What would you tell other Native Americans who are looking to join Peace Corps about serving overseas? I asked my good friend Baabar, a geneticist, about the similarities between American Indians and the Mongolian people. Part boulder, part myth, part treasure, one of Europes most enigmatic artifacts will return to the global stage May 6. (a) Language - Chinese Spoken. But this result makes a lot of sense regarding why they don't fit so well genetically with contemporary East Asiansbecause one-third of their genome is derived from another population.". google_color_link = "0000FF"; Visit The Elephant Story's profile on Pinterest. We had several Mongolian friends who wanted to help me translate and publish Baabars unwieldy manuscript in English. tooth suggests that people inhabiting a surprisingly large swath of Asia were the Bill grew up on an Indian reservation in Montana where his father was an educator. Prevailing theories suggest that Native Americans are descended from a group of East Asians who crossed the Bering Sea via a land bridge perhaps 16,500 years ago, though some sites may evidence an earlier arrival. But insteadof converging on a single consensus picture,the studies, published online in Science andNature, throw up a new mystery: Both detectin modern Native Americans a trace ofDNA related to that of native people fromAustralia and Melanesia. Intriguing questions also exist about the nature of the advanced Upper Paleolithic Mal'ta society that now appears to figure in Native American genomes. That suggests individual groups may have moved into the continents without mixing. For example, the Mongolian word for horse () can become my horse ( . The site is secure. Scientists already know how humans traveled to the Americas from Altai. for Me? General, Peace In my recruitment work, I want to make sure that Native Americans, and Americans of all backgrounds, have the opportunity to have a positive impact while representing their home communities abroad through Peace Corps service. Why did Russia sell Alaska to the United States?