New Scientific Research Reveals Where Native Americans Came From! | Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson

who do we come from given all of our cultural and physical and linguistic differences how do we connect to one another creationists might say we all separated that battle but how step by step did we get here and to this day we still naturally because we're Sinners look at people who are different than us and say foreign or separate or racist views of one another and this is one of the ways that we're uncovering the connections Among Us and they're much more surprising than we think and it's not just modern people it's looking at the Ancients as well I I grew up with a default assumption that being of a path German descent and then that's my mother's side and my dad's side being American for many generations but likely back to Europe these other cultures that are not Central Europe so Greeks are southern Europe of course or not European at all the African Egyptians the uh Iranian Persians none of these must be connected to me their their elsewhere in the globe what we're finding out that these stereotypes that I grew up with that perhaps you grew up with are turning out to be wrong and I've promised there's there's some shocking conclusions we're going to reach in this series those second and third points we've already begun to uncover we've seen that most Europeans have recent Asian ancestry we've seen that nationalities disappeared German French British these go away we are eventually going to see that so-called black white people exist dark skin I should say the light-skinned people Caucasians walking around who've had African ancestors for thousands of years none of this would ever expected without these tools of genetics we've seen that the America has been resettled at least once and eventually we're going to get to the most ancient history the Neanderthals and figure out how they fit into this equation and whether or not the mainstream narrative and explanation for their Origins and migration fits the data and my overall goal is not just apologetic not just challenging someone's view if you don't agree with what the scriptures say but that we'd all Marvel at who we came from our own stories in a way we've never done so before we've begun to Marvel at the story of the Native Americans we've seen over previous episodes that today's Native Americans are not the first Americans they came over to the Americas in the A.D era and perhaps mixed with or maybe more likely wiped out whoever was here first and this unprecedented discovery about the world raises a whole bunch of new questions that are begging for answers why do they leave Central Asia what is their story what pushed them across the Bering Strait what happened after they arrived in the Americas and who were the first Americans what I'm gonna look at today though is the question of why did today's Native Americans leave Central Asia this is not something in mainstream science many people think about because they push off this particular event into the realm of prehistory fifteen thousand years ago well this anchors it firmly in recorded history and so what historical events might this be tied to and to think about why Native Americans would leave Central Asia let's deal with something more familiar let's think in today's terms why people might leave ancestral homelands and there's many often sad examples we can think of in today's world what comes to my mind is the refugee crisis ongoing Refugee crisis in Syria there's millions of people who have been displaced including children why because of massive Civil War that's going on basically civil unrest and how many examples can we think of from history of civil unrest forcing people out fleeing seeking refugees status in other countries that's one potential explanation for why people leave where they were originally from it doesn't have to be necessarily that extreme though thinking of the history of the United States people came over from Great Britain from Europe settle on the east coast and then eventually started moving West why would they leave the east coast and pick up and try to start a new life further west Economic Opportunity another major theme in migrations and and human history but you think back to the earliest stages of the United States the coming of the pilgrims their motive their purpose in coming over was to flee religious persecution so the the seeking of religious freedom is yet another motivation another purpose in living and these don't need to be distinct they can all be overlapping and simultaneous when people leave wherever they're from could any of these explanations have applied historically to this question of today's Native Americans are there any is there anything in history that might indicate and give us a clue as to why these people in the early A.D era left their ancestral homelands in Asia and came across the Bering Strait well in the era of 250 to 800 A.D there's something very significant happening in Europe around the time of Christ ad 180 30. it was the Roman Empire that was ruling much of Europe and around the 400s 500s A.D after the Western and Eastern Roman Empire split up the Western Roman Empire fell due to invasions from so-called Germanic barbarians some of these appear to be indigenous Europeans we'll discuss them more when we talk about what happened to the Vikings in a future episode but some of them were Central Asian like the Huns shown here by this green arrow so on the the other side of the map the western side of the map there was tremendous civil unrest invasions Warfare happening in the Roman Empire so that's what's happening on the left side on the right side of the map that the Asian side of the map you might recall from episode nine when we discussed Chinese history that we can summarize East Asian