Uncovering the truth about the origins of America’s Indigenous People | Witness Documentary

The DNA of ancient human remains in the United States may hold the answers to some of the most hotly debated questions in North American history. Danish professor Eske Willerslev has spent more than 10 years travelling around the US to study DNA data and what it can tell us about early humans. His encounters with Indigenous tribes, who are today fighting to have the remains of their ancestors reburied, forces Willerslev to reconsider his own position and possible biases in his interpretation of the ambiguous data. His objective ideals as a scientist are put to the test as he is confronted with ethical and personal dilemmas. Remains is a documentary film by Linus Mork.
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[@stephenborunda]

Please, provide more interesting content like this on the Americas! The recently found oldest human footprints in the Americas in New Mexico (20,000+ years old) would be a great place to start! Or the second-oldest site in the Americas at Monte Verde in Chile!

[@_JackNapier]

If you are going to make any assertions then you need to do so within the entirety of Native Americans. Not all Tribes have any immigration routes and have singular blood phenal types not found anywhere else in the world. Doing one test isn't conclusive.

[@stephenborunda]

@@_JackNapier agreed. No idea why the scientist didn’t realize this from the jump but glad he realized his errors by the end of the documentary.

[@erichudson3023]

Those are called hitchhikers they follow you home

[@nobody687]

Superstition is Superstition, sorry about your feelings, move to China and see real disrespect for natives. Grow up

[@vivalapalestine7235]

I’ve been saying this for years, but I’ll say it again. Al Jazeera English is so underrated in terms of their documentaries , which are so well-made , so truthful , so insightful and interesting. Please keep up the amazing work guys even if it doesn’t receive millions and millions of views . Those who watch it really appreciate your work .

[@beakay.1834]

Since Oct 2023 , I & family had stopped tuning to CNN , MSNBC, Fox & some other mainstream western medias. Al Jazeera & some other independant media seems to give more informative & balance news.

[@agubata1]

Al Jazeera is underrated and unappreciated precisely because of its bold and courageous determination to tell the story of the ENTIRE world truthfully and unapologetically. It could do more in respect of the repressive and autocratic regimes of the Arab world, but who bites the finger that feeds her? Despite that, however, it routinely and daringly puts western lamestream media into shame.

[@JensPeterLiljegren]

"Remains" is produced by the Danish public broadcasting company DR (Danmarks Radio). Thank you anyway, Al Jazeera English, for distributing the documentary to your audience.

[@JulieMartin-sy8oh]

A pity they were bought out, so not as free as it was in Afghanistan. Rumble, too, will end up in chains we get material through KZbin, Rumble telegram whats app.However I am afraid we no longer can trust media God Bless Julian Assange for truth 🙏

[@timothydonahue7301]

Same wit RT

[@sheliabryant3997]

Love the Native's calm, confident, simple response, "We don' t care about proving anything to anyone or to the world. We've lived here for thousands of years. We know that. We' re comfortable with that." We know who we are. NOT INTERESTED IN politi- cizing or politics, LOCAL OR INTERNATIONAL.

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

Do you think socalled nonblack people could appear anywhere on the planet before Black people? Shalawam 👊🏿🕎⚔️🏹🪶🌽💜

[@Kingofthehill84]

​@@davidbenyahuda5190 Black people in Africa are very diverse ethnic groups of people meaning they're ethnic related to anyone outside of Africa.

[@julianholman7379]

of course natives also drive cars, go shopping, watch TV etc

[@JulieMartin-sy8oh]

They were shown how to tame the horses without shouting so they were very interested in pursuing wisdom.

[@Miguel-p6x2e]

​@@davidbenyahuda5190stop asking the same stupid questions over and over and over and over again. are you dumb or something 😂😂😂😂😂

[@junebrilly5302]

Im very disturbed the perpetuation of the Western dismissal of the deep beliefs and culture of the First Americans

[@findliza]

First Nations, please. Some folks were never considered American

[@rickpearson7943]

In all fairness, scientific secularists are dismissive of all superstitions regardless of the ethnic background of those beliefs. 🤷‍♂️ That includes the superstitions of their own ethnic backgrounds.

[@findliza]

@@rickpearson7943 Oh yes, the “we can’t know anything about anything, so matter doesn’t matter” crowd

[@rickpearson7943]

@@findliza huh?

[@MossyMozart]

@bannock_bashi - What do you mean? Native Shaman are not the same as "high priests" and Native tribal members are not "sheep".

[@shauna7946]

In the first minutes of the video, the dichotomy between the professors' excitement and desperate desire to test the bones juxtaposed with the Klamath Tribal Leaders calm knowing that these bones are his people's ancestors, was palpable. The scientists excited desire to have the bones tested to scientifically prove their genetic connections to modern populations, was also juxtaposed with the Tribal Elders calm knowing and lack of care what the rest of the world thinks. His calm sense of knowing was amazingly relaxed and beautiful.

[@lilpinakeit4190]

It's cus who they trying to prove, when they don't need to know, because the creator already seen it.

[@petribz400]

There's absolutely no doubt and there should be no doubt that the tribes lived on this land long before white man

[@ayabaki]

Everyone knows that and accepts that they are just trying to create a white American bogeyman for the story so that they can map it onto the white European Ashkenazi that came to Palestine story. That is all this is.

[@RipPimpCScrewstonTX]

Nobody questions that

[@zipperpillow]

so what? Before that, we were the same people. We are the same people.

[@tequilasunset4651]

​@@zipperpillow And we would serve to benefit being more in touch with those of us who's culture is closer to the land, rather than assuming it's them who should change.

[@jmc8076]

And as he said at the end dna evidence is showing they themselves are ancestors of a group from even further back that split off into about three groups. I agree they prob are but we need more dna evidence to show they definitely weren’t alone. There could’ve been other peoples/ dna in what’s now Alaska, Canada, US, Mexico but they were prob the majority. Other channels exploring the history from diff angles and cover the history not shown by most media.

[@wangariwairimu1st]

One of the few news channels that broadcasts everything, from everywhere across the globe.... non bias, always informative documentaries

[@mrtee3477]

Non-bias? LOL all corporate news are biased.

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thank you for your kind words and feedback!

[@wangariwairimu1st]

@@aljazeeraenglish No thank you for I stay informed and millions others and my favorite programs are witness,101 east, dying earth , and other documentaries

[@mikiohirata9627]

Non bias hardly !

[@UnmuteTheMute]

In this world, there are things in an organisation that are biased for some and unbiased for some. We shouldn't believe and trust everything of an organisation. For ex: international media in war between Ukraine and Russia, it's unbiased (but there are some exceptions) and when it comes to Israel of killing innocent civilians, it's totally biased.

[@Taonga2u]

Wow - did I just watch another version of "Killers of the Flower Moon"? Even in death and burial indigenous ancestral remains are not safe from Western scientists and their Western myths and legends. May the ancestors rest in eternal peace.

[@lsmith8659]

The Smithsonian Institute is responsible for much of the collection and display of ancient remains. And we cannot forget the LIVE displays in their human zoo exhibits in the late 1800s, along with their scientific racism (eugenics). It has been an obsession with white power and an orchestrated effort since the beginning! I wanna know what else theyre hiding and where theyve got it hidden! 😱 All native peoples of earth were melanated.. but where did the pale skin come from? 🤔👽🤯

[@NewDealDem2187]

You big stupid

[@NotAnnaJones]

Europeans didn’t travel to and stay in the Americas in deep antiquity and become native Americans mixing with the Asian peoples traveling there… Native Americans got there by crawling out of the caves like magic lead by the aliens…. According to their traditions.

[@zipperpillow]

Dude, they are dead. Like the ferns that became oil fields. Their calcium is not sacred. It's just calcium now, like it was calcium before it was a tooth.

[@Taonga2u]

@@zipperpillow lol.....of course you would say that. I'm fine with offering respect to ancestors that came before me, and I'm grateful for people that do the same. I'm fine with you not having any respect for your ancestors, that's up to you.

[@ciaracet0716]

You NEVER disturb the ancestors. As a Shoshone from Duckwater it was hard watching some of this, especially about spirit mountain. He got what was coming to him and i guarantee he wont be doing things like that anymore, our people are powerful and his testimony about the possession could be a documentary in itself.

[@findliza]

I agree, I had so much tension in my body during parts of this. Really hard to watch

[@Master13346]

It's a sad day for science when superstition wins

[@solangede]

Thank you for your comment. I am Chilean, over here very similar history. I looked into what he is doing now and he is working with DNA from plants. Seems that he learned. Do you think the documentary is respectful? As I see it, it gave a voice to the people that is not always given.

[@westho7314]

Shundahai from Timbisha

[@hollybug-76542]

Watching this was difficult. His enthusiasm was contagious. But it felt to me like he was cutting my own mother up in an effort to prove something that doesn't need proven. It made me sick feeling. My people, (E Shoshone) have always been here. This is something you just know. He definitely crossed a line. Although I am glad that he did apologized and admitted his heinous mistake, which is something most Scientists won't do. Scientists need to give reverence to the generational knowledge that's been shared with them and realize and acknowledge the damage to our already struggling communities when they ignore that information. Like the one Native woman said, "Science has always been used in a detrimental way against Natives." Our communities have suffered enough under Colonization and we shouldn't have to continually fight for our place in our own land. The Genocide of our people is on-going even today.

[@Crayz919]

NATIVE LIVES MATTER... A'HO !

[@gugulethubodibe8386]

Such a brilliant documentary! As an Afrikan I can relate, but what I found amazing was that in this documentary we see racist euro-american scientists, who ultimately eat humble pie because in this instance, the one honest European scientist actually admitted his personal biases in making wrong conclusions...NOT SO "OBJECTUVE AFTER ALL RIGHT? But atoeast he was honest enough to correct himself and to reveal the archilles heal of euro-american science...RACISM!!!

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thanks for watching!

[@MossyMozart]

I wouldn't call the geneticist "racist", but biased. We _all_ have intrinsic bias towards one thing or another - a group, culture, religion, music, food, favorite color, etc, usually without us even realizing it. When it is brought to our attention, as in this documentary, we try to learn from it and overcome our bias. At least, the smart, empathetic folks do who want to move on to a better world.

[@Kingofthehill84]

​@@MossyMozart This scientist person also claimed that Europeans are the ancestors people of the natives peoples even though both Europeans and natives peoples of North America, Central and South America are very diverse ethnic groups of peoples not only that they look nothing like the Europeans peoples honestly they look more like Asian peoples than European peoples but they're not ethnic related to Asian populations either. The first test results was the correct one each ethnic groups of peoples from each continental are closely related to one another due to intermarried other are actually ethnic related to one another like for example the vast majority of East Asians and Southeast Asians are genetically related to Lao people.

[@mjinba07]

Racism is a loaded word, implying intent to diminish others. This particular scientist was shown to be respectful, persistent, curious, and open to discovery. His discovery completely turned a previous foundational notion about the origins of peoples on its head. That's a big deal. Very big. If we're going to categorize an entire group of people as if they're all alike, any group, alike in a particularly simplistic and negative way, isn't that kind of the same kind of thinking as racism? That's a rhetorical question, btw.

[@letsdothis9063]

Spoken like a truly hateful and miserable person.

[@solangede]

Amazing and powerful documentary, as a Chilean its easy to relate. Similar history, everywhere. It is so sad, but we can´t change history. Only learn and not repeat. One detail: Seems like Alexei Tikhonov did not know that the people in Altai, Siberia, got very upset about the remains of the Siberian Ice Maiden. She was a Pazyryk shaman, the people of Altai believe her remains protect them and they insisted for many years, so much that the government had to send her back to Altai in 2012 but she is not home, she is in a museum. That is not right. Greetings from Chile, sorry if my english is not so good.

[@billfarley9167]

From Canada: Your English is just fine dude.

[@heatherburnard1805]

So sad and disheartening that she is still in a museum! I hope the Altai gets her back soon

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR POWERFUL AND INFORMATIVE COMMENT! I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS, BUT IT'S SADLY NOT SURPRISING. AND, YES, YOUR ENGLISH IS MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN THAT OF MANY LIFELONG US ENGLISH SPEAKERS....

[@gairoonishaboolay4331]

So sad....This is what happened to the native American.....Genocide

[@rhetorical1488]

the wars between the Apache and Camanche were genocidal yes.

[@danielvertino8126]

The largest genocide in history and decreed by the Roman Catholic church

[@BCooperArtMind]

What happened, and most importantly, what continues to happen in the present. My children are Shuar and Quichua, they struggle daily in the Amazon against the ravages of "Modern" society. They're losing their language and their culture, but we continue to resist, after all these years. We're still here. Genocide takes many shapes as it progresses in time, and since we're still here, and being displaced, it continues.

[@shy404usernotfound]

@BCooperArtMind I hear ya but that's South America. This video is specifically about Native Americans, you know...in the United States of America. It's not about Canada, Mexico, or another continent like South America etc.

[@shy404usernotfound]

​@@BCooperArtMind also you can't relate what goes on in South America to indenginous people today, as being the same to what goes on in USA to Natives today. Natives have special rights and privileges in the USA, TODAY. As they should and should get more imo.

[@Theendofeverything7036]

It’s very hard NOT to draw similarities between what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and what the United States government has done to the Indigenous people of America. Same M.O. claiming that indigenous people have no right or claim to land that they have been rooted for centuries.

[@obtuseangler768]

The US pales in comparison in ways to what happened in Canada. They both got their inspiration from the Brits most likely, they did the same thing to anyone that wasn't white that inhabited somewhere they wanted for resources or for logistics. The Indian Act of 1867 here in Canada was particularly severe. In fact it's still in place today, too hot politically to touch...we just shut down our last residential school 30 years ago. But you are correct. This is a racist land grab you are witnessing in the Levant. What's made it worse is the propaganda from the West and Bibi. Palestinians are Semitic by race. An Ashkenazi from Europe shares Semitic religious rituals and speaks a Semitic language, that's about it. When the Romans came the jews that wanted to stay converted to Christianity, then converted again to Islam when the Muslims arrived...you are witnessing Israel murder their long lost ancestors ffs😑

[@shamim621]

Exactly 💯

[@findliza]

DRAW those connections. Don’t hold back. For the love of everything please

[@danettecherry5003]

You can find examples of genocide throughout history and all over the world. Man has always feared those who are different.

[@PeachyKeen84]

It’s always “Fear the other”

[@historyalwayslie]

West are building Israel, as they built USA, on genocide, 500 years ago. Between the late 15th and late 17th centuries, 130 million indigenous Mississippian, Pueblo, Aztec , Inca peoples are estimated to have died in deadly massacres, mass rapes, forced starvations, wars, chattel slavery imposed by European settlers. West built USA, Australia, Canada, New zealand, on Genocide, A Text book example of systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing. Now They are building Israel, in Palestinian land, on Genocide. But This time, it's on Tv , Live, before our very Eyes “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain

[@mariag3605]

There was no genocide in NZ - a treaty was signed, which was different to Australia... Read about the 'musket wars' and who bought in all of the musket (not whiteys - the evil missionaries refused to give them any WMD), where up to 20% of the population were genocided by each other for 20 years and up to just before a treaty between Victoria and Maori was signed in 1840...the Maori were not a nation prior - they were warring tribes (wanting more land, wealth, power) who enslaved, displaced and cannibalised each other (two Taranaki tribes invaded and wiped out the pacifist Mori Ori in the Chatham Islands). The truth is Maori were as bad, if not worse, to each other as the evil whitey invaders...

[@obtuseangler768]

Germany supports Israel so much because they can't let it fail. They already have a far right problem in government and they don't need a second Hola Coste. It is a genocidal land grab, 100% but there is a socio construct involved. Ask yourself why the most abusive racists on the planet (US) support Israel

[@jmcg9822]

@@willbass2869 if that were true why does Mexico and other nations once ruled by Spain and who were contact with before any other Europeans, have a population where the majority is vastly indigenous? And even Alta california “once the territory of Spain” had a vastly higher indigenous population until it was annexed by the U.S.A? There was disease but the difference is Spain wanted to subjugate the native population, the U.S.A wanted to eliminate the native population.

[@willbass2869]

@@jmcg9822 more "natives" in Mexico now because Latin America had few European families settle initially. It was overwhelmingly single men seeking fortunes & glory. They hooked up with local women, not white women N. America from the start was a colonization exercise, not merely a looting expedition. It was family centered

[@jmcg9822]

@@willbass2869 so you’re just outright making things up to support your opinion now. Lol

[@KathleenHandron]

No climate crisis if we had believed the wisdom of the Native Americans.

[@zipperpillow]

Go ask the dinosaurs, Einstein.

[@ottodidakt3069]

Einstein would tell you that he's right : first because we would have much less impact on accelerating climate change, second because we would know how to proactively adapt ! You think he's a fool, I think you're acting like a fool. We're always somebody else's fool ;-)

[@zipperpillow]

The Mayans were native Americans. How did that work out?

[@theCosmicQueen]

@@zipperpillow they had an evil culture , but are still alive today.

[@charlesmills8637]

European, Asian or African, we are all family and earth is home.

[@CyberspacedLoner]

Please don't forget the (first) americans; northern and southern,

[@charlesmills8637]

@@CyberspacedLoner They would fall primarily under the Asian group. We are all family, that includes everyone.

[@zipperpillow]

Bingo! thumbs up. This comment section is packed full of clueless dimwits and half-baked feminists who need a brain transplant.

[@davidbenyahuda5190]

Stop lying. Socalled nonblack people are literally not a part of the natural order ie they are hybrids. Not naturally occurring people. This episode is based on antiBlack savage racism. Shalawam 👊🏿🕎⚔️🏹🪶🌽💜

[@terrydawson2239]

However the this continent in your list have a pivotal role in populating the entire planet.

[@vbickford]

This story, told with unexpected honesty and integrity, wound up being extraordinary.

[@michellelester243]

The repatriation of the Ancient One brought me to tears and the trip to Siberia had me on the edge of my seat! Fantastic documentary.

[@westho7314]

There are somewhere between than 50k-100k NA skeletons & remains in museums, warehouses & closets in the US &around the world, just waiting for the funding to study?. Maybe i should dig up some Europeans great great grandma pull some of those gold teeth for DNA study and put all her grave goods in a display case to verify or justify her existence as a European in Europe..This is a science of insanity & disrespect, has no dignity, empathy or connection with the Great Creator whatsoever.

[@rickyodom1201]

how know which way any body migrated was there a sign saying they went that way are the reverse way we know they used boats not some made up ice bridge

[@JuanReyes133]

In the end, science studies the atoms, spirituality studies the connection. This connection between two atoms forms a molecule that grows into an organism. This comes to creation, thinking, expressing, emotion, history. Words cannot capture the deepness of this matter. Indo-European, Polynesian, another branch... Its just words. We all walk on the shoulders of our ancestors, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But energy doesnt die nor in science nor in spirituality, a spirit, or connection, whats in a word, doesnt die. Hence the apprehension of the tribes. Hence the rationality of the Danish guy. Mashallah AJ shoukran bzf great documentary.

