Native American Migration from Russia to Iceland (Part XXII)

One (incorrect) theory states that the Thules on the west coast of Greenland gave rise to the Inuit and I believe this is incorrect. I do not believe that the Thules traveled from Greenland around the Arctic Circle clockwise and ended up in Iceland.The Thules seem related to the Inuit, but not to the Koreans; whereas Inuit peoples are genetically related to some degree to all the other peoples around the Arctic Circle. Given this, I think the People of the North are the originals - not of all mankind, but once they reached the North, they commanded the Arctic Circle genetically.

Interestingly, most People of the North and Native American Nations use names for their own tribes that mean "the people", "the first people", "the Real people". etc. The Korean term "han" translates as "the people", but with an additional sense or shading to suggest "the first and only people."

The People of the North, whom I have discussed for a considerable number of years, number at least 41 separate nations or tribes. These nations migrated in order to find additional sources of food and habitation, just as other First Nations around the world have done for over 6,000 years of recorded history at least. The difference is that they began their migrations along the Arctic Circle and seem to have not ventured southward until they reached Alaska.

From Alaska, they fanned out in separate groups and finally reached the tip of South America, migrated back up into the Ohio Valley and met the Europeans that drove them back. One exception were the Mohawk Nation and other Iroquois, who assimilated large numbers of themselves into European-American society and became successful in business.

The People of the North that became Canada's First Nations seem to have journeyed all the way to the east coast and then further to Greenland and finally to Iceland, where they intermarried with the Northern Europeans/Scandinavians. The Saami of Norway, pictured above, are an indigenous people that that are ancestors to some Native Americans and they may have migrated north east and west.

What is certain is that the ancestral nation-tribes of today's Native American Nations live completely around the Arctic Circle. This is borne out by DNA evidence that also shows shared DNA between Iroquois (e.g. Mohawk) and Zulu nations, which also in some locales share the same word for "cousin." Another certainty is that Native Americans and Asians such as the Japanese metabolize alcohol similarly to one another, but differently from Europeans. This is a further genetic link.

Foundation stories and myths are similar all around the Arctic Circle. For example, the reindeer that pulls the sun up in the east in Scandinavia and Siberia becomes a dragon in Korea and once again a reindeer, elk, or bison in North America. The turtle is prominent in helping to form the earth in both some Asian as was as some Native American histories. Lingusitics is another tacker of relatedness and we find similarities in various language elements among the various related People.

In summation, the Arctic Circle gave us our Native American Nations all around the globe through the ancestry lines of the Indigenous Peoples thaty include at least:

• The People of the North,
• Canadian First Nations,
• Native American and South American Nations,
• Intermarriage with Pacific Islanders,
• Intermarriage with Europeans,
• Small migrations into and intermarriage in Africa.

As DNA Mapping is pursued further by Universities in Illinois and by the Smithsonian Institute, we are gaining more usable information day by day.

Questions that arise include:

• Where is the information about a New Zealand tribe that is unrelated to the rest of current humans?
• Are the Basque people significantly different genetically than any other group of humans on earth?
• Are the Native Americans correct in saying "All My Relations" - all people and all living things are related genetically? This becomes increasingly interesting in light of the fact that scientists have determined that humans share a common ancestor not only with the ape world but with ... the SEA ANENOME! That would be quite an ancestor.

A final Hub in this series will discuss the physical characteristcs of the descendants of Native Americans. This is helpful, because many people do not know that they have such a heritage.

Notice the similarities in the accompnying pictures of different cultures.

See the similarities of dress between the Zulu and the Mohawk shown to the right. There are other similarities as well.

Both nations also often used a ball of short feathers with 1-3 long feathers sticking straight up out of it at the crown of the head.

While many natives have taken Caucasian names, they have retained their own as well.

Chief and Dr. Steve Silverheels is a Seneca and Mohawk that operates a healing ministry. He comes from a famous line:

His father, Jay Silverheels, was Tonto in the Lone Ranger series on radio and TV. Another relative, Chief Trainer Halftown starred in Pony Express.

Chief Corn Planter was a Seneca War Chief, and the ancestor Prophet Handsome Lake, who accepted Christ.