Native American DNA Results | Savage Brownie - Professional Genealogist Reacts 

I’m Navajo and have done a DNA test with National Geographic years ago and about 4 or 5 years ago with Ancestry. Initially my results said I was Asian with NG, after a couple of years it said I was 98% Native American and 2% European. When I took the Ancestry DNA test it said I was 99% NA and 1% Spanish. Now the Ancestry results say that I’m 81% North American Native, 17% Mexican Native, 1% Spanish and 1% Cyprus. I have not looked at my NG DNA results in several years because I lost the info but I’ve been looking. It’s interesting how much has changed/improved with DNA science.

The Asia results popping up in the Inuit population makes sense when you consider how close Alaska and Russia are to each other physically. Also the fact that in theory people crossed the Bering Straight into the Americas.

I have native DNA and am really surprised that 23 and me have never asked what tribe my ancestors are from. I would think that if they were attempting to narrow down the tribes or regions, they would find that information worth collecting

Inuits do honestly look more asian than other natives. Evidence suggests that the Paleo-Eskimos entered the Arctic some 5,000 years ago. While other native groups entered North America as long as 15,000 years ago.

My understanding is that there were multiple migrations from Asia to the Americas over Beringia, and even a migration back over Beringia to NE Asia. If that's so, then that might explain some of the readings. I'm not sure how their cultural practices, etc., actually compare, but I've heard multiple times that NE Asians and NW Indigenous Americans have striking similarities, even moreso than other groups on their respective continents. So, that would be interesting to study also. Also, some Filipinos traveled from the Philippines to the Americas during the Spanish colonial period.

Regarding the Inuit results - many were nomadic in nature, following the food.When the Arctic Ocean freezes (including the Bering Strait), it is quite easy to go from NA to Asia and back to NA.

I love reviewing indigenous results and looking at migration paths! So interesting!

I wonder if the trace readings to Finland relate to other Finno-Ugric people that might not be as well tested. Especially the indigenous peoples of Siberia. About 60% of Finnish men have Y-chromosomal haplogroup N1a1a (M178) Haplogroup N is most frequently found among indigenous people of Russia, Siberian Eskimos, Finnic people, and in lower frequency among some Chinese groups like Han Chinese. So I would hazard a guess that the trace to Finland does not mean that they have a Finnish ancestor but that some Finns and they have a common very ancient ancestor. And that the indigenous people of Siberia are probably not as well covered with these tests. So the closest match would be Finland but maybe the trace actually is from a Yakut or an Evenk or an Even but they just have not been tested widely enough to show up. (Yakuts of Eastern Siberia have N1a1 (M46) up to 90% and one study shows that about 50% of Saami in Jokkmokk, Sweden have N1a1 (Tat)) Wikipedia also says "N-M178 was also found in two Na-Dené speaking Tłı̨chǫs in North America." It would be very interesting to see the Haplogroups of these people who have Finnish trace readings.

Did my Ancestry this year I'm 70.5 % Native American, 28.1 % European, and 1.4 % Southeast Asian . I've done my family tree and can trace my father's family to 5 generations in Arizona and my grandmother's family also 5 to 6 generations in Arizona . I don't understand where the 28 % European is coming from ? Aside that I'm light skinned and sometimes mistaken for Asian or I'm ambiguous. In high school I had Native Students tell me I wasn't Native enough which I didn't know what that meant at the time . Kind of made me feel like an outsider but I'm grown up now and I'm just glad to be standing on this spinning ball called Earth 🌎. Also found out my main Paternal Haplogroup for my male lineage is J1 which for us derived from Jordan ... pretty cool and interesting 👍

I saw the Ojibwa -Cree Canada results with a high percentage of French is not surprising - often we call this group Métis - they mixed with the French that came for the Hudson’s Bay trading. ( a lot of young bachelors alone in the forts for long amounts of time) That goes back to the 1400 to 1500

As a Sakha myself it's interesting to see Sakha (Yakut) traces in other indigenous people woo 🌈