[@marienovotna4115]

West occupation. History repeats

[@mikiohirata9627]

I'm sick of people separating human progress as west vs east. No, history does not repeat but can be rewritten or corrected to reflect human history.

[@marienovotna4115]

@@mikiohirata9627 corrected like where? All I see is West fighting Global South or East like genocide in Gaza, .... list goes on

[@NotAnnaJones]

Naw, Europeans didn’t travel to and stay in the Americas in deep antiquity and become native Americans mixing with the Asian peoples traveling there… Native Americans got there by crawling out of the caves like magic lead by the aliens…. According to their traditions.

[@PeachysMom]

@@mikiohirata9627it never gets corrected hun. It just repeats. At my elderly age I no longer hope for a better future for mankind. Our minds are still in the Stone Age.

[@zipperpillow]

@@PeachysMom Peachy, who asked you?

[@erinmac4750]

Amazing, profound documentary! Eske Willerslev is known for is imoeccable work and integrity, so that makes this story all the more important. He is a human being with heart to change his perspective on the ancestors' remains once he found out their status within the tribes' culture and beliefs, treating them with respect and helping to repatriate them for burial. He is also a true scientist, who follows where the evidence leads, and can admit his mistakes, even at great personal cost. Lastly, this is most importantly about the struggle of the First Nations to regain everything that was stolen from them. I hope that this video gets widely viewed, and that people's knowledge and empathy grows. Thank you, AJ Witness Team, Dr. Willerslev, and all the indigenous communities involved. 💜🌎🪶

[@LynetteA68]

Thank you! Nanaya hullo I kana~ ✌🏼 & 🫶🏼 my friend! CHOCTAW NATION❤

[@sebastianzorrilla7491]

His studies on DNA extracted from soil samples are amazing. Science has a lot to do, not only for humans but for the whole earth's biome.

[@shy404usernotfound]

Who exactly is saying that the Natives weren't first?! I've literally never heard this one before lol. It's almost so stupid, it's shocking that I want to laugh. Certainly must be a European thing, who's never been here.

[@clinkedylinkedy1]

Yeah immediately sketchy

[@zymon.]

Yup, same thing crossed my mind... I learned about this almost every year, K-12

[@zipperpillow]

You don't sound shy. You sound irrelevant.

[@erenjaeger1738]

Idk some colonizers comments saying native american didn't have civilization, which isn't true.

[@zipperpillow]

@@erenjaeger1738 Even chimps have a culture, birds have a culture, ants have a culture, but many native societies were in collapse due to drastic population loss from new contagious diseases, including most importantly, their elder generation who were the memory keepers. In addition, many groups got displaced and were living as refugees in an attempt to escape slave raids. Between forced emigration and disease decimation, many Indian groups in the East were in chaos. This appeared to urban Europeans as it was...disorganized, erratic and reactionary, compared to the stratified and highly restrained city life they had just come from.

[@pamgconley]

I love it 😘 “We aren’t out to prove anything to the rest of the world- we’ve been here for THOUSANDS of years.”

[@MossyMozart]

I think this documentary must have been made before the discovery of the White Sands footprints. They take Sapien population of North American back ~23,000 years.

[@zipperpillow]

Big deal. My people have been around since people became people.

[@vivalapalestine7235]

I’ve been saying this for years, but I’ll say it again. Al Jazeera is so underrated their documentaries are so well-made , so truthful , so insightful and interesting. Please keep up the amazing work guys even if it doesn’t receive millions and millions of views Those who watch it really appreciate your work .

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thanks!

[@Festfolket]

Al Jazeera posted this on KZbin. But the documentary is 100% a Danish production and Eske is from Denmark

[@bumblebee8653]

​@@FestfolketThank you. Al Jazeera is complicit with Hamas terrorist and hostage activity. For daily news not one word can be believed.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

The real answer for better relations with the tribes and the archaeological community is to offer scholarships to the youth. The optics of another white person coming to disturb their ancestors understandably raises questions. Eventually, Native American researchers would be publishing their own findings. That’s what reconciliation looks like.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

I was thinking the same thing. The optics look bad because he's white, but if it were a native researcher it would be better. I don't know how many natives go into this line of work. A lot of places save seats for native students at university and subsidize their tuition but enrolment in higher education still isn't high unless they were raised off the reservation. It seems like some native leaders aren't interested in genetic ancestry though, regardless of who's doing it.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

Education is just one of their many worries.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

@bannock_bashi And maybe you should mind your language? Racial slurs aren't cool in any language.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

@bannock_bashi We’re talking about native lands. How would archaeologists give land back? 🤨

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

@bannock_bashi You seem upset about something. Do you need help?

[@martinasolej7223]

This is beautiful and tragic. Our beautiful Native American Brothers and Sisters....LOVE LOVE LOVE - your presence is FELT - I am thankful for you.

[@LynetteA68]

Thank you! Nanaya hullo I kana~ ✌🏼 & 🫶🏼 my friend! ❤from CHOCTAW NATION❤

[@pamwall9624]

This documentary would be a great, educational movie that would have the most impact on dismissing all the other "data" trying to prove the indigenous people of the Americas were not the first people of the land. I cried during the last half of this video and I am SO glad it has been made available. This was a nail biter. I loved "the people's" way and knowing. I give credit to this man for having the guts to be honest - who does this? Especially someone who has a professional reputation to protect. Thank you so much for this documentary!!! I NEVER expected the twists and turns and the depth of SO much in the people's history. The US government has even to this day continued to find ways to destroy their culture, way of life, etc.

[@KapryanLaPaz]

Just because you find bones in Siberia that are partially European and part Native American does not prove that Native Americans came from Europe. It only proves that the two populations met some time in the past. Why do Europeans think that the land bridge was only a one way corridor? We know now that there were Native Americans in North America thousands of years before the "Clovis Culture". Is it impossible to believe that maybe some of the Native Americans crossed the Bering Strait and populated Siberia? At least he could admit his prejudice.

[@zipperpillow]

Have you found any bones, Kapryan? I'll bet not.

[@rmsavig2204]

Great points

[@exploringally-cat]

Ive said for years that this country would be better off if the natives were given authority over the land

[@katherinetutschek4757]

If you mean ownership in the sense of conservation, you are probably right. But if you mean ownership in terms of governance of the country/continent, I kinda disagree. Maybe pre-colonization native governance would have been better than Europeans to an extent, but no human group is without flaws or injustice. European flaws are just more visible because that's what we're more familiar with. Now, the effects of inter-generational trauma and intercultural politics have taken quite a toll on native populations, so their administration isn't actually that great. I am speaking in general terms obviously, there are capable individuals too, but having administrative experience with native tribes, I can tell you many tribes do not run things particularly well.

[@Crayz919]

​@@katherinetutschek4757there would be no pollution, trash or land fills , money or religion , politics etc. And the world would be a better place if things were ran as native people like the great creator intended and mother earth...

[@katherinetutschek4757]

@@Crayz919 I don't have exact stats for North American natives, but scientists have done studies on current hunter gatherer groups who still live in the traditional way, and discovered that aboriginal ways of life are often no more sustainable than those of the modern day. The only reason they didn't impact the land as much was because their population size was relatively small in comparison. That's not to say that there weren't aspects of native life that were considerate of the land or respectful toward it. For what it's worth though, Europe used to be comprised of hunter gatherer tribes too. We're all natives from somewhere, who evolved alongside nature and relied on it to survive. We all come from the Creator. Yet people are people, whether they live in cities or small tribes - they have their squabbles, fights, hierarchies, etc. Native tribes were not always at peace with each other, and there was not complete equality. It's a bit naïeve to think there wouldn't be politics, religion, or trash etc.

[@zipperpillow]

That's why nobody listens to you.

[@DanaFoussat-jb3io]

@@Crayz919have you ever been on a Reservation? They don’t take care of their Mother Earth whatsoever.

[@44DimensionSeven]

This is a powerful documentary! I can't wait to tell anybody who will listen. Not only should indigenous people receive their historical and ancestral remains, they should get their land back too.

[@zipperpillow]

I vote "no".

[@44DimensionSeven]

@@zipperpillow its funny when people in the u.s. think votes matter

[@azaleaalt9351]

Guess the line that separated the USA, Canada and Mexico(south, north and Central America) the people on the continent of America were all colonized by European. Just different ones French British Spanish Portuguese. Oh and if the indigenous people of Alaska are related to the people across the sea in Russia then what does that mean? They literally can’t go visit each other anymore. They used to bug now the invisible line been drawn.

[@zipperpillow]

Do you mean their land in Asia where they came from? Or their land in Africa, where we all come from?

[@azaleaalt9351]

@@zipperpillow lol

[@Unc.357]

The Indigenous of the northern hemisphere founded US democracy and inspired the first constitution for man.

[@alvahhicks9217]

Ever so CORRECT!

[@MossyMozart]

Combined with the English law to = an amalgam, like the way all _Sapiens_ should interact together.

[@zipperpillow]

wrong.

[@noelburke6224]

Have you ever heard off Celtik laws which go back thousands of yesrs

[@Snownam227]

Make america, Red Indian again!

[@UnmuteTheMute]

*native American

[@NoGodsNoMasters1885]

Make America Turtle Island Again

[@JonDoeNeace]

​@@UnmuteTheMuteit means Rez Indian. Native is too broad. It includes a lot of people.