history at least Chinese history by a long series of Chinese dynasties that undergo periodic interruptions usually due to Invaders from the north they're protected geographically in the west the South the East it's the north where they build the Great Wall to try to keep these people out well they can breach these defenses defenses occasionally and one of the major episodes which at least one history book called the age of division happens exactly during this time period the end of it is the Han Dynasty around 200 to 20 A.D and there's a there's all sorts of unrest that in China Division and so forth there's barbarians who rule in northern China and they don't get thrown out until the late 500s early 600s A.D by the sui Dynasty so it's the Han Dynasty that's ruling China around the time of Christ sort of contemporary with the Roman Empire at times they fall lots of division ensues you have Northern librarian tribes like the shanbai who Chan Bay who are ruling up here and don't get thrown out until late 500 600s and we discussed this when we talked about the ancient Chinese connection to modern Europe it's this particular Branch this group on the tree that we call group N that shows this connection well that's very intriguing around the same time that the Native Americans today's Native Americans are leaving Asia you have tremendous upheaval and civil unrest in Asia and in fact because you have unrest all across the Asian continent from Europe from from the Atlantic to the Pacific this period of History has been given its own name and the the German name they came up with was the folk or in English the great wandering of peoples because there's so much activity in Central Asia so much movement East and West this is a this is a massive transition period so is it any surprise that we have not only movements within Asia but from Asia out into an entirely different continent so this is an intriguing handle that begs for further explanation the next steps here would be for someone who can read Chinese I cannot to take a deep dive into the historical literature The Smoking Gun that would give us an even greater Clue Into the story of the Native Americans would be finding some sort of historical record that says these people are living over here they were doing this and then they disappeared and we never heard from them again that's the type of thing I'm expecting to be able to find in the historical records in ancient Chinese literature or the literature of others around that time period perhaps we could also find the answer as we take a deeper dive into the oral and written histories of the Native Americans I'm concluding right here without a great resolution because this is research in progress and this is begging for a multi-disciplinary multi-person investigation I'm a geneticist by training some of our viewers might know people who are historians this is groundbreaking research that no one's ever considered no one's taken this approach to take a deep dive into this period of History to say what was going on and can we start putting the pieces together to to solve this puzzle of Native American history and from the realm of pre-history into the historical era where we have written records and such that can tell us what happened well that's one field of science we can turn to to try to expand the story of today's Native Americans I want to turn to another discipline of science that also holds some tantalizing Clues and that's the discipline of linguistics so for example if you compare basic words that pretty much every language needs and I'm going to compare them in German and English you see some some similarities so everyone has a father a mother everyone's born they live you need to have these sorts of words in virtually every language so let's compare English and the German notice that in in English we say father in German it's spelled with a V but it's pronounced the same letter is is still that F sound fata mother Mota you can see the similarities again again with the first letter pronunciation born in German the emphasis is still on the B the second syllable life lab Laban you can see there's obvious parallels between this two the parallels aren't as strong between English and Spanish so father doesn't have a sound it has a a p sound in Spanish Padre mother still has the M retains the Madre born though you can see the differences are more striking nasido and life is a Vida beginning doesn't have the L Sound Spanish and Latin though seem to be about as similar as English and German both have the P for father pabre Potter Madre maternacio you can see those parallels there between Spanish and Latin and if we didn't know any better looking at these similarities and differences we might be tempted to say perhaps there's a relationship among these languages perhaps English and German come from a common ancestral language perhaps Spanish and Latin come from a common ancestral language and if we think about it deeper and further maybe both of these groups share a common ancestor in the distant past and if you're watching them I say whoa whoa whoa whoa you're talking about language Evolution well no but I'm talking about something that might be familiar especially those who have been watching are familiar with the concept of Kinds so let's think about this from a Biblical perspective Genesis 10 and especially Genesis 11 talk about the origin of languages God says and and writes in Genesis 11 that the whole earth was one speech one language and because Mankind rebelled and refused to obey the command to spread out as God told them to instead they built a tower to Heaven God says and forces them to spread out by confusing their languages Genesis 10 gives us a list of about 70 or so men the and says you buy these their families are divided the nations were divided and so I'm going to go with the