Native American Nations, The People of the North, and 360 Migration Around the Arctic Circle

Denmark's Greenland - The Largest Island

One human migration theory holds that the Thules on the west coast of Greenland became the Inuit (formerly the Eskimo) that live across the northern parts of the North American Continent. At the same time, DNA research shows that Indigenous Peoples migrated in the other direction, West to East. Thogether, this would seem to mean that the Thules would need to have traveled from Greenland around the Arctic Circle clockwise to end up in Iceland.

While certain evidence links the Thules to the Inuit, no evidence yet links them to the Koreans; whereas Inuit peoples are genetically related to some degree to all other circumpolar/subpolar peoples, including northern Asians that encompass Koreans. Threfore, the Thules did not give rise to the Inuits. I think the People of the North in the Eastern Hemisphere must be the originals - not of all mankind perhaps, but of Northern Europe and Asia, from where they migrated to have commanded the Arctic Circle.

Interestingly, most People of the North and Native American Nations use names for their own tribes that mean "the people", "the first people", "the Real people", etc. The Korean term "han" translates as "the people", but with an additional sense or shading to suggest "the first and only people." The People [of the North] number at least 41 separate nations or tribes. These nations migrated in order to find additional sources of food and habitation, just as other First Nations around the world have done over the course of 1000s of years of recorded history (6,000 years) at least. The difference is that they began their migrations along the Arctic Circle and seemed not to have ventured southward until they reached Alaska.

From Alaska, they fanned out in separate groups and finally reached the tip of South America, migrated back up into the Ohio Valley and met the Europeans that drove them back. One exception were the Mohawk Nation and other Iroquois, who assimilated large numbers of themselves into European-American society and became successful in business.

The People of the North that became Canada's First Nations seem to have journeyed all the way to the east coast and then further to Greenland and finally to Iceland, where they intermarried with the Northern Europeans/Scandinavians. The Saami of Norway, pictured above, are an indigenous people that that are ancestors to some Native Americans and they may have migrated north east and west.

What is certain is that the ancestral nation-tribes of today's Native American Nations live completely around the Arctic Circle. This is borne out by DNA evidence that also shows shared DNA between Iroquois (e.g. Mohawk) and Zulu nations, which also in some locales share the same word for "cousin." Another certainty is that Native Americans and Asians such as the Japanese metabolize alcohol similarly to one another, but differently from Europeans. This is a further genetic link.

Foundation stories and myths are similar all around the Arctic Circle. For example, the reindeer that pulls the sun up in the east in Scandinavia and Siberia becomes a dragon in Korea and once again a reindeer, elk, or bison in North America. The turtle is prominent in helping to form the earth in both some Asian as was as some Native American histories. Lingusitics is another tacker of relatedness and we find similarities in various language elements among the various related People. 

In summation, the Arctic Circle gave us our Native American Nations all around the globe through the ancestry lines of the Indigenous Peoples thaty include at least:

• The People of the North,
• Canadian First Nations,
• Native American and South American Nations,
• Intermarriage with Pacific Islanders,
• Intermarriage with Europeans,
• Small migrations into and intermarriage in Africa.

As DNA Mapping is pursued further by Universities in Illinois and by the Smithsonian Institute, we are gaining more usable information day by day.

Questions that arise include:

• Where is the information about a New Zealand tribe that is unrelated to the rest of current humans?
• Are the Basque people significantly different genetically than any other group of humans on earth?
• Are the Native Americans correct in saying "All My Relations" - all people and all living things are related genetically? This becomes increasingly interesting in light of the fact that scientists have determined that humans share a common ancestor not only with the ape world but with ... the SEA ANENOME! That would be quite an ancestor.

A final Hub in this series will discuss the physical characteristcs of the descendants of Native Americans. This is helpful, because many people do not know that they have such a heritage.

Notice the similarities in the accompanying pictures of different cultures. An additional link is the fact that an Iroqois word for "cousin" was found to appear in a Zulu language dialect as well, with the same meaning, in the mid-1990s.

See the similarities of dress between the Zulu and the Mohawk shown below. There are other similarities as well.

Both nations also often used a ball of short feathers with 1-3 long feathers sticking straight up out of it at the crown of the head.