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.