Interesting video, especially with a genetic specialist's input. I'm Navajo and still awaiting my results from AncestryDNA, and will do the 23andMe and awaiting my MyHeritage kit. The 23andMe especially has had a more recent update and they have a lot of populations pop up specific to regions. A guy who is Ojibwa had Mongolian genetic markers pop up and it was very interesting. Of course, he does have some mixed blood on his dad's side and that's where he gets European markers pop and even was able to read into a marker from Africa (with knowledge of a distant grandparent). For me, I expect to see some East Asian pop up, but not significantly. I've been wary of DNA tests because of political reasons and all that Bering Strait politics. But, I love this DNA science. And, I should mention it is interesting that a lot of Native American results do come up with a connection to East Asian, and we know for a fact that we are not connected to Asia, at least not in the last 1,000 years, so why the genetic marker or "misread," as you say. More and more people of color and non-European populations are taking these tests so it's going to be fun seeing what regions get more specific with the updates in coming years. Watching all these videos I feel a peace as a human, especially after a very rough past 4 years in the U.S.! Enjoy your videos and thanks for posting. Peace.

I'm 38 percent indeginous. Looking for my father. Found cousins all in canada. Mantolin area. Can't narrow who my father is family so big it's like I'm related to everyone up there. Ugh 😩

Finland/Northwest Russia is very likely a misreading of ancient Siberian DNA admixture. Finns have similar misreadings but in reverse that result in some percentage of Inuit/Native American.

I did the 23 and me results and I just wish I could have known more people from the tribes that my grandparents would have been from because what I found is that my fathers parents ... my grandmother was Apache and my grandfather is Navajo. But sadly because my grandmother passed away last year I wasn’t able to get any information from her to go to better understand where I come from... and sadly it seems that my family might have been one of the native people who integrated and forgot about their history because it seem like my grandparents never talked about let alone acted Native American... so I’m hoping someday I could be able to understand more because on my mother side I am Irish and Sicilian and that’s another thing I would love to learn more about...

My mother is Inuvialuit, which is Western Arctic Inuit, from the Aklavik area of the Northwest Territories, and Metis, which is an historical Canadian 'half breed", of Cree mixed with French and Scottish. (Metis marry Metis, marry Metis throughout history with the occasional French or Scottish or Cree person mixed in) I get 27% Indigenous Arctic, and 5% Indigenous Americas- North. 11% French, 8% Scottish. Knowing my own family history, my guess is that all of the above percentages come from my mother, (minus 1% Scottish, which probably comes from my father). I am a 60s Scoop person, meaning that I was Stolen from my Indigenous Canadian mother for forced Assimilation/Integration. I didn't know who my father was, since I ended up in 11 white foster homes until I was Fortunately adopted into a Scottish/Dutch family. My life changed for the Better after that, but I still didn't know 'who I was'. I knew my mother was Inuit, but that is all I knew. I knew that due to my coloring, my father was European. Ancestry DNA reveals I am 35% England and Northwestern Europe, Wales 5%, Sweden 5%, Ireland 3%, Norway 1%. My guess is that 1% of my Scottish DNA also comes from him. I now know that my grandfather immigrated to Canada from England, and married a lady from England over here, in Canada. Ancestry DNA found my family for me!! How exciting!! My father is still alive, and living in Seattle, I've spoken to him and two of my half sisters. I found my mother's side of the family in the 1990s. interesting thing I learned from my mother is how the Inuit 'potty trained' their babies. They Whistled when the baby peed, then the baby associated whisting with peeing and will pee on 'command' when the mother holds the baby outside and whistles! I write on Quora sometimes, and learned that one of the ways the Asians/Chinese/Mongolians potty trained their babies was by whistling when the baby peed, thus potty training babies at a young age! To me, this points to The Inuit as having crossed the 'land bridge', though Much Later than the First Nations/Native Americans. I also originally had some DNA assigned to Asia, I forget which part. Now the updates have eliminated this and assigned it all to Indigeous Arctic. We do descend from people who crossed here carrying that ancient DNA with them. When I see Asian DNA in Native American and Inuit results, I automatically know that that is Native American/Inuit DNA as well. It is Not Asian, (at least for thousands of years), it is the DNA carried with the first peoples who walked or boated here, settling North and South America!!

