The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-04-10
TRACES ANCIENT
AMER|C PEOPLE
Woman Explorer Says They Came
by Sea From Asia

Washington, d. c., April 10.-Harriet
Chalmers Adams. one of America
foremost women explorers, who has
Just returned from IA journey along the
fringe OF Asia, where she has been
studying the peoples from Siberia In
Sumatra i'm an attempt to trace the
original American, i'm communication
TO the National Geographic society, al
Washington, -. c.. expresses the be-
lief that the ancient "Americ" peoples
came by sea, possibly in broken stag
es, from Asia.
This earlier immigration, however
was at a very remote period, for our
prehistoric monuments point Ia an in
digenous culture" says Mrs. Adams.
"A branch of an old World race, these
early Americans evolved To their
highest civilization on New World
SOIL She expresses confidence that a
closer study of the Indo- Chinese
branch of the yellow Race. the Malay,
Chinese and Tibetan, as compared to
our prehistoric civilization, will throw
new light on the problem OF tracing
the original American.
For II years Mrs. Adams has been
studying the ancient civilization of the
New World. those which we call
"Americ.' She has Travelled all over
the Western Hemisphere from Canada
To TERRA del Fuego. through every
state in the United States and Mexico
and every country of Central and
South America. She outlines the an
cient American civilization as follows:
Pre-lncasiC People (before the In
cas). who bulded Tiahuanaco, now i'm
ruins near the Bolivian shore of Lake
Titicaca. This. as far as we know, is
the oldest city of the New World.
The people living there today are
Aymaras, Indians of the Bolivian
highlands, who were subjugated by the
lncas of Peru.
lncas, of Peru, who rose long after
Ttahuanaco fell. These were