Richard, Could you send us a link to the article on the Polynesian Dna? ----- Original Message ----- From: <TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com> To: <creek-southeast@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:49 AM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Kennewick Man > Is the European nat. am., the Kinnewick man? > > > Again, I am not an anthropologist, but an architect-planner, who > specializes in historic & prehistoric architecture & town planning. Keep > in mind > that at least 95% of the indigenous people of the Southeast were killed > off > by European plagues, slavery and military actions. Many ethnic groups > were > wiped out completely. Who knows what genetic traits were also wiped out > at that time? > >>From what I read, Kenniwick man was probably related to the Ainu > Aborigines of Japan. Makes sense. If the Ainu's ancestors could sail > from Korea > or China to the Japanese Islands, they certainly could island hop around > the > Pacific Rim to North America. > > Also, the oldest skeletons being found in Mexico are Polynesians. > There > was an ethnic group living in Baha California, whose traditions and > physical features were different than the American Indians in the main > part of > Mexico. They quickly died off due to Spanish induced diseases. > > I understand that it is quite common for people in Georgia, South Carolina > and Florida of Creek descent to have a trace of Polynesian DNA. This is > probably because their ancestors came from Mexico. Were the original > Muskogeans in Mexico of mixed Polynesian-AmerInd descent? Did they > leave > Mexico because they were ethnically different than the majority? . . . > but > again, no one really knows for sure at this time. > > Richard T. > Notes on the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > > Early Creek History > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > > Migration Legend of the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >