But Siberia is a vast land that has been home to many cultures over thousands of years. Researchers turned to DNA in hopes of clarifying which of these were the ancestors of Native Americans.

While theories suggest that Native Americans are descended from people who migrated north from Japan, new research suggests that the earliest inhabitants of the Americas were descended from people ...

The study affirms what native people’s oral traditions have known for centuries, said Shane Doyle, professor of Native American studies at Montana State University and member of the Crow tribe.

A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly ...

Science has long known that people living in what is now Siberia once walked (and later paddled boats) across the Bering Strait into North America.But new evidence now shows that these early ...

Unlike the tour guides of Tunguska Nature Reserve in Central Siberia, the Evenkis who live here say that there was no meteorite; what happened was the appearance of Agdy, the god of thunder, a ...

Maybe a Native American, maybe an ancestor related to the Mal'ta boy from Siberia and another one who was East Asian. We don't know. But our results eliminate all other theories about the origins ...

Many Christian denominations in recent years have repudiated a doctrine that was used to justify the subjugation of Native and Indigenous people. That's now playing out in local congregations.