[@NotAnnaJones]

They were called red because of the red ocher they wore on their bodies to protect from the sun just like the ancient Egyptians. Europeans didn’t travel to and stay in the Americas in deep antiquity and become native Americans mixing with the Asian peoples traveling there… Native Americans got there by crawling out of the caves like magic lead by the aliens…. According to their traditions. Logic 🙄

[@MossyMozart]

@Snownam227 - The First Natives in the Western Hemisphere were / are not "red". That is as bad a stereotyping as calling folks "white", "yellow", or "black:.

[@fairdose]

Before politics, before borders, before labels, a group of humanoids emerged out of Africa and we are all related to them theoretically. That doesn't make us all African. Just like the First Nations peoples didn't "come out of" Europeans". Europeans and Asians need to stop claiming First Nations peoples and their lands as their own.North and South America belong to the First Nations peoples, end of story.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

I feel like he just didn't word it well. A better way of phrasing it would be that Europeans and native North Americans had a common ancestor that lived in Central Asia.

[@patantoine6819]

Yes, First Nations were not white European or Asian, nor African. Copper colored people were/are the original ancient inhabitants of this land, and we are still here, a conquered people.

[@kuwahi]

If people could cross the Bering strait from Asia; could people not also cross the Bering Strait to Asia.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@katherinetutschek4757, He worded it very poorly but he was also misinterpreting his data (which he later stated himself). The common ancestors shared by Europeans and Indigenous Americans are known as Ancient North Eurasians. There is no date attached to his presentation so it’s possible that his findings predate all of the genetic research demonstrating these common ancestors.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@kuwahi, They did. Evidence of “back migration” in a westerly direction exists.

[@rayspencer5025]

I am partly Haudenosaunee on my Mother's Parents side (Grandfather is part Mohawk, and Grandmother is partly Seneca - Wolf Clan). I hold that studying all of our ancestors is the greatest honor we can bestow on them. It brings them back from obscurity, back from the dead. To not study them and try to restore their stories says that they are worthless to us, not worth the effort, like garbage to be tossed and forgotten about. To not study them is to dishonor them.

[@zainabamadahy9918]

To study our ancestors WITHOUT RACIAL AND COLONIAL BIAS is indeed useful and honors us. To apply science WITHOUT A COLONIAL AGENDA - also useful and honoring. I understand that to be the main point of the documentary, which is aimed at a Euro-centric audience because it's a message they need to hear.

[@rayspencer5025]

@@zainabamadahy9918 Though "mistakes" were made in the past, by far most researchers in this field are simply looking for the truth and answers to long standing puzzles. Traditional Native biases are stymieing progress and yielding false answers. It is pathetic that we know more about Native American ancestors in Russia, The far North, and in South America than we do about my own Haudenosaunee ancestors who are right here.

[@zainabamadahy9918]

@@rayspencer5025 Yes AND the questions, protocols and methods framing their research are colonial. But you are entitled to your opinion and you're community is free to do what it agrees is necessary to find the answers it seeks.

[@rayspencer5025]

@@zainabamadahy9918 🤦

[@rayspencer5025]

@@zainabamadahy9918 That is silly. How would it be "Colonial Bias" to want to question why a surprising number of the few pre-colonial Native Remains tested have shown a queerly large percentage of the R1 genotype that clearly should not be there? And what if it was solidly proven that all Natives Americans were 100% European in origin (this is a asinine extreme example to prove a point), they would still be the Native Americans, and it would in no way be of any more benefit to the later European immigrants than the fact that Native Americans seem to be nearly entirely decended from Asians and Pacific Islanders. After all a Yakutian* can not claim to be a Native American anymore than I can claim the Throne of England (I do carry the genes for such a claim, as do probably millions of other men with a ancestry similar to mine). Such an opinion as yours is an unfounded bias. * My Haudenosaunee ancestry includes ancient traces of genes that are now typical of the Yakuts. This is because some of those ancient immigrants from the area we now call Siberia, became at least a part of the Haudenosaunees. I also have a 2.8%:1.5% ration of Denisovan to Neanderthal genes, which is another tell.

[@cj415guerrero]

I think that science should be able to test & study any skeletons or teeth just like Kennewick man. Then they can bury them. I’m native and I want to know more about our people especially DNA.

[@larsstougaard7097]

Yes so true

[@zipperpillow]

We're all "Native".

[@ignaciovarga3162]

Did you know that there are only two genetics for North American Natives? One is Aztec/Meshica and the the other is Mayan.

[@zipperpillow]

@@ignaciovarga3162 There are more than that. How many more is yet to be determined, because the data set is far from complete.

[@cj415guerrero]

Native North and South American DNA MtDNA are A B C D X (female)& Y chromosomes (male) start with Q.

[@Prudenthermit]

I hope that folks will take a moment to learn about the Beothuk tribe that canadian settlers killed entirely creating the province of newfoundland🤲🏼❤ 🙏🏻

[@zipperpillow]

Well, small pox, influenza and the lack of intiative to move somewhere else didn't help their chances of success. Geez, build a boat.

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

I respect your comment so much, I will admit to my own ignorance about this particular tribe and the genocide they were put through by barbaric and demonic colonizers, but as a means of respecting and appreciating your generosity in making this comment, I will commit to learning more about the Beothuk tribe. Thank you!

[@lulaibrahim6021]

Problem with the “Europeans” / white people is that they just don’t respect other peoples from other cultures and religions. A lot of us just don’t care to know.. Sure science is a beautiful thing when it’s used properly and done respectfully especially when it’s a combined with efforts. My best friend is Native American and I got to know her and her family and culture and they are honestly some of the best people I had the privilege in getting to know. We should respect their land as a whole and traditions.

[@willbass2869]

Yeah....news flash! No group anywhere on this planet is pure and unstained. Your people oppressed, enslaved & no doubt k!lled other people's. Your full of zhit for smearing Europeans/whites. We've done no more evil than any other group. We're just the most recent

[@katherinetutschek4757]

Speak for yourself. Not every white person lacks respect for other cultures.

[@covfefe1787]

It is Sciences duty to tell not but the truth. If the Science says that Native Americans werent the first people or a mix of Europeans and Asians from a series of waves of settlement and it comes in conflict with Native myths then so be it. Science is supreme and comes before tradition.

[@davruck1]

@@covfefe1787science is not the truth. Lmao.

[@jmcg9822]

Not all. Europe is a vast place with many different ethnicities and cultures and each are filled with individuals. Many whites have been hostile towards other groups, many whites haven’t. White people aren’t the only ones to blame for disrespecting native cultures in America or elsewhere anyway. For example native Americans face a lot of racism from afrocentrists who have been trying to delegitimize our very existence, on top of that there is unfortunately prejudice between different indigenous cultures, for example there has been an ongoing effort among Aztecs to claim that the territory of Alta California was their land, hence part of the argument that California belongs to Mexico, they don’t like to admit that Alta California was home to numerous indigenous cultures and none of them were Aztec and when they do admit it, they disrespect them by calling them weak and deserving of being conquered, now not everyone that’s Aztec is like this, and prejudice among different tribes exists across the continents and isn’t limited to them. Even among the old Aztec empire their were regional differences in culture and beliefs which were in some cases contradictory to each other, an example of human variance. Framing an entire group in one way is just projecting more prejudice, we have enough of it in this world as is, let’s not keep adding to the pile.

[@julianeg3035]

The entire Earth is an artifact.

[@larsstougaard7097]

Pure art

[@moniquepat6649]

It's not alcohol that they died of it's of colonization & total destruction of a way of life

[@thewordsmithsdaughter]

Thank you, brilliant, moving, goosebump moments. Free the indigenous peoples of the world.

[@Tocktail]

The United States needs to give all of the United States back to the Native Americans.

[@MossyMozart]

Though that would be the ethical thing to do, or to at least follow treaties that have been broken time and again, you know that your wish is not going to be granted don't you? We are all stuck in this time and place together. We must work with what we've got.

[@gew2027]

Emblem of the Americas 1798 the Americans. Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico from Chinos to Natives are the Native Americans so are the white people.And the best paintings are in the British Museum

[@erenjaeger1738]

I believe it should be nations inside the United States. Not fully completely

[@gew2027]

Emblem of the Americas 1798 no not the Native Americans but to the Americans.White.people are Native Americans to

[@rob-1873]

So with that logic Palestinians should give the land back to Israelis, the Bantu tribe has to leave South Africa and so on and so forth.

[@JensPeterLiljegren]

Besides being a pioneering scholar, professor Eske Willerslev is such an inspiring human being.

[@JensPeterLiljegren]

@bannock_bashi He is for the four following reasons: 1) He is showing the indigenous people of North America due respect. 2) He is an advocate of academic freedom 3) He is a pioneer in the field of geogenetics 4) He is outstanding at making his groundbreaking findings understandable to a wider audience.

[@shy404usernotfound]

​@@JensPeterLiljegren the whole thing went right over your head

[@nonameplease3799]

Please reflect on why you & he find/found it so difficult to believe the First Nation groups when they clearly & repeatedly said they know who they are, they know their own history & they did not need or want him to use Western archeological or DNA methods on their ancestors. All that happened was after putting a lot of emotional pressure on those First Nation groups, repeatedly manipulating them to compromise their deeply held spiritual beliefs & making them submit yet again to the nosy, patronizing desires of an arrogant scientist from outside their community, he discovered what they already knew & had already told them. He would be a good guy if he became a meaningful ally in helping in their contemporary struggles against a genocidely racist US society, which as mentioned in the film continues to affect many with diseases of despair- alcoholism, depression...and continues to damage the land & frequently keeps them displaced from their ancestral territory. He should financially compensate them for jerking them around like this.