idea that Genesis 10 gives us the family groups of those who were divided at that time in history there is the entire planet shortly after the flood now today the number of languages is not 70. the number of languages is in excess of seven thousand so how in the world to make sense of that well if the language division that happened in Babel continued to produce more and more languages that's how you explain it so I would argue there's a Biblical precedent for looking at this and the parallel that I see is to the concept of kind so for years now creationists have talked about the kind that God creates in Genesis chapter one it's not the same thing as species God doesn't create a whole bunch of species it doesn't create millions of species in the beginning he creates kinds and from these kinds new species that form and fast forwarding to the time of the flood Noah takes two of every kind he doesn't take two house cats and two lions and two tigers they're all part of the same family even though they're separate species Noah takes two fields on board the ark and after the flood the 30 plus species of cats large and small are formed there's limits to that but speciation happens in a similar way I argue that there's limits to the amount of language change that can happen but from these 70 initial kinds perhaps of languages to use that term families of languages many languages have formed since then so I would argue there's a Biblical basis for exploring possible relationships among these particular languages and one of the most useful tools of classification perhaps ironically in linguistics there's the concept of language families and in biological classification if you've read our literature and listened to our talks you know that in in the in the realm of classifying animal species it's the level not of species or genus but a family that seems to be the best rule of thumb for approximating what these kinds are well lo and behold if you look at Family something very intriguing emerges in the field of linguistics so the languages we just discussed are part of a larger Indo-European family notice here in red English so British Isles and such are the same colors German languages Germanic languages German Icelandic Scandinavian ones you notice that Spanish Italian Latin French Portuguese Romanian are all in this tan color they're romance languages the green ones are Slavic languages you've got indic languages Sanskrit and such over here all of these colors together represent not several but one language family the Indo-European family there's several hundred languages in the the Indo-European family the colors represent subdivisions within it in Asia there are also several language families this represents a single language family and the colors represent branches within it this is the sino-tibetan language family Chinese is one subdivision you've got Tibetan languages Burmese languages and so forth there's multiple language families as this larger map of Asia indicates you've got Arabian languages the afro-asiatic ones Arabic and such we've got austronesian ones which we'll discuss in a future episode here you've got the sign on Tibetan ones broken up in their subdivisions this is the basic unit that collects languages into a larger grouping and the reason I bring it up is because when you look at the number of families that exist today or to phrase it differently if you were looking at this question and you say okay there's 70 families 70 language units that are listed in Genesis 10 yet there's a hundred times that number of languages today what might be a good approximation for what those original units were will lo and behold you crack open a Linguistics book like one that the ethnologue which is comes from the summer Institute of linguistics which is affiliated with the Wycliffe Bible translators and if you know anything about missions there's obviously a strong interest in in knowing the languages of the world so we can translate the Bible into those languages well here's linguists biblical linguists taking the lead it's viewed as a very scholarly resource they list lo and behold 163 language families so from my perspective here we've got thousands of languages alive today coming biblically from just 70 units and the number of families is only twice the number of men so if you know nothing else you say well there's only twice the number of families as men this is a good place to start that seems to be pretty close to the number of men in Genesis 10 and just a little bit of Investigation further might bring that number down well I bring all this up because this is a potential tool done by which to understand the history of the Americas there's history that's recorded in linguistics for example Africa let's get ourselves oriented to this map Africa doesn't have that many colors shown here in this orangish color we've got afro-asiatic family the nylon Saharan family right here which extends down to the Messiah of Kenya in green you have much of West Africa and central Africa part of the Niger Congo family you've got click languages here in this sort of a lime green they're they're The Click speakers of Southwest Africa you've got this lighter green color that's Indo-European same language family as Europe and the Americas here the subdivisions are not shown just one broad light green color so everything from Germanic and romance and Slavic are all included and the Americas of course are dominantly this light green because English is the primary language in the in the US Spanish and Portuguese and Latin America well I say there's history here because think about the distribution of these after a Asiatic languages of which Arabic is one of them well if you know anything about the history of the conquests due to Islam they're in the Arabian Peninsula and much of North Africa so that fits the