Who Were The First Americans?

Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
September 3, 2003

A study of skulls excavated from the tip of Baja California in Mexico suggests that the first Americans may not have been the ancestors of today's Amerindians, but another people who came from Southeast Asia and the southern Pacific area.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0903_030903_bajaskull.html

North Americans May be a Collage of Ancient Peoples

http://www.burlingtonnews.net/map.html

Doesn't really matter who they are a genocide was committed against them by mostly Christians. Bottom line. It was a duty under God at the time to kill them, pretty simple.

Everybody who can read knows that both north and south American indigenous people have Asian ancestors.
What's your point?

Yes, gsdadmin, and the "Christians" forced their so called beliefs on every indigenous people the world over....those who resisted were summarily slaughtered. It even happened by the Christians against the Alaskan indigenous people in the twentieth century, same thing happened in the twentieth century against the remaining indigenous people in the continental USA......Christians have been determined to conquer the world through murder and genocide when met with resistance since the time of the inquisition and they are still trying to take over, as evidenced on this board.

They were an obstacle in the European Colonization of America...

Etymology and naming

The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, where it was applied to what is now known as South America.[40] It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France.[41] These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator Matthias Ringmann,[42] states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". Americus Vespucius is the Latinized version of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus. Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which like the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derives from the Old High German name Haimirich.[43]

Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller's maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death.[42] Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of Vespucci's actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia; in fact, it is not known what Vespucci believed on this count, and he may have died believing what Columbus had, that they had reached the East Indies in Asia rather than a new continent.[44] Spain officially refused to accept the name America for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller's later maps, after Ringmann's death, did not include it; however, usage was established when Gerardus Mercator applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa.[42]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Etymology_and_naming

First World Map with America in it. (Public Domain)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#mediaviewer/File:Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg

World map of Waldseemüller (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America (in the lower-left section, over South America)[40]

Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.

Thank you, Lineage. Fascinating !

They were an obstacle in the European Colonization of America...

Yeah, that's the whole point, it wasn't theirs to colonize, it was already taken.