[@MossyMozart]

@bannock_bashi - Actually, Dr Willerslev is an extremely esteemed researcher. He is the one who had to idea of testing _soil_ for DNA and it worked! He invented that whole new field of genetic study and has found DNA in soil going back 2,000,000 years. It is mind-blowing. We are all one people on Earth - untangling the web of relationships would be wonderful. The Native Nations would then find way, way more ancestors to call their own.

[@MossyMozart]

@bannock_bashi - By the way. _NOVA_ has a whole episode devoted to Dr Willerslev and his discoveries of soil DNA. It's called "Hunt for the Oldest DNA" and is currently available for free at their PBS site.

[@virtuosa69]

@ 35:40, how can he say that from one 24,000-year-old skeleton of an individual who's half European and half American Indian, that native Americans derive from Europeans ?? That's absolutely asinine to say in such a way that doesn't consider that the half Indian had a parent from North America who traveled to Europe

[@semplybalanced3210]

White supremacy mentality is how he can say such nonsense.

[@thejuliakitchen]

Moreover research is showing that it was the Polynesian’s who populated South America and the thing I find crazy is that these scientists fully believe that people came to the Americas one way, through one route not many routes with many peoples

[@findliza]

Exactly. People traveled and mixed when it was safe to do so and when it was not safe to do so. Suggesting somehow that no one ever traveled the Atlantic (or the Mediterranean) is so laughable to me at this point.

[@findliza]

The way I pulled the AirPods out of my ears as the chanting drowned out his presentations is a testament to the producers, editors and engineers on this project. Kudos and thank you Al Jazeera

[@clinkedylinkedy1]

It reeks of the same energy of “ancient aliens” (even the thumbnail) like native people who got there in multiple ways for thousands of years couldn’t have been advanced on their own without white peoples???! It makes sense that instead of one group from one way there would have been thousands of diverse nations who all evolved at different times and interacted with eachother. Like today. Monolithibg is bullshittt. I just came to the comments to see if this was more racism cuz I didn’t wanna watch it if so.

[@semplybalanced3210]

“I didn’t say we’re gonna give them wanted they wanted to hear, I’m giving them what the data shows” umm bro they didn’t ask for any of this. Not an ounce. Colonizers blow my mind in the worst way.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

They didn't ask for the tests to be performed, but he asked them if he could perform the tests and they let him, so of course they're going to be interested in what the data shows. He's just not making any promises about what the data will show.

[@Marcoplo]

reality is hard, eh?

[@megwithyou943]

Did you not watch the beginning? The Natives told him no, and he got the sample through some white woman who thinks she has the right because her family owns the stolen land where the remains were found.

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

Your comment "wins the internet today" and, it won my heart too...I needed your words to help me get myself together after watching this very very disturbing film, and reading so many comments that sound like they are practically worshiping this guy as if he wasn't OD disrespectful, dishonest and racist AF! It just hurt my heart to read those comments, the honesty in yours really helped me! I wish you well!

[@gstrdms]

Eske still hasn't learned his lesson : "Something similar happened to me when I shot a bear in Siberia. The tradition there is that you pin the bear's head high up in a tree, overlooking where the bear had its hunting grounds. I refused and instead took the bear's head with me home as a trophy. Back home, everything started to go wrong for me, and I suffered terrible nightmares. In Siberia the trappers had told me, if I didn't hang up the head as required, all the bears in the world would know about it and hate me for it. I then took a trip to our summer house in Sweden and pinned up the bear's head in a tree there, and the nightmares stopped."

[@MossyMozart]

He is a scientist, true, but also a fool to succumb to superstitions. He was probably guilty about hunting an innocent creature and let it eat at him.

[@zipperpillow]

Huh. Same thing happened to me. A Native guy said that if I didn't finish my beer, flies would climb into the can and drown in the leftover beer. Sure enough, it's like he could see into the future. He was probably a shaman, because he knew alot about drinking beer.

[@theCosmicQueen]

superstitious nonsense. "all the bears in the world will know" lol. that planted a seed in his weak mind. But maybe the bear head would attract birds to eat it. and stink a lot to warn other bears OR attract them.

[@kevintroy4329]

The lady was right when she said theories about the Americas change, and it turns out that Eske was wrong when he said that Native Americans descend from Europeans, but it turned out that those people in Siberia the Malta Child was a part of were Ancient North Eurasians and that they were ancestral to Native Americans and later Europeans, but they were not Europeans at all but ancient Siberians.

[@gabrielford3473]

fantastic job. Thank you so much for providing depth and different dimensions in telling this story.

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Glad you enjoyed it, dear Gabriel.

[@patantoine6819]

The original people of this land were copper colored ‘sun kissed’ Indigenous ancient inhabitants who are still here. Land and resources stolen, and later 🎉enslaved. Still disrespected by the European invaders till this day.

[@adriennef4637]

Why cant people understand and respect the fact that digging up and testing their grandmothers and grandfathers is NOT ok😡

[@MossyMozart]

You can take mine to test if that helps our growth and understanding of each other. In my opinion, what made them _Them_ is long gone. The dead body is only an empty container.

[@adriennef4637]

@MossyMozart I wouldn't care if they dug me up but their culture is HIGHLY reverent of their ancestors. I think their culture and beliefs should be honored more than our need to win science prizes for our own selfish needs.

[@zipperpillow]

Yes it is. Skeletons don't own the ground.

[@adriennef4637]

@zipperpillow But those people own the land he's trying to pillage sooooo......He needs their permission. Or do you also deny landowners rights. Can I come dig up your yard with zero protest from you because I claim something might be under it I want? Would you call the popo or no? Would you just stand back and let me do it? Maybe eat a sammich and just watch in silence? Hmmmmmm?

[@zipperpillow]

@@adriennef4637 First of all, I doubt you have ever dug anything, or even own a shovel. Second, my land only has surface rights. The state owns what's underneath, coal, oil, gold, even gravel. They also own cultural heritage artifacts. So a gold-miner can bulldoze my house to access subsurface minerals. I can harvest trees, but in order to sell even my own subsurface materials, I'd have to file a mining claim, file for a business license, rezone the land, and pay taxes on the proceeds. But if I dig an outhouse hole and turn up a mammoth tusk, or a human hand, my place would be crawling with government funded researchers and archaeologists. And if I withhold that information, then I have committed a crime. Get it? Even under my own house, I don't own it. Maybe turn your "Drama" meter down to maybe a 2 or 3?

[@plmernie]

That was a very humbling experience for him. The Ancestors are listening. One day Science will see the truth as he has and stop denigrating the Indigenous knowledge base and creation stories. All My Relations

[@theCosmicQueen]

what , you came from a giant turtle and turned human, or what?

[@primordialmeow7249]

Dr. Wake is a man driven by his passions. Science is his secondary passion. He is trying his best to shed light upon mysteries.

[@thundercatt5265]

.. when I look at what is happening to Palestine I see what happened to the native American in the founding of America...me being part native American myself... the other half is from Africa, brought here thru slavery talking about double trouble and some in America denies these things even took place...it was a little more than 30,000 years ..his genetic marker was altered taking away his beard and that's why the native Americans don't grow facial hair, that was done in the days of ATLANTIS = 445,000 - 12,000 Queen Puabi also deserves a proper burial ,see her skull that's not skull binding it's 25 % more volume,Nerferti had a taller skull ,both are real flesh and blood Annunaki hybrid females from the kings list, from the root of Titi/Eve Mother of the demigods of the kings list,born = 334,000 half sister of Tiamat /Eve ,Mother of Modern man ... Both separate from Civilized man , who's cradle was in Sumer , cradle of Civilization and culture of Civilized man ,it a very long and complicated story , you all need to sit down and have a talk about..it may dissolve some of Man-Child ignorance. ..if you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you going, therefore lost...now are you not lost in ignorance Civilized man?????. That great Pyramid is not the work of Civilized man, made with tools not of this earth and that is why Civilized man cannot duplicate any of the advanced megalithic infrastructure left behind from the days of ATLANTIS, talking a smoking gun hidden in plain sight, scientists you still have much to learn....test Queen Puabi's DNA scientists, ignoring or avoiding the truth, doesn't change the reality of truth , just leads to further confusion and ignorance

[@blkindians7974]

Did you do your DNA, and if so did you have any Africa matches of family members?

[@westho7314]

@@blkindians7974 we all have African DNA

[@rob-1873]

Ugh. Palestine would be the Europeans when comparing the two issues. Palestinians are the group that was there first. Jews were. Arabs are not native to that land.

[@noelburke6224]

You are gone in to alien territory here😂

[@donahboddami]

The attitudes are diabolical & disrespectful. No change there. Big up Al Jazheera for bringing this to light & folks that have comment with their hearts over Ancestral prejudice❤

[@Tammy-ub8kx]

Growing up in the Caribbean we would find Tiano artifacts when planting our garden - we always reburied. The intentions of that man is not clear. Driven to know - but perhaps not to respect/empower/create capacity. He sees but remains blind, hears but remains deaf. Stealing the power of the bones to receive glory. Madness.

[@zipperpillow]

Tammy, got some spare time, I see.

