Lots of Haida have red hair. No idea why. Vikings didn't get to the Charlottes.
That tribe from Japan that’s almost extinct now could’ve been over here spreading their genes. It’s the tribe that they figured was the closest genetically to the Snake River Man found in I believe Washington state….& dated to something like 9500BC.
That’s an interesting, read all by itself, and the politics surrounding that find once they realized it’s age, with red hair, 6 foot tall, Washington state, and 11,000 years ago or something like that. Crazy stuff. They did a facial reconstruction and I tell you it looked like John Luke Pikard from Star Trek.
I’m pulling this out of my backside at this point because this was an archeological magazine (yeah bit of a Geek) I read about 20 or 25 years ago.
Punchline is that they were doing road construction, near the junction of two Rivers (Snake & another) and came across a body. It was in great shape, so they called the coroner. Upon further inspection, the coroner found the tip of a stone spear in this guy’s hip, so he called to a university to get an archeologists over to the morgue.
Archeologist takes samples, does carbon dating, and it turns out the body they found is 10,000 years old, and 6’ tall, red hair, so they get in a crime scene artist with her Play-Doh….& she reconstructs the face….& it’s a dead ringer for Patrick Stewart. They publish. Whoopsies…
Before the faecal matter impacted the rotary device, with the DNA sampling taken, they compare it against current living populations, & the closest match is some tribe in Japan that’s almost extinct (many with red hair, and significantly taller than the rest of the population, with only about 200 members left in it at that point in time not mixed with the rest of the Japanese population).
Immediately several different native tribes claim the body, want all of the samples taken, etc…etc…& court battles ensue. Only geeky dudes are following this, and the body gets turned over to some tribe, and samples, and everything else found with the body…. And it fades into the sunset. I think the concern at the time was that it was going to upset the apple cart with respect to treaties, etc… I’m a bit of a hoarder comes to Books. I wonder if I still have that magazine somewhere???