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...Americas, a look at native tribes showed that they were not all blood brothers. The three main groups, classified by language, were found to be genetically distinct, suggesting that three separate populations from Asia may have crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story in Our Genes | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

Call Her Savage (Fox) is a blatant and tasteless libel on the Amerind, notable only because its heroine is impersonated by Clara Bow, who retired from the cinema in 1931 after winning a suit against her secretary, Daisy De Boe. When, after retiring to a Nevada ranch and marrying Actor Rex Bell, Cinemactress Bow announced last summer that she would resume acting, producers were dubious. They felt that Miss De Boe's revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Were American Indians Polynesians? Ales Hrdlicka (Smithsonian anthropologist now in Alaska) is certain that Mongolian-like peoples traveled across Bering Strait and eventually became Amerinds. Helen H. Roberts (of Yale's Institute of Human Relations) last week argued that Amerinds were originally Polynesians transported by canoe from the Pacific Islands. The Polynesian and American aborigines seem to have made cultural contacts long before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. in Syracuse | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...only person who can speak fluent Kitsai, an American Indian language which anthropologists consider the key to a considerable part of Amerind history. is a woman named Kai Kai who lives near Anadarko, Okla. Kai Kai, 83, pretends that she is dull and sullen. That is to protect her from importunate people. Really she is shrewd, intelligent, full of energy. Last week she knew that Anthropology was making a fuss about her solitary survival, that Dr. Alexander Lesser, financed by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, was transcribing & translating Kitsai history as she had dictated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Last of the Kitsai | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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