history and of course the reason we have so many Indo-European languages in the Americas is because European Colonists came over here there's history that's recorded well notice here in the Americas it may be a little bit hard to see because these groupings are so tiny the Americas are poct marked with all sorts of different colors that's because there are an enormous number of language families still up and down the Americas North America to South America not nearly as many as the number of colors you have let's say in Africa so let's think about this more there's a there's a hint of something here that I want us to notice let's begin though by looking at the number of languages in total by continent here's the Americas combined their languages here's a number of languages in Africa again I've combined Europe and Asia to the Eurasian languages just because there's a lot of overlap between the two and then the languages of Oceania Papua New Guinea Australia the Pacific and so forth what I want you to see here is that there's a fairly decent balance by continent or by groups of continents they're all fairly close to each other Eurasia has 2400 languages Africa close to that about 2 000. Oceania has half that but it's it's pretty close in terms of multiplication and the Americas have the lowest number of languages but they're all not very far apart and I bring that up because when you look at the number of families that's where you really see some skewing in Africa as we've seen there's hardly any language families there's eight here by the ethnologue count and I'm removing obscure things like sign languages and Creoles and so forth in Eurasia you have 37 Oceania 26 so here there's there's a similarity well in the Americas there's 83 and what really makes this stand out is if we think of the number of families relative to the number of languages I'm going to draw boxes appropriate to that here's where the Americas stick out like a sore thumb they have a huge number of families per language in other words they've got two languages many families Africa is the opposite many many languages very few families and there's a little bit more balance in Eurasia and Oceania why does this stick out so much there's something about the Americas that seems to be off it's something different it's it's obviously an outlier as if there's perhaps too many families and here again an analogy to the biological world is helpful if you've ever studied biological classification you may have heard the term lumpers and Splitters referring to the tendency among biologists to either group new potential species into pre-existing groups those are the lumpers oh here's a different kind of animal well let's just put it in the same species versus the Splitters who see something different and every tiny detail oh we have to call it a new species those are Trends in the biological world you look here in the linguistic world and it seems like perhaps whoever's in charge of doing the linguistic classification in the Americas is a little bit too much of a splitter they want to keep dividing into separate language families it doesn't fit sort of the pattern and the rest of the world what we see here is consistent with what we've observed visually in This Global slide so let's try to think about the question of why there are so many families in the Americas and why they're grouped into such tiny subcategories what we saw in previous episodes that current archaeological research and historical research is indicating there are massive numbers of people here in the Americas on the eve of Columbus's arrival far more than we previously thought perhaps 50 million which is close to the population of Europe at that time this is North Central and South America combined yet within a few hundred years that that population of indigenous peoples dropped to under 10 million massive population collapse episode 12 we saw the genetic Smoking Gun in this the flatlining in the population growth curves you have to see the episode for why that exists so why do I even bring that up well how many languages have been lost due to the extinction of perhaps ninety percent of the people who were here prior think about it this way again an analogy to the biological world today we group the cat species together they're all part of one family and we call them the same kind because the breeding compatibility it's not the line of the house cat can breed but a small cat can boot the slightly larger cat and then you can connect them up to the largest cats in a reproductive continuum well what if there was a massive population die off among cats let's say there was some feline virus that spreads around the globe and wipes out and decimates the cat population so that at the end of it the only species that survive are The Lion and the house cats who cannot interbreed and they're also very different they're different in size they're different in appearance would we look at those two survivors and even put them in the same family I'm gonna guess that we probably put them in separate families because of how different they look so could it be that people have divvied up all these languages in the Americas and the separate families because we've lost so many of the languages that used to exist that might make it easier to connect these languages to one another reason I'm bringing this up is because there's a linguist named Joseph Greenberg who's done an analysis of the language families in the Americas Greenberg is known for and and is his classification of the language families in Africa has been accepted so he's combined so many languages into just a few language families in Africa and that's mainstream linguistic View he's done something similar in the Americas as well looking at the data he's argued that there shouldn't be 83 families in the Americas he's argued for