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Pan-Indigenous origin traditions: emergence from the north, the sea-crossing ancestors
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Pan-Indigenous origin traditions: emergence from the north, the sea-crossing ancestors

Red race migration from Asia to the Americas across the Bering land bridge
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Red race migration from Asia to the Americas across the Bering land bridge

Red race migration from Asia to the Americas across the Bering land bridge = Pan-Indigenous origin traditions: emergence from the north, the sea-crossing ancestors

Informed SpeculationModerate evidenceIndigenous American

The Connection

The UB records that "the red man entered the Western Hemisphere" around 85,000 BCE by the Bering land bridge, and that the red race was the most advanced of the colored races before its isolation. Many Indigenous American origin traditions describe the first ancestors emerging from a northern source, following the buffalo or a sacred guide, and crossing a cold or icy threshold into the present lands. The shared memory of a northern origin and a threshold-crossing migration maps onto the Bering corridor entry the UB describes, a corridor now confirmed by genetic and archaeological evidence.

UB Citation

UB 64:6.4, 64:6.7, 64:7.1

Academic Source

Hultkrantz, The Religions of the American Indians (1979); Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here (2018)

Historical Evidence(Moderate evidence)

David Reich's genetic research in Who We Are and How We Got Here confirms a Beringian origin for the founding Indigenous American populations, with deep ancestral ties to East Asian and ancient North Eurasian stocks. ร…ke Hultkrantz documented the northern-origin motif across Indigenous cosmologies, from the Lenape Walam Olum through Algonquian and Siouan traditions. The UB dates the red race entry to 85,000 BCE (64:7.1), earlier than the mainstream 15,000-30,000 BCE range but consistent with recent proposals for earlier Pleistocene migrations.

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