New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26
ORIGIN OF MAN IN AMERICA.
ONE RACE. BIT WIDELY DIVERSIFIED
-porsNNDs n YEARS NEEDED TO ACCOUNT FOR
THE OBSERVED VARIATIONS IF THE
EARLY INDIANS CAME FROM An
OTHER CONTINENT IT WAS
LONG AGO

Tho preliminary proposition says III. Thomas
U,so, ~ tho United States Natiop1- Museum
IN a recent roport is that the American race d
Indians ia nra~tically the same throughout the
entjr. hemisphere With all their diversity OF
anatomy and physiology ("hlch hNcfS'F'
nv tho vav is not greater am ns Ihn-
ians ,han il is among various members 81 the
Whit or black rAces) they arr OF the same type
and form but a -inel. race. Or Brh'oh Ea''
this As his opinion in his address before '"o
Section Of AnthropOlogy Of the American H'S"-
citation for the Advanccmen 81 S'i'h'' ~ 10
New-York meeting. 1t is the basis u MS DOOM
on The American Race" Darwin remarks 'he
close family resemblance between distant ulDes
in America Or. Coleman asserts IN" "SS'h''a'
physic.l identity - The American lniiah. Slar'-
ing. then. with this assumption 81 me In'h''y
Of race il is - h- argued that IT began IN Amer
lea in one Of ,wo ways either by evolution fi"in
the lower animals or by migration a man from
other countries.
In whichever # these ways tn" red man APP
peared in America. We are entitled L" suppose
and may fairly argue, that In the beginning the
race was here represented by but few IndlVid-
uals There may have been but single par
or there may have been a hundred pairs oi IN
dviduas Either number VIII suit the HBu-
ment. Accepting. then. as fact the beginning
Of the red man in America with sinaI' NUMBER
Of individuals. II follows that they occupied
restricted locality. This particular locality may
have been on the east coast or IN the vest
coast may have been north or south. Inc North
American Indian has been this hemisphere
such a length Of time that. branching out from
this little colony in single locality by ordinary
procreatiOn he had 50 increased in numbers
that at the zine Of the discovery by Columbus
Is estimated that there were from nv" milllohS
to eleven millions
From the single locality which the small cot
ony originally inhabited 1t had also extehde"
Itself territorillly. and had popuIa'"h pretty
equally the hemisphere from the Arctc '"c'e
on the north 10 Terra del Fucgo on me SOUTH
and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east 10 Inv
Pacific ocean on the west
The confusion Of tongues and increase IN the
number Of languages among the INDIANS - an
other evidence Of their antiquity. when Tie
first colony # Indians appeared whether ny
evolution or migration. thcy could nave spoken
practically but one language. Suppos@. IN case
Of migration, that they spoke many languages
prior to their coming together on thee" to Item
foreign shores. after their arrival they would
Inevitably speak but one language They would
invent comm IN language If none existed MS
would not be difficult for colony small IN
numbers With this for starting POINT. we
may see what they have done They spread
themselves up and down the valleys. across the
rivers. and over the mountains. While at first
they may have retained their communication
WIN the parent colony and kept up their original
anguagc it continued only while those relations