As a Tribal member, Indigenous American DNA specialist & a former Tribal Enrollment employee. A person who trying to be enrolled into a Tribe will need to have a parent enrolled into that specific Tribe. Also there are Tribes that "look" more black but they are in actuality more Indigenous American. If you want, I can help you with Tribal DNA. That is my specific specialty.

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I've seen Native Americans complaining about the tests', but their communities are (mostly) against testing, so no wonder their results are not detailed/concrete enough because less samples means less accuracy.

It would be interesting to look at DNA results of the Catawba and Yamasee tribes located in the Carolinas!

That was the frustrating thing about my dna results is that all it said was native but it does not break down the native results to what tribe. But it did breakdown my European ancestry

The Cherokee kept African slaves.

Yeah, It's really complicated to collect DNA from native tribes, specially here in Brazil.

That 4% Finland/NW Russia actually makes a lot of sense. The Finns originated further to the east than they are today. They speak a Uralic language, whose easternmost speakers look very Asian in appearance. This reading likely represents an older Northern Asian reading, which was some type of Mongoloid, but Finns and NW Russians seem to be the only samples ever taken which contain it, hence it displays the westernmost range of people with these markers. It explains why a lot of Mongolians, Chinese, and Siberians usually turn up "Finnish" in their ancestry. It's really older Northern Asian.

Inuit is specifically from Alaska, the Canadian territories and Greenland.

For tribal membership any tribe that has money you have to meet the blood quantim and trace your liniege directly to an individual on the origanal internment list I know I have family members that are half Chumash they don't go by DNA tests they calculated your percent through their records.

Yes, the Eskimo have more Central Asian and less Ancient North Eurasian. They arrived in America only about 5000 years ago and are not that close related to Amerindians.

As a professional genealogist you really need to learn about ancient Beringian migration from Asia. I'm Ojibway with Beringian and Gujarat dna.

A story for NC region. My step mother is .25 cherokee. Sevier is her surname. John Sevier is her relative, the first governor of Tennesee, tried to establish the state of Franklin, Sevierville's namesake, alot of battles/wars with Cherokee. She has alot of history running in her DNA, crazy to think warring factions inter-married in the 20th century.

I’m a quarter Amerindian according to these tests and I look very native in my own opinion. I am the only one in my family that looks so Native. Although I am very mixed with European. Asians always ask me if I’m part Asian. My native is from Mexico and South Texas.

I used DNA consultants. I match 10 out of 22 tribes of Turtle Island. I am in a tribe. I had no idea I was from tribes in Columbia. Listen having displaced Ancestors and not knowing your culture separate from cultural and physical genocide is an inner pain that is unfathomable. If it wasn’t for spirit and my benevolent ancestors for my highest good reaching out and showing me who they were in my dreams I wouldn’t be whole. Grateful for ancestors, spirit, mother nature, because today’s society is separate from spirit and our Earth is going through it.

the inuit actually migrated to the americas in a second wave of migration, totally separate from the original wave that brought most native Americans. This is probably why their DNA results show more east asian.

As an archaeologist and historian that has studied Native American migrations this all makes sense. There is some commonalities between the Navajo (Dine) and some Alaskan tribes.

I really liked your video! I recently got my 23andme results. Your comment about wondering if some of the natives being surprised about European ancestry was how I felt when I read my results. It said I was 63% native american/east Asian and 33% European with a few small percentages for Northern Asian and Arab and unassigned.

most of the DNA's video about natives american videos that I watched , always include some portion of Asian parts of their result, is there any explanation on that ? ps. on 16:39 you don't explain the Asian parts, after Iberian you jump to Ireland, thank you :D

My friend is part Native American. She did a tribal approved DNA test in order for her sister to get her tribal card. Her older brother tested first & ended up not being their full biological brother. Their Mom & Dad didn’t enroll all of their children for some reason.