[@RM-yf2lu]

You don't seem to understand Science

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

I appreciate and deeply respect your very powerful and truly necessary comment here! I couldn't agree more! I has hurt my heart to read all the comments that are blindly praising this narcissist racist, dishonest, disrespectful scientist, power hungry, without humility or empathy. So many here seem to have been fooled by his moments of self-pity, and mistook it for humility! Reading your wise comment helped me cope!

[@Tammy-ub8kx]

@@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad Solidarity for all indigenous ways of knowing - western science is a business that cannot master spirituality - too rigid for the tides of life. May Mama Earth and Father Time bring you content.

[@baddbeliever]

that's the power of ancestor focused faith. by the end, his face changes entirely and you can see how the people in the room are beginning to all look like each other. it's remarkable...the belief in more than one level of identity.

[@tothelighthouse9843]

James Chatters (5:37 & 28:55) is actually the 'scientist' who first gained access to The Ancient One (Kennewick Man) shortly after he was found, & prevented Indigenous people from returning their ancestor to the earth & providing a dignified resting place. Chatters was the first 'scientist' who claimed The Ancient One presented 'caucasoid traits & lacked definitive Native-American characteristics'. Based on this spurious claim, Indigenous nations were denied proper claim & control over the remains of their ancestor. Of course a few years later, more detailed scientific study proved the Ancient One was absolutely Indigenous, & Chatters was either ignorant or intentionally lying. In the clips in this video, Chatters is tacitly advising Willerslev to lie by omission to these Indigenous nations, in order to get hands on more of their ancestors for more testing. Is it any wonder Indigenous people don't trust anthropologists & scientists who claim they're 'only here to help'.

[@jamier.2560]

This has been fascinating to watch. Eske has this attitude of fascination and wonder with indigenous people's history but a complete disregard for living descendants. The arrogance. He redeemed himself a little in the end though.

[@junebrilly5302]

However, I want to thank this eminent Professor for his integral work....and his Respect and Integrity

[@BCooperArtMind]

As a son to a Native American, and father to Native Amazonian children, (and over ten years of university) did you check which way the footprints were facing? There's the profoundly ethnocentric presumption that we Native folks came from this possible "Proto-European" and we might've originated from the Eurasian continent? There's no "European" continent, that's an ideological construct. There's another presumption that the Bering Land Bridge is anything other than a theory. Perhaps, it's quite the opposite, that the peoples of the Eurasian continent originated from the "American" continent? Maybe, Mr. Proto-Euro came from here.There's a vast array of physical evidence, burial sites and such, and theories that could give a much broader insight that might pre-date much of Human history...from this continent. However, this's normally, and consistently, overlooked in regards to the dogmatic, and highly-controlled structure, of Materialist Scientism, and to the demi-gods of Academia that filter what is acceptable information on Human ancestry to the general public (according to their studies and career) which in turn is delivered through Western industrial technology via media outlets without much criticism, such as Al Jazeera. I'd suggest that the profoundly deep-seated, and cognitive dissonance, of Western Materialism dislocates indigenous peoples of the Americas in time and space--and the dimensions of culture. It's a normal process of a dominant culture's belief to be blindly unaware of its abstract notions of reality, and that its abstract belief(s) should be unequivocally shared by those that they've displaced, dominate, and study. The dominate paradigm restricts specific studies, and thus by dint of restriction, the overall picture is detrimentally skewed towards their, what has now become, perspective. Reality is again inexorably bent towards the excised theory, and thus, we have truncated, and insipid, titles stating that the "truth" has now been uncovered.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

It's definitely a possibility that the footsteps went the other way. Likely they pointed many ways over time. Not being a specialist in this field it's difficult for me to judge which is true. I accept the possibility that Caucasian scientists may have a Eurocentric interpretation of data, but the out-of-Africa theory certainly is not Eurocentric.

[@BCooperArtMind]

​@@katherinetutschek4757 Thank you for your comment. First, let me qualify myself, I'm not picking on Caucasian peoples (my Mom is white), specifically, but the institutions that have grown from the Western system of thought and education, research and philosophy. I'd suggest that the Origins of Man as proposed by Western Scientism is completely wrong. I'm not being extreme in this declaration. There's an incredibly wide diversity of physical evidence that never sees the light of day because it doesn't fit within the highly-controlled paradigm of the career-oriented scholars, and the system of Western educational filtration. Many digs here in the Americas and throughout the world have found evidence of a much older Human timeline that precedes the ethnocentric Out-of-Africa theory. If we took time to educate ourselves beyond the delineated lines of mainstream Scientism, and its proclivity to own and control the flow of information, and thus, normalize our perception without critical thought. We could begin to encompass theories that are more attune to a healthy and critical view of our origins. I studied many years in the university anthropology and archeology and various other disciplines. As you move deeper within the educational system an inherent politics occurs. Professorship, tenure, subjects to be studied, all strictly supervised by those who control the information, based on a long career of specific theories. New information that can move the narrative from a stale, lifeless theory, is snuffed out or ridiculed. Especially, something that radically shifts the paradigm. The prevailing and dominate postulations on the Origin of Man are theories, not facts. We need to remember this so we can keep stepping forward into unknown territory to better understand our origins.

[@covfefe1787]

@@BCooperArtMind come back here when you discover a skeleton that is over a million years old becuase so far no skeleton has been found that is older than 40 thousand years old. the oldest human skeleton in Africa is 200K years old and the oldest Homonid skeleton is 2 million years old all found in East Africas rift valley close to Yemen which is in Asia.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

@@BCooperArtMind I'll have to take your word that there is evidence for an older human timeline, as I have not formally studied these subjects. I do agree that as you move higher up in education and try to get funding/tenure etc. there is pressure to say what those at the top want to hear. They can be challenged only in "acceptable" ways. Unfortunately, it is so common in science (and elsewhere) that things contrary to the prevailing ways of thinking are often disregarded. I certainly agree that science at any point in time is just a partial view of the whole picture. And sometimes not an accurate one. That doesn't mean though that science should be disregarded completely. However, I disagree that the out-of-Africa theory is ethnocentric. Unless you just mean that it's a theory postlated by scientists in the West, or because it is Africa-centric. Saying that Native Americans came from Asia, or that they may have some European blood, or that ethnicities other than direct ancestors to today's native Americans may have set foot on the continent at some point in the ancient past is not because Europeans want to be at the centre of everything or can't imagine a world that doesn't involve them. It's based on a geographic path from Africa to North America. It makes sense for Europe and Asia to be populated first. Not saying it couldn't have happened a different way, but scientists came to this conclusion by following the trail of data. Data is always changing and growing, as are theories, so the data may reveal a different path eventually, but sometimes I feel people read ethnocentrism into anything Europeans/white ppl do just because they don't like certain aspects of our history. Maybe it's true there are established ways of thinking in the academic community, but I would not call out-of-Africa ethnocentrism in the usual sense of the word.

[@zipperpillow]

Nope. You're wrong.

[@brianharry7519]

Everyone knows this occupation game, they good at it.just sad how they slaughter the owners delete their History and celebrate the land as if it were their own

[@zipperpillow]

Indians were quite busy killing other Indians before Columbus arrived, kitten. Taking slaves and seizing their land was already happening before penmanship and horses got off the boat.

[@theCosmicQueen]

they didn't slaughter the " owners". The natives even declared it's not thier land but it is the Creator's land. They laughed when white men bought it and paid them. They were new comers themselves, except a few. ( RECENTLY MIGRATED ). most of them survived after slaughtering plenty of white people. they now sit on millions of acres of land that is all thiers and has rich resources, and nobody can ever take it from them, all decided by treaties. . They don't have to buy land or pay property tax. they are luckier than most americans in that regard.

[@prismpyre7653]

This Dutchman makes me cringe right away- I'm sure he has pure intentions as a scientist, but speaking as a European-America--- anyone who still says they need any evidence or 'convincing' that we annihilated people who had been here thousands of years who came from Asia... such people are NOT acting or speaking in good faith, and nor do they usually believe in science, anyway. What's most important here is not European anthropology or even objective geneology, but recognizing and preserving what little is left of these people and their history and their cultures.

[@Biixi699]

He’s danish, not Dutch

[@obtuseangler768]

They tried to wipe us out in many ways here on Turtle Island (North America) but failed. We are still here to tell our stories and dance to our drums. First it was through warfare, that failed. In fact you use our heros to name your cars...Pontiac was the nickname of an Odawa warrior, Obwaandi'eyaag. The most feared sniper in World War One was an Ojibwe like myself from Ontario. With almost 20 countries involved, Francis Pegahmagabow had 378 confirmed kills and captured 300 prisoners of war. Let that sink in. They tried to starve us to death but they failed. They killed around 63 million buffalo, sold their hides and let the meat rot in massive piles while they held the Indians on reservations starving at gunpoint. They have tried for over 150 years to eliminate us through legislation. Kidnap, beat, rape and kill the savage out of us. Teach us to be good Christians😂 Why would they want to teach us to read and write and become doctors and teachers and lawyers? Idiots. My people were hunting buffalo with spears around the western side of the great lakes on the edge of the prairies while the sands Jesus stood on in Israel were still boulders in the Himalayas. Do you think you can take who we are away from us?

