland (doubtful). Some claim that Celts reach even before (doubtfulx10), and that the Templars Knights visited The Americas, and had it as a secret of state.

Of course we have other hipotesies that says the Egyptians and other African Empires had contact with The Americas long before Erick Erickson (doubtfulx10) arrival, and next ones who say China discovered North America west coast, before closing its doors to the world (very probable).

[DiegoO]

I think one of the reasons those other theories came afloat is due to the need of Euro, Afro, Asian descendants communities to feel an ancestral link with the land they live in, and live of.

[Evo6TommiMakinen]

Native Americans are migrated to America continent using Bering.
They are actually central Asian people and they are similar to Turks and Mongols.
Even native American language is very similar to languages like Turkish and Mongolian. There was a huge chance that they are ural altaic.

[Ultimate_Gohan]

Native Americans are actually Asians who travelled to alaska and then spread to the entire North America till they were killed by the European scums

[contentious]

I'm Native American. I have White looking skin, blue-green eyes, brown hair.

[ninaneedshelp]

they came over the Bering sea so yes it could very well be

[Aiko_E_Lara]

They look like Mongolians.

[ibodi]

That era what I said, basically china was not formed, great wall had not built.
Those historical records were kinda like myth to chinese but it is almost to make sure china has 5000 years due to Ruins. So maybe turk mongolian chinese were mixed to live.
They said Mongolian recognize their ancestor who was one of three emperors.
That three emperors were recognized common ancestors, the rest one is a ghost, He is one of chinese nation's ancestor so, that nation ask this ghost to be a king nowadays.

[ibodi]

Mongolian just turn to islam after going to west.

[TheSpartan]

They look a lot like Polynesians.

[ibodi]

Polynesian said they are chinese descendants👻

[TheSpartan]

Native Americans are close relatives of the East Asians. Genetic ancestry companies actually have a hard time differentiating between the two.

[Rissyanne]

That head dress is beautiful

[Poormanscomedian]

No No No