I did dna testing and got 57 percent Native american.

The Inuit population has more Asian because people have been crossing the Bering straits for thousands of years even very recently.

With so many readings of East Asian, I was wondering if the Chinese migrant workers in the 19th century might be a factor? Other replies above mentioned the Bering Strait land bridge as a factor, which makes me wonder just how deep in a person's ancestry these DNA statistics are pointing? I could use a briefing on how to view these data from a longitudinal perspective.

As a Christmas present I ordered ancestrydna tests for my parents. My father's results showed his DNA is 1 percent Native American. This would be at least 7 generations ago, right? His ancestors emigrated from the British isles to Pennsylvania and migrated to North Carolina Rowan County in the early 1700s. Around the 1730s. So, when I try to research his native ancestry, what resources would you recommend? Since it probably predates the existence of tribal records of enrollment and so on, that most sites mention?

I would love to do these tests but im not sure what companies will do with it afterwards. Do you know with being a genealogist what they do with your sample? I know customers can say to delete it but do they really do that? But saying that the government and companies already have our dna anyway so im sure im worrying about nothing.

I have a question! My Ancestry says I have 0% Native American, but my GED Match says I have .09% Native American and 5-9% Asian. I have done my family tree pretty extensively, and there is some Cherokee ancestors on the Daws roles, but no Asian. Do you think this is a misread or what?

there was a second migration via the Bering street that only reached the more northern parts of North America, that's why Inuit show Asian ancestry, and northern American tribes also, but to a lesser degree, and then central/southern American people do not have that Asian ancestry anymore, or rather if they still do, then is still misinterpretations/traces from the first migration. Also, European as Scandinavian can be attributed to the Vikings reaching the northern parts of North America/Greenland ... like about 1000 years ago. They settled in North America and then disappeared, aka mixed with Native Americans who already lived there. Irish (aka Celtic) can also be part of that migration, as Viking is not an ethnicity per see, and Vikings did come from Denmark and Norway but also mixed with Celtic people - and Anglo-Saxons (aka British but also aka German originally).

Native Americans are the most recent ethnicity. They have not fully developed to The Americas. They have been here 10k - 20k years. There were multiple migrations of people at different times and from different places in Asia over the Bering Strait to The Americas. They now have new DNA from the mutations made in The Americas (Native American), but not all of it has changed yet, they still retain DNA from where they migrated from. You can arguably see some of the features too, like possibly the Epicanthic fold "Asian eyes".

I was registered as Native American by my full blooded Cherokee grandmother who never got a DNA test. Since then I tested 34 percent Native American, but mostly Scandinavian - Norwgian, Swedish, Danish with splashes of Brittish, Mongolian, Inuit and Finland. So I can understand why a lot of Native American's don't like the testing as this takes away from the importance of tribal membership. I live in Australia now and my kids would have a very small amount of Native American, but they would also have Aboriginal as well. The DNA did not take away the importance of what my Grandmother taught me.

Around 1534 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca lived with the Pueblo. About 1540 Francisco Vazquez Coronado brought a lot conquistadors through the southwest.

Im African American but I traced my male line to native Americans in South America and I matched paternal lines with the Kennewick man. Always thought my haplogroup would be E or R but this was a really big surprise. I had Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and other countries with Austonesian DNA on my list as well.

I'm kinda sad that Cherookee's do not allow DNA testing. As you mentioned in another video, Native Americans did In fact own slaves. I do know that I have native american ancestry as told by my grandmother. I also have european and of course african ancestry. My grandmother was born in Franklin County ( Roanoke, Va) in 1921. Her name was Frances Julia Wright. Her Dad was Edmond Wright. I forgot his middle name. I believe he married twice? My great grandmother's name was either Rena or Catherine. Anyway, I'm very much interested in building my family tree. How much would it cost to hire a genealogists?

