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Native Americans and other Indigenous People: Tracing the Origins, Routes, and Timelines

This guide provides information and links to sources for information about the first human inhabitants of the Americas and their descendents.

DNA

Link to source article: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aav2621

Original article related to the above image: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867418313801

"The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene"

"Who Were the Ancestors of Native Americans? A Lost People in Siberia, Scientists Say"

"A History of the Native People of Canada", from the website of The Canadian Museum of History

Documenting Indian Dispossession

A sharp decline in tribal land coverage

Farrell et al. estimate the historical (top) and present-day (bottom) aggregate land base for all tribes (Image (science.abl6288-f2.tif) is missing or otherwise invalid.).

GRAPHIC: N. DESAI/SCIENCE, BASED ON J. Farrell et al., Science 374, eabe4943 (2021).

"Documenting Indigenous Dispossession"

"Effects of Land Dispossession and Forced Migration on Indigenous People of North America"

What Indigenous People Say

"An Aboriginal Presence: Our origins", from the website for The Canadian Museum of History

"Gaa-izhiwebakin Anishinaabewakiing" (Anishinaabe Timeline), American Indian Resource Center, Bemidji State University