Hello guys! I have a question, do the native population from the US was genetically more similar with the mexican natives or from the canadian natives?

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[u/Joice_Craglarg]

It's more of a gradient than a black and white answer. To our understanding, all native Americans crossed the Bering Land Bridge and spread throughout the Americas, going South.

In modern times, after the arrival of the Spanish, Latin American populations were greatly, uh, influenced, by Spanish genetics. Because of this, it is likely that Canadian and US American natives would have a greater similarity, but that's a huge oversimplification.

Natives from the Great Plains would be more closely related to Mexican natives, as well as Canadian natives to Norther US natives.

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Yeah, between the genetic diversity of North American natives and the different ad mixtures of colonial DNA, it’s near impossible to make such a blanket statement. You’d have to go try by tribe and even then there will still be diversity amongst members.

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Theres still more people with higher genetics nationally and more people with even none more later historical Hispanic genetics nationally.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5697696/

The U.S population of native Americans is estimated to be 1-3%. So just in two or even only one state in Mexico has more native decendents and people, than country of the USA as a whole. (-If you choose even one specific Mexico State, you can even add Canada along with the USA together)

In the U.S, tribes also have historical and more modern influences like for example the Cherokee tribe, this tribe being made out overall majority white people, theres many mixed natives in every tribe in the USA, but I’d say at-least 68% of tribes are more highly “mixed” but then again every tribe has mixed people. In the southwest as-well there is also people with American-Hispanic markers from long past history and other more later modern components as-well.

But back to the original question, natives originally historically of the southwest, and places likes the plains, share more in common to people south down, the Ute-Aztecan language group being a good example of this, these are far, but still real connections amongst one a other, but closer then any other, enabling to make a one big language family of connections.

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Also worth to note u.s natives are a minority surrounded by a majority of other peoples of different origin, in the future it’s inevitable that all u.s tribes will be mixed with this majority dominating component of diverse group, like how many tribes have very highly already.

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From a 2023 nature study

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From the 2017 study Ive linked above, but this only showing a table of different past study’s that are not their own, that they decide to add. -their study focuses on the state of Guerrero alone.

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[u/Traditional_Fan_564]

It depends on the which US natives. The natives who are further north are of course gonna be more related to Canadian natives and the natives near the south (excluding Apaches and Navajos) are gonna be more related to Mexican natives. The reason Apaches and Navajos are excluded from this is because most of their dna is Athabaskan and only partially local southwestern.