I did 23andMe with admixtures of East Asian & Native American 2.6%. The further breakdown is: Native American 2.0% Chinese & Southeast Asian 0.6%: Filipino & Austronesian 0.3% + Indonesian, Thai, Khmer & Myanma 0.3% Maternal genealogy is predominately from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri. Paternal genealogy research found Taíno Ancestry origins in The Caribbean.

another problem of the tribes is that [especially with eastern tribes] is that there is so much mixing with the european immigrants that tribal members are often having trouble with the low amounts of indigenous dna.

I have a question, is it possible to have Native ancestry (Caribbean) but have a Haplogroups that isn't directly related to native ancestry? I know that Haplogroups ABCD and X are indigenous Haplogroups.

The Inuit are more recent arrivals to North America than the rest of the First Peoples. It would make sense for them to have more Asian DNA and less of the differentiated Amerindian DNA markers. They probably picked up those Amerindian markers as they interacted (and interbred) with the peoples they found as they migrated Eastward.

I had to watch this video again, I just remembered my mom's grandma on her dad's side was Yaki Indian. But in My Heritage it said there was ancestry in Oklahoma on the very South East corner of the state I think? I wonder if that could be indigenous ancestry too?

Have you seen the clickbait ad for DNA company called CRI Genetics where a Native elder discovers that his ancestors were Pacific Islanders? This is through mitochondrial DNA.

A lot of the Asian ancestry is to be found in the Inuit and Na-Dene speaking groups who should show up as 40 and 10 percent Asian, respectively. The DNA looks "Asian" since the ancestors of those who are now Asian were in Asia by the time the ancestors of those groups migrated to the Americas. Your more old school, "true" Native Americans, come from a population over 10,000 years ago from Siberia, long before the classical Central and East Asian phenotypes existed. I'm looking at page 175 of David Reich's book, "Who We Are and How We Got Here." Published 2018.

Aboriginal Asians (for example from Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet) were in the North Americas about 80,000 years ago long before the Native Americans. The Native Americans wiped them out/assimilated. This is a comment I read on this topic. It makes sense why Native Americans and Mexicans have a percentage of Asian DNA.

What? Native Americans did originally come from Asia thousands of years ago, either by Bering Strait or through Polynesia to South America. Right?

We need more slavs dna test videos!))

Eskimos and Innuit were later migrations from the Asian continent, so they share more DNA in common with East Asians. Just a side note - there is a people known as the Ket in the Russian Central East who speak a language belonging to the same language family (Dené-Yeniseian) as the Na-Dené speakers in Alaska, NW Canada, and SW USA (Navajo). It is theorised that migration not only went from Asia to America but potentially may have gone the other way as well, and multiple times each way. When you look at Ket people, they do not look like the East Asian Mongoloid peoples around them...they look like Native Americans !

Just saw this video rght now. My dad had a result of Inuit 1.0%, and Philipino/Malaysian 1.5%. This didn't show up at all in his Ancestry results. My dad is testing with FamilyTree now. I'm curious to see what they will find.

The native american s came from central asia to north asia, some native americans are now reading about 16 percent mongolian and 2 percent central Asian on 23andme

Ok, here’s the story: there were three sets of migrations into the Americas from Siberia to create the Native Americans. There was the first set that occurred about 15,000 years ago in which ancient North Siberians migrated to eastern Siberia and mixed with people there and this mixed people followed mammoths across the ice land bridge from eastern Siberia to Alaska, hunting them. These were the first Native Americans. The ancestry being labeled as Native American on these tests are these older Native American ancestries that come from the earlier migrations from Siberia to the Americas about 15,000 years ago. The second migration and third migrations came from eastern Siberians and are referred to as Paleo-Eskimos. The second migration being 5000 years ago and the third being 800 years ago. The DNA being read as East Asian and Central Asian are from these later migrations of eastern Siberians because the DNA is closer to modern Asians than the older ancestry is. The Finnish/Ugric/Uralic bits are throwback results from ancient proto-Saami Finnish peoples that were an even older mixture of Scandinavian and western Siberian and some of those peoples mixed with the various Siberians who would later cross into the Americas via Alaska. Usually the Inuits, Eskimos and Na Dene tribes have all three migration ancestries, the first, the second and third migration ancestry while the rest of the Americas has the first migration ancestry. However, some American tribes in the northern USA do have admixture from the second and third migrations because of their proximity to Canada and the Inuits, Eskimos and Na Dene. Some Na Dene also migrated to the US southwest like the Apache and Navajo so they will get significant bits of that Asian DNA that other southern tribes may not get. I hope this explains it all.