[@katherinetutschek4757]

I really don't feel he was questioning whether natives were annihilated by Europeans, or whether natives were in the Americas for thousands of years. That's common accepted historical and scientific fact. It's also the current commonly accepted scientific theory that natives came over a land bridge from Asia. The question he seemed to want to clarify was how closely related the native North Americans of today are to the original settlers from Asia/Europe, and whether natives actually came from Asia or originated in the Americas like some natives believe. To me that shows open-mindedness, and that he is seeking the truth and going where the data takes him rather than sticking to previous theories. Like with the Kennewick Man. Caucasians look for scientific proof of their own oral and written histories too. It's definitely important to preserve native culture and historical artifacts, but whether or not to subject the skeletons to testing is up to the native tribes, and they allowed him to perform the tests.

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

@bannock_bashifacts matter. Dutch and Dane are never the same.

[@katherinetutschek4757]

@bannock_bashi What I said was that whether to submit the skeletons to testing was up to the native groups concerned. If they didn't want his opinion they could have turned him away like that other Chief did.

[@odilbekb-sarkaev1052]

They found that Anzick-1's mtDNA belongs to the haplogroup D4h3a.

[@MossyMozart]

Does anyone know when this documentary was made? If it said so in the doc, I missed it. It doesn't mention the White Sands, New Mexico, footprints at all. (They are from 23,000 years ago.)

[@ignaciovarga3162]

You are correct. It also does not show the discovery of the little girl who fell into the Oyo Negro well in Mexico. This is a nice documentary but al jazeer did not make it. They are taking credit for someone else's work. I have seen all of this before there is nothing new here. They just edited the original video a bit.

[@grahamwalker2312]

Such a good documentary, sensitive, thorough and hearing the authentic voices of those who remain today.

[@bullerfnis1961]

It’s a big dilemma when signs shows a different story than you want to hear. Like sometimes the ancients stories are better to stick to for the native Americans so they can have their strong faith. That doesn’t change that signs maybe shows a little different picture if you go even further back. Respect to the native Americans ❤️ And seen this documentary with Eske Villerslev that is not drama that is actually the way he works and live and he really respects people and their history but he’s also a scientist who believes there is more between heaven and earth….

[@semplybalanced3210]

He should research why white Europeans are so dismissive, disrespectful & destructive to people of color in the entire world. What’s the sick science behind that ??

[@Mekhalaification]

The background European choral and strings music detracts from the story.

[@muhammadaftab15033]

Al Jazeera! Please, make a documentary about the Peshawar School Massacre in Pakistan in December 2014.

[@gracieblair3058]

Also so irresponsible for a scientist to make an esoteric argument about possession... seems kinda racist. Its one thing for it to be stated by an indigenous person from a spiritual and religious personal place and another thing entirely for a danish guy to be like... implying an indigenous spirit retaliated against him because one person said so is very self victimizing when he is the one who presented himself like an ally and then turned around and repeated racist tales about the bering strait and tried to scientificate those theories so theyre no longer ideological or political when we know very well that they are

[@clinkedylinkedy1]

This whole thing is white supremacy.

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

Thank you so much for this important comment! This was bothering me too. His self-pity was disgusting! But your comment helped me see the rest of the picture more clearly! I couldn't agree with you more!

[@paulisawinsong8224]

I don't have any indigeous blood, but have always felt such a strong connection to Native American Indians, especially the Navajo and Hopi nations. I also spent a short time with the Inuits in Alaska. All such incredible beings. I always feel such reverence when interacting with them. Tank you so much for this podcast.❤

[@amybegay5859]

There a book that I’m reading about White Buffalo Women and it talks about our medicine (spirituality) “Letting the Spirit be the judge was a traditional practice of native people in the distant past. If someone from outside their clan or tribe comes to them seeking spiritual knowledge, they knew that they had no right to judge this person or their spiritual intent. That was for spirit to decide.” Spirit made an executive decision, and I stand by it. PS the book is called Buffalo Woman Comes Singing by Brooke Medicine Eagle 😂

[@vickiward6149]

The natives deserve way more respect them they ever get 😢

[@PeachyKeen84]

Why? Just a flat WHY is it so important to connect the two continents? We are all human that’s really all we need to know. Respect each other please. No matter what!

[@jmcg9822]

We are all human and share common ancestors but there are groups who have fought to discredit and delegitimize indigenous people’s claims to the Americas by saying that we weren’t here first, that we ourselves were later colonizers, or even that we never existed in the first place and were made up. Some natives aren’t bothered as they know their history and don’t care what others say, but others like myself know that factual scientific evidence that proves our existence is another form of protection for us and our cultures.

[@cheretodd9949]

Do you really not understand why this knowledge is so important? So much history was lost when the white Europeans genocided 90% of the indigenous population, don't you see why it's important to recover as much history as we can?

[@CBPunisher1900]

​@@cheretodd9949whites didn't genocide anyone and fyi so called native Americans are from asia aka asian Americans is what they are

[@MossyMozart]

@@CBPunisher1900 - I see that you are undereducated regarding the history between the European invaders of the Americas and the way they treated Native People, from the Artic to Patagonia. Driving people from their land, enslaving them, outright murdering them was done by those of European descent, frequently as policy. In the North American colonies alone you have examples of ethnic cleansing, by distributing to Natives, blankets infected with small pox. Another horrifying example was the Sullivan-Clinton-Brodhead Campaign in 1779 sent out by George Washington to destroy the villages and crops of those in the Iroquois Confederacy who were British Loyalists. They were also to bring back as many prisoners as possible. The 4,500 troops not only destroyed villages loyal to the British, but also those that were neutral and _even allies._ They killed men, women, children, infants, and the elderly. They slashed and burned all the crops and animals they could find. They did not return with prisoners as ordered, though. Can you guess why? Over 5,000 survivors fled to Fort Niagara in Canada. With the shortage of food and an especially harsh winter (unrelenting cold and 8 feet of snow), 1,000s died of starvation and exposure.

[@zipperpillow]

@@CBPunisher1900 Righteo! In case anybody missed that, "NATIVE AMERICANS ARE FROM ASIA!!!" Chant on that, Chief.

[@kwtgjad]

My first thought as I watched was: Would it have been equally valid to say that Europeans and Native Americans have a common ancestor rather than one having derived from the other? I like the way the documentary slowly opened itself up to different viewpoints. It's like a journey in humility.

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

But honestly...how much "humility" did he ACTUALLY "journey into Humility"??? I thought he was just feeling some self-pity that may. have given off a momentary appearance of "humility"...if that is what it was, it did NOT last very long!

[@kwtgjad]

@@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad I read it as a set up to drive home a point. Not a real position. That’s how I saw it.

[@leapfrog7148]

It gives me chills

[@ObamAmerican48]

Thank you, Eske. Science always moves forward, errors are made, new research provides new information, we'll never know all there is to know about our world. I applaud him for taking this on.

[@joelewis5187]

I am still trying to understand what you are trying to prove, the Tower of Babel story where creator separated the languages and the people, or the ice bridge theory??? Like the lady said, we have better things to do with our funds. To help our people to survive this intrusion on our way of life and help our people.

[@zipperpillow]

Hey, "our way of life"? Explain those blues to the southern plantation owners who were forced to give up their slaves after the civil war. Don't be such a sore loser. Look on the bright side: you don't live in a cave, nibbling tiny ears of corn, drinking stale water from a gourd. And yet you still can if you want to.

[@gins8781]

I wondered the same thing. Is the goal to trace each distinct genetic group of humans back to a single origin?

[@zipperpillow]

@@gins8781 I suspect the exercise is to test the proposition of "Property", and the limitations of "property rights". What can and cannot be owned.

[@gins8781]

@@zipperpillow Seems like a reasonable conclusion.

[@LittleOrla]

We get this compassionate story of the great people and civilizations from Al Jazeera, not U.S. media. That alone says alot. Thank you, bless you.

[@malenedietl3369]

When will some people learn to respect the limits of other peoples. This film shows the consequenses of this lack of respect. Some reparations have been done here, but what about all the other victims of abuse? She expressed that clearly here 33:11 - 33:20.

[@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad]

YES, THAT WAS SUCH A POWERFUL MOMENT....AND ALSO AT 18:20-ISH...THAT WHOLE CONVERSATION BUT ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE JUST LOOKED AT HIM AND CALMLY SAID, "IT'S BEEN GENOCIDAL ESKE" IT WAS A WOMAN EACH TIME TOUGH TRUTHTELLING HAPPENED. I COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE ALSO, HOW HE SIMPLY COULD *NOT* ALLOW EITHER OF THESE WOMEN TO FINISH THEIR SENTENCES....I CHEERED WHEN SHE GOT THOSE POWERFUL AND NECESSARY FEW WORDS IN EDGEWISE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT!

[@rw8612]

This documentary needs a part two to include the Aboriginal American Indians (copper colored Indians reclassified to black, mullato, negro and now African American) of the Northeast and Southeast of America. Our Ancestors experienced massive genocide physically and through paper reclassification genocide which killed the Indian and preserved the men, women and children to chattel slavery. Only showing the plains Indians of the west coast is not considering the whole ancient history of the American Indian and what settler colonialism did to our ancestors. I do appreciate your work on this journey.

[@westho7314]

Plains Indians of the west coast?

[@Beyond1467]

✊🏾🪶🪶🪶

[@odilbekb-sarkaev1052]

The y-chromosome of Anzick-1 was sequenced, and researchers determined that his y-chromosome haplogroup is Q-L54*(xM3), one of the major founding lineages of the Americas. This not even European Y lineage 😂

[@ERIN478]

I'm grateful to see his example of moral courage in admitting that he had been influenced by his European-ancestry biases.

