Indigenous People of America
The indigenous people of Americas are the pre-columbian inhabitants of the America, their descendants, and many ethnic gropup who identify with those peoples. They are referred to as native american, first nation, amergine. Geographical and historical mistake, Indians, now disambiguated as the American Indian race, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Red Indians.
history.
-Scholars who follow the Bering Strait theory agree that most indigenous peoples of the Americas descend from people who probably migrated from siberia across the Bering straits, anywhere between 9,000 and 50,000 years ago
- A 2006 study reported that DNA-based research had linked DNA retrieved from a 10,000-year-old fossil tooth from the Prince of Wales island in Alaska.Unique DNA markers found in the fossil tooth found only in these specific coastal tribes and were not compare to markers found in any other indigenous peoples in the Americas.
music and art.
-Indigenous peoples of Central Mexico and Central America music are often was pentatonic. Before the arrival of the Spaniards it was inseperate from religious festivities and include a large variety of percussion and wind instrument such as drums, flutes, sea snail shells (used as a kind of trumpet) and "rain" tubes
Sunday, October 11, 2009
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMERICA
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