just three and one of the reasons I find this interesting not only because obviously the Americas are an outlier if you look at the rest of the globe but if you take his numbers at face value and look at the larger picture that would drop the total number of language families from 163 down to 83. which is much closer to the number of language families that Genesis 10 implies now his view is currently rejected by the Linguistics Community well the Linguistics Community says is not that they think there should be a whole bunch of language families the Linguistics mainstream linguistic Community will say we are very comfortable with reducing the number of language families we also think there's a whole bunch of them and they'll probably eventually be reduced to just a handful maybe even one but we don't think he's made the case well enough yet so if we eventually go down that road and Linguistics take a good look at this again especially in light of the genetics that we've just done and if you look at mainstream Linguistics literature they'll talk about well here's how we classify things are there any clues in genetics any clues in archeology well now we've got this massive new discovery in genetics this should prompt a re-analysis of the Linguistics field and I'm suspicious that we'll find some new Clues and perhaps connections to Asia that might help narrow down who exactly these people came from and add to the history that we're discovering what about genetics though third field of science we looked at history looked at language are there any additional Clues we could glean from genetics and I want to return to a study that we've talked about many times before here are in gray that the today's Native Americans This is where they Branch off in the early A.D era from other groups and who are the other groups well here it's in pink Eskimos cats cell cups and pink is Siberian groups they sampled from far Northeast Asia and here in light green you have a Central Asian individual in Uzbek from Uzbekistan so if we go back to our map this indicates that the most recent relatives of these people are found among these groups well which of these groups might it be we've run into a problem like this before when talking about the Central Asian connection among Europeans and one of the challenges that we've seen is that Central Asia Siberia represents or that land I should say represents very poor agricultural potential historically these people have been nomadic they're famous for their horses the horse and and Military skill of the Mongols of course is famous and led to their world Conquest but that also means they're highly intermixed Genghis Khan deliberately split up the people she conquered moved them into his army and divided out peoples of one ethnic groups to break up their loyalties potential loyalties to in ethnicity and force their loyalties to a leader namely him so there's some sort of connection here and the way we would dig into this connection further is by going back to Siberia Central Asia and getting more DNA sequences to figure and and to map out the history to see if we can narrow down who exactly this is but this isn't not where we have to stop this is not not yet another place where it's okay this is this is really tantalizing really interesting and we're almost there there's another clue we can glean here that puts the Native American history in a dramatically new context so yes we've looked at this question of who are the Central Asian ancestors before specifically in the context of Europe trying to understand the branch we called r1b and episode 10. we saw that there were there's there's been a stream of Central Asian migrations into Europe and eventually came to dominate Western Europe and I've said there's a there's a Central Asian Siberian connection to Native America so that parallel between these two continents is not just a a conceptual one there's a link here that runs much deeper and I want us to think again about Custer's Last Stand an episode in U.S history that we mentioned in a previous episode he died June 25th 1876 along with many of his men when engaged with a group of Sioux and Cheyenne Warriors and historically we've grown up with this idea that you are two long separated long-standing cultures that clashed and won dominated the other we've seen from mainstream archeology how many of our long-standing Notions about who the Native Americans were have changed these suin and Cheyenne peoples are The Last Remnant survivors of a massive population die off and of a culture that collapsed that was highly Advanced but who were they when Custer engaged these people who was it that was engaging in the battlefield that day well let's revisit this in light of the genetics that we've discussed in episode 10 we looked at people like Custer the European Americans who are the dominant people group in the Americas today at least if you look at genetic ancestry they were a whopping 42 million Europeans who came over predominantly from Western Europe 80 percent of the European immigrants to the United States came from Western Europe the minority from Eastern Europe genetically we've seen that 60 percent of Western Europe is in this Branch we call r1b that ultimately comes from Central Asia breaks off from Central Asia around 900 a thousand A.D well I bring this this up because that means George Armstrong Custer and his men each of them have a 60 chance of being in this Branch we could say with fairly high confidence and probably 60 percent of them were in this branch just based on probabilities in the in the today's distribution of this well that's where r1b is found in this tree what about Sitting Bull and his men well up and down the Americas virtually all of them belong if they're not of European or obviously European or African descent belong to this branch that we've called