[@getsmart321]

Amid disagreements over native ceremonies and beliefs which came into direct conflict with the Catholic church and other Christian religions, North American indigenous tribes and peoples have been praised for supporting the United States military to defend their land against terrorism. Ultimately, peace is the goal for all against dangerous criminality and forced fundamentalist radical hate groups factions; be they Islamic, Christian, or Satanic. Elders from tribes throughout history have legally sought and written laws to protect their people. One of the last conversations Russell Means supported was the fact that we needed more Native lawyers to continue to safeguard generations in Washington. Natives need to advocate legally for themselves inside of how the laws have been written establishing continued protection for our lands. Russell Means was right in his recommendation. Haaland is not able to do this alone. Even she is a minority in her own domain who succumbs to corporate dominance. The best thing about individuals, tribes, and governance working together is that cultural heritage can be preserved and studied for the future.

[@highestgood5169]

Excellent doc.

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thanks for watching!

[@ChristineEbadi]

Great scientist. He was able to take a step back and view the science objectively and recognize that his subjective view was his blind spot. Also… I’ve always perceived the Indigenous peoples of the Americas as sacred ❤

[@ChristineEbadi]

@bannock_bashi you are correct ✅ the only people who can place value on themselves, are the people themselves, and not others - that being said, no one asked you to comment on my comment, and spread your negativity over my love. Take your short comings elsewhere.

[@larsstougaard7097]

I went to school with that guy , him and his brother were wild and extreme. We all thought they would either do great things in life or end up in prison. His brother is director of Denmarks Nation Museum.

[@gew2027]

Emblem of the Americas 1798 the Americans . The Trans Pacific Slave trade from Chinos to Natives

[@king_apache7138]

I feel like I'm losing my mind because why dont we search in Mexico and South of the US border? People may have came through the Bering straight but we are forgetting that America is a continent not a country and we may have ancestors coming from South America up north and integrating with peoples like the Eskimo

[@zainabamadahy9918]

Good point. In fact, DNA from the Pacific Islands has been found all over what is now South America. And plants like sweet potato, indigenous. to S. America were cultivated across the Pacific Islands. No one talks about those relationships of people & culture because it doesn't support White supremacy. By the way the "Eskimo" call themselves Inuit.

[@zipperpillow]

Go do it, king. Who is stopping you from finding the truth?

[@ignaciovarga3162]

The reason you feel that way is because they are straight blowing smoke up your alley. The truth is that the greatest civilization that rivaled all others belongs to the Aztec/Meshika, Mayans and Peruvians. Matter of fact these are the only three types of native Americans. This whole continent is our homeland! They are so envious of that. They will lie cheat steal and kill for it.

[@Starfish2145]

I’m shocked she kept a five-year-old skeleton in a box in her closet all those years.

[@JonDoeNeace]

There are six to fifteen Native American DNA strands that converged throughout pre history and post colonial history. The oldest ones we can delineate, likely entered the Bering within 40,000-7,000 years ago . The newest ones are White, Black, and Spanish intermarriage into Native bloodlines from colonial and modern times. *Founding Native American lineage C1 & derivatives:* South American Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, some North American Natives, Inuit & Alaskan Natives, and Mongolians. *Entered the Bering roughly 15,000 years ago* *Founding Native American lineage X2a:* North Atlantic Native American. Exclusively. Closest genetic relatives are in Altai, and Europe. Although it's absent from those regions. *Entered the Bering roughly 7,000 years ago* *Founding Native American lineage B4 & derivatives (B4b & B4'5):* North American Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, South American Natives, Han Chinese, Austronesians, Vietnamese. *Entered the Bering roughly 40,000 years ago* *Founding Native American lineage D1:* North American Natives, Inuit & Alaskan Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, South American Natives, Ainu/Jomon & Japanese, Himalayan. *Entered the Bering roughly 15,000 years ago .* *Founding Native American lineage D4:* Inuit & Alaskan Natives, North American Natives. *Entered the Bering between 3,000-5,000 years ago.* *Founding Native American lineage A2:* Inuit & Alaskan Natives, North American Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, South American Natives, Kamchatka in Russian Far East Natives. *Entered the Bering roughly 10,000 years ago* *Founding Native American Australasian lineage:* South American Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, Interior Amazon Natives, Melanesian, Papuan, Aeta, Native Australian. *Entered the Bering roughly 15,000 years ago* *West African admixture in Native Americans:* North American Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, South American Natives, and West Africa. *Arrived by intermarriage from runaways & slave trade from 1500-1900.* *European admixture in Native Americans:* North American Natives, Inuit & Alaskan Natives, Mesoamerican Natives, South American Natives, and Europe. *Entered by intermarriage during colonialism from 1492-1800. And by intermarriage during immigration & U.S.-American admixture from 1800-1940.* And that's who Native Americans are.

[@tikioluu2321]

A2 🎉

[@CBPunisher1900]

U forgot Vikings who were in America 1000 years ago

[@JonDoeNeace]

@@CBPunisher1900 I didn't. They're noteworthy, yes. I didn't include them because from .y understanding they didn't widely admix with Native American tribes.

[@JonDoeNeace]

@@CBPunisher1900 Note: I didn't include ALL colonials, ALL modern European immigrants, ALL 1800s-1900s U.S.-Americans, or ALL West African origin Americans. I said only the ones who intermarried into Native American tribes and their descendants. You see? I don't see any evidence of Vikings doing such a thing. So I included the ADMIXTURE among Natives from White & Black people, but not ALL White & Black people, you see? I wasn't saying West African or European is Native. It's not. But for Natives who have West African or European lineage, that's how it got there. From modern & colonial mingling. No equivalent exists for Vikings I'm afraid.

[@zipperpillow]

Thank you for your service.

[@44DimensionSeven]

To people refuting his findings : replicate his findings, show sources, present your degrees in a scientific field or even just describe the basics of the scientific method

[@junebrilly5302]

Astonishing Documentary. Thankyou, Aljazeera!!❤

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thanks for watching, dear June!

[@Seele08]

Although the scientific motivation of this study seems unbiased. It strikes the conscience to think that it’s always the same narrative of white European/American men in science thinking that indigenous people are their project or that they have to validate their history/identity. Clearly Native Americans were here first no matter how much distortion of history this country has attempted to uphold. White European colonial settlers and white Americans before/after the US established its sovereignty committed genocide to the native peoples of this land. Now if you need to prove yourself who came “before” them, for purposes that are not logically sounding to begin with then you’re part of the problem. If you have to use the law of a country that has oppressed and stolen even looted Native Americans over and over again to fulfill your scientific fetish then you are no different from any one making stupid and racist claims about Native Americans. Respect their rights and their word (consent). Do not excavate and meddle with the remains of their people!!!! Especially if they do not consent to it the first time!!! White savior complex much? When he was told he’d be a hero?

[@kashiffiroz6667]

What words, powerful and resounding. However despite not being a white man myself , i would still want to mention that not everyone is the same. While it may seem obvious sometimes, we should refrain from generalization

[@stephenborunda]

It's now well-known that there were a variety of migrations into the Americas from Asia (which may have even included some largely sea-based migrations along the coasts on boats, which explains why Chile has the second oldest known site in the Americas after New Mexico). Asia is next to Europe, so it's not surprising that SOME of the populations entering the Americas MAY have been of partial European descent. I am unsure why Willerslev seemed to be immediately trying to connect the results from ONE of these POTENTIAL migratory populations to seemingly ALL Indigenous groups today. That suggestion would be absurd based on one or even several samples. I am glad his final conclusion that there was a final unique group that emerged that became the ancestors of Indigenous peoples today--a conclusion that is far more interesting and accurate.

[@covfefe1787]

Becuase all native groups are genetically very close to each other. the Americas are the least gentically diverse race on earth and the youngest one too.

[@stephenborunda]

@@covfefe1787 as the video highlights, Indigenous peoples were breaking off as Europeans and Asians as coherent genetic groups were also forming. It is likely more accurate to say the Americas are one of the newest locations to be massively populated. 20-25,000 years ago (as footprints in New Mexico prove) is nothing to sneeze at though.

[@leonardmaestas1428]

There is colonialist science and indigenous science. One serves to dominate people, the other serves humanity and enlightens.

[@zipperpillow]

Wrong.

[@karenjane7762]

Oh ha ha ha.

[@D.P.Pasemko]

How could he re-interpret the data if the data was destroyed as he said?

[@rizz_the_dog]

They destroyed all the data, made new data. Very easy with the technology and the new DNA stuff that's going on. Nowadays a lot of DNA technicians are going to jail for creating fake convictions of people

[@MossyMozart]

Get more specimens.

[@Starfish2145]

Of course Native Americans were here first. How is that even a question?

[@DAUDYBENYAHUAH]

The true "holy land".

[@jmc8076]

Many still not aware of some parts of history of US, Canada and Mexico in relation to native/ aboriginal/ indigenous peoples. Why was Smithothian not incl?

[@vivalapalestine7235]

You guys make some really good documentary . This was a truly beautiful film and I appreciate the work and research you guys . This was very respectful to native Americans and very informative at the same time .

[@aljazeeraenglish]

We are glad you loved it! Thanks for your positive feedback!

[@ignaciovarga3162]

This is a nice documentary but al jazeer did not make it. They are taking credit for someone else's work. I have seen all of this before there is nothing new here. They just edited the original video a bit.

[@qwertyuiopgarth]

The summation of the Lake Baikal remains is inaccurate. At most they have found the remains of an individual from a family whose descendants include both Europeans and Native Americans (with both groups having significant admixture from other lineages). Interesting, but in no way, shape, or form, an invalidation of Native American claims to the Americas.