There are special native American only DNA test as well. I'm in a test for everything but it's specifically marketed towards native Americans

I think the issue most tribes have with DNA is not that people will try to apply for membership, because tribes have their own requirements for membership and none of them use DNA. The fear with DNA is that it could be somehow used to take away sovereignty, ie. If a lot of the membership was mixed, the govt might say they weren’t indigenous enough to be a tribe anymore, or they might say oh, really they’re Asian, so they don’t have a claim to the land. I haven’t heard of a tribe being terminated for those reasons, but there have definitely been tribes terminated in recent history for random other reasons, so it’s a real fear.

Someone has likely mentioned this, but the Inuit were much later immigrants than most Native Americans.

I want to ask a question I don't know if you can answer. But why is it people get ancestry on only one chromosome? My mother gets Asian on one chromosome I get native American mostly on one chromosome and we get the same thing with Egyptians sometimes on 23andMe but other places it's that we're much more North African than that. Why is this? is it just that they don't know how to read our DNA or something because these are places that keep switching up our DNA 23andMe keeps switching it up and giving us weird results. my heritage doesn't it seems like it's very accurate.

One of the reasons federal US tribe Native Americans dont want to do DNA tests is because the indigenous result is likely to be low, excluding tribes of the southwest, and especially in comparison to other groups such as vast amounts of latinos and south americans. The census should have an expanded indigenous category of 4 sub categories: 1. federal US tribe, 2. indigenous latino, 3. indigenous Canadian or Mexican, 4. non federal tribe. The reason for adding an indigenous Canada/Mexico category is because of cross border nations like Cree or Yaqui.

Hello! Thanks for the great video. I'm starting now on this Geneology thing and I really loved it, my test to enter Biology University is in three days. Here in Brazil the most common test is one called "Genera" and my results arrived today with these results: 81% European, mostly Italian, Ocidental Europe and Balkan 9% African from Senegal, Mozambique and Angola 4% Syrian 4% Native American 2% Bruneian But when I uploaded those data to DNA.LAND I got pretty different results, the following ones: 42% Mediterranean Islander (Ashkenazi Jewish/Levantine) 23% Northwest European 21% North Slavic 7.6% Sardinian 1.9% Amazonian 1.2% Hazda from Tanzania I did something wrong? Or this kind of thing is normal? Sorry for the giant commentary, and thanks again for the great video, please keep the great work! Have a good weekend!

Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians Book by Tatiana Seijas During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia journeyed to Mexico on the ships of the Manila Galleon. Upon arrival in Mexico, they were grouped together and categorized as chinos. Their experience illustrates the interconnectedness of Spain's colonies and the reach of the crown, which brought people together from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a historically unprecedented way. In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves. Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos' complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty. In doing so, she challenges commonly held assumptions about the uniformity of the slave experience in the Americas.

The Finish part might be Sami

Are sites going to upgrade system yet or add any new features

This interesting as I follow along more. My dad's Ancestry results also had 2%North Africa, 2% Senegal, 2%Congo, and less than 1%Nigeria. But again it didn't show up in his results from My Heritage. So thats why I asked my dad if he could test with Family Tree. But maybe I should've had him test again with 23andMe instead. I tested with FamilyTree in 2021. My results were kind of different too. I had 3% North Ethiopia/Eritrea/ Somalia and, less than 2% Anatolia/Armenia/Mesopotamia.