group Q the one that came over crossed the bearing straight in the early A.D era well group Q shows up right there and if you say well that's not very far away from group r1b you'd be right they're pretty close on the tree they're right next to each other so let's zoom in there r1b and Q and again in this particular study remember they looked mostly at Eastern European so that the the size of the R1 B branch is fairly small r1b and Q are right there they share a connection back there and because we have a DNA clock that allows us to reconstruct a family tree with a number of differences and identities represent the length of time which by which people have been separated if Ken and I are have very few differences between us we're close in the family tree if there's many differences we're far away you can use all that to assign dates these two groups share a common ancestor in 600 BC and there's again some uncertainty we have to we're not exactly sure what Noah is I can Circle you on the tree he's right around here but if he's right there right there that's still a matter we have to resolve but around 600 BC is where these two groups share a common ancestor you might say what so what I guess that's more recent than what the mainstream folks say is 15 000 years ago well hold on we're not done with this yet there are other European branches that we'll discuss in more detail in the future especially when we talk about what happened the Vikings Europeans Western Europeans in particular show up in this r1b Branch they also show up in a branch down here this is the branch that we call I and in fact it's found both in East and Western Europe 60 of Western Europeans are found in this r1b Branch 20 percent in the I branch so that means George Armstrong Custer's men probably 60 percent of them were in the r1b branch 20 of them were in this I Branch because they're heavily of Western European descent these two branches share a common ancestor to Modern European branches share a common ancestor and 1700 BC a thousand years earlier so there's a good chance that when Armstrong got his army together some of his men showed a very deep common ancestral connection 1700 BC and when they engage the forces on the battlefield of Sitting Bull in his men some of them would have shared a common Connection in 600 BC in other words some of the so-called white Caucasians who were battling the Red Man the different looking peoples some of those U.S army soldiers had a closer genealogical connection at least in terms of genetics a closer Y chromosome tree connection to the people they were fighting then the people they were fighting with there were some of the members of Armstrong Custer's Army who are more different from one another on this tree than they were from Sitting Bull yet they looked more similar to each other they're caucasians they didn't look as similar to the Native Americans but this is what modern genetics reveals a shocking ancient connection between Native Americans and modern Europe there are some Modern Europeans there are some Americans me and Ken perhaps who have a closer relationship on this tree to the Navajo to the Sioux to the Cheyenne than we do to other Caucasians the United States it could be the candism group I that I am in group r1b or vice versa which means one of us is closer to the Native Americans than we are to each other yet Ken and I look like Caucasians how is that ethnic change can happen much more quickly than we think in episode four we saw that it's easy to take over another country you can have a minority group that comes into a majority group the minority group due to basic genetic principles will lose their ethnic features so to speak in their descendants yet they can buy their reproductive rates be the dominant ancestors of these people the reason I bring this up is because it allows us to now fill in some of the story of these Native American peoples and it begins early in the ancient BC era a group of Central Asian peoples arose they lived for a couple thousand years and at some point in the ad era there was a group that broke away migrated across the Bering Strait and made their way into North America dominated and took over and again even though they're separate branches in the tree my impression is the essential Asian peoples are constantly intermixing and so these Native Americans today's Native Americans broke away 200 800 A.D within 100 or a few hundred years a second group of central Asians broke away and moved into Europe and over time the next five hundred thousand years became the dominant ancestral group in Western Europe these Western Europeans weren't content to stay for a variety of reasons religious freedom economic Economic Opportunity and so forth they kept moving Westward eventually arrived arriving in the Americas were these two Central Asian people groups who share a long-standing ancient connection met again not for the first time but probably at least for the second so even these two groups of people looked very different their ancestors were not far apart ethnic change can happen much faster than we think taking over a country is a lot easier than we think episode four our family trees are much more connected than we think episode two the world is much smaller than we think we're much more closely connected than we ever thought possible this gives us now more narrative more of a window into the story of today's Native Americans and the historical context in which they arose lived and persisted to this day this is the new history of the human race and in our next episode we're going to try to get at this mysterious question of who the first Native Americans were and the story of their arrival and survival and perhaps Extinction and disappearance from the world today

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Published: Fri Jun 02 2023