I'm African American with Cherokee ancestry. All Native Americans receive some East Asian ancestry in their dna results the reason is because Native Americans originated in East Asia migrated over to Siberia down to the Americas, on many of the early tests I showed some Siberian on FTNA I show Russia, the Eskimos show a lot of East Asian because they're more recent arrival from Asia. I show on many gedmatch calculators Aleut, and Lumbee, on 23andme I also show some Asian besides the Native American I also show Chinese my full sister shows some Northern Asian, yes some European shows in some full Native Americans usually Findland/Northwest Russia because of the mixing before the arrival in the Americas from ancient Eurasia.

Oh so I have another question. I wonder like three people that are black American I don't understand how does the estimate really help us? when we have ranges that aren't specific to one ethnic background ours usually ranges I've seen black Americans who do have a chromosomal painting and it's always different things on each chromosome like you could be 50% black and 100% I always wonder why do we get an estimate if we range so much shouldn't we just get what we are?

Oh that’s cool to see someone who’s Q’echi like my boyfriend! I did mine but I’m mixed one latino Puerto Rican “white” and one latino mexican brown parent I’m only 1/2 native mostly Nahua with like 5% taino then white and 5% black. Was pretty much in line with what I expected lol

The east Asian result must just be part and parcel of the general Native American gene pool since the latter migrated from Siberia. North European populations also share a common Siberian ancestor with Native Americans.

Everyone I know who has some Native American, comes up with Asian as well. I just add it to the Native American, although Ancestry now says it’s Filipino. Otherwise, I consider myself African-American. It’s really cool to just see America as a part of your genetic material. Scandinavian are those Vikings. I wondered about the Iberian. I hadn’t thought about the explorers coming over to America, but I’m thinking that’s the Spanish going to Ireland. It’s fun to imagine.

A recent study on the peopling of the Americas was published after this video came out and is worth a read- 'The genomic formation of First American ancestors in East and Northeast Asia' by Ning et al. You should be able to access the pre-print freely.

I enjoy your videos, but often feel your knowledge is quite euro-centric. I think this series about Native American/First Nation/Inuit-Eskimo/Mexican people is geared towards those who identify as or are curious about their Native DNA, and it is helpful to see what other Native people across the Americas get in these tests. Some things it appears you need to become more familiar with are 1. The reasons Native people show Asian DNA. 2. Why some tribes, or geographical areas have European DNA (no, not a single gg grandmother, but usually generations of whites mixing with natives everywhere) and some places (i.e., Mexico) more than others. 3. People are often more familiar about who local non-native ancestors are than outsiders. 4. Realize that native Inuit/Eskimo people circumnavigate the whole Arctic Circle, hence more Finnish and Russia in some areas. 5. And much more! Still like you lots, but sometimes it sometimes seems like you don't know your American history west of the Mississippi that well. Your knowledge about Jewish populations is very interesting and helpful. Finally, Ancestry and 23&Me are both ridiculously United Kingdom biased. I think that's from all those Mayflower ancestors who have been tracing their genealogy forever!

You said something my mom had said to me when I was a teen. She said we do not follow ancestors or do family trees. She spoke of a passage in the bible about it. My great grandmother was full Cherokee. I have to admit that this all makes sense to me now. I did not know that's what the Cherokee believed. Obviously the European in me was curious to know but, my respect for my mother is stronger. I've been curious about DNA testing but, never done it.

i think that the east/central asian/pacific islanders reading has more about to do with haplogroup results than actual personal family ancestry. and is more show of a paleo-migration

So how far back would 2 percent be ?

Well I'm mainly British, but I seem to have some Native American and Asian DNA from Genomelink, how did that happen !

I just hope the recent discovery of Mesoamerican-Andean DNA in the eastern Polynesian population is available as part of a native American reference population for public use. Native American (meso-american-Andean) results came up in my brother's Myheritage test and it shows up with me as well, but as Inuit as a skewed result from uploading my 23andme raw data to Myheritage, but also via Gedmatch which, primie facie, seems more reliable. I am not sure how reliable these results really are though, but we have about the same amount of Maori-Polynesian DNA.

Something very important to realize is that there is an Asian-Ameridian connection. It is near inevitable that Native Americans will show Asian admixture. For instance, the Navajos are known to be genetically, similar it Siberians and other peoples of the Eurasian megacontinent. Linguistics and phenotype also confirm some of this. The eskimo-inuit fall into the same group. In my family "Afropean Amerindian" 🤣 Asian showed up as well as well. That does not mean our ancestor was necessarily directly from Asia, but it could have due to British colonization, and people from India keep asking me if I have an ancestor from there. Thus, especially in the Southeastern US this is possible Asian admixture is possible. And In that region Africans and Natives did mate at a high rate. Funny though that the DNA results confirm family lore. This is not always the case.

It is estimated that the Inuit only came to North America around 1000 years ago so that’s probably why their results show so much Asian.

Another concern, at least within the US, is that tribal members may rest and not be able to prove genetic heritage. It’s particularly something that’s been discussed on the East Coast with the resurrection of tribes based off of just one or two members living decades ago.

Yupik Eskimo's are very much related to Russian tribes in Siberia and also Aleutians. Also when Russia annexed Alaska they propably displaced lots of Siberians and Russian-Mongolians too Alaska to make room for white Russians.

Id love to get a better test for Choctaw and Southeastern tribes. It might lead to some research barriers I can't get past.

I get a bit of Inuit matches on deep search tests

I'll be the a-hole in the room and tell the truth, tribal councils don't want people claiming tribal ancestry bc of the land trust, BIA benefits and govt Gibs. Tribal leaders don't want more people to claim federal funds for tribes bc the great majority are insanely corrupt, which is why less than half of the American Indian population actually live on reservations anymore, and the wealth disparity between council and reservation citizens is third world tier disparity. It's ridiculous.

Mongolians are showing up with Native American ancestry. Natives are showing up with Mongolian ancestry. I think it's because of shared Siberian and Beriginian ancestors that went from that now undersea area into North America and sometimes back into Siberia and then down into Central Asia and beyond. Many people don't know it but Eastern Siberia is actually part of the North American tectonic plate. Mexicans are mostly Native American anyway and one of the Navajo clans. The Cherokee are most likely against genetic testing because so many of them are mostly non Native and physically indistinguishable from Europeans, perhaps they are scared the results will deligitimize their sense of self. Because of 500 years of European domination, Native Americans are socially and majority culture pushed towards looking at East Asians as "foreign" and "distant" when this is not true at all. Especially when you look at the world from a polar perspective. The Yupiks continue to travel from Alaska to Siberia, it's only 30 mike's away, their families are split between two countries.

Most people from Latin America will show native American, Iberia and some African dna due to the large immigration from Europe. Unfortunately due to segregation the native languages are unknown to many.

It'd be funny if we plastered Elizabeth Warren over every picture.

I have a question, I'm mixed white mom and black dad. Of course I've always been told about "having native American on my dad side but my mom says that there is native American on her side as well. Have you seen or ever heard of this?

P.S. it said that the Inuit Eskimo are the original descendants of the Asian people who traveled over the ice bridge long ago and settled in the Americas which was originally the Alaskan Canadian area and then further down they traveled because they were looking for warmer climates so from Asia traveling or migrating to be exact finding Alaska further down trickling down to warmer climates and then spending across from West to North that’s why a lot of Native Americans seem like they have some kind of small amount of Asian...

I got 25% native and I had no idea

Well. Native Americans are Native to America like everyone NOT indigenous Native Americans are indigenous to Asia

It’s how AncestryDNA used to look. Huhmmm

Actually from the research I've done, there are several studies that say the first Americans or Native Americans are descended from at least 3 migrant waves from East Asia. I'm just a research hobbyist but maybe you can find out more information. Would it not be possible for trace elements to show on both due to the relationship? I know that according to research the Inuit were the last of the migrations from Asia maybe this caused it to remain stronger or perhaps isolated once they arrived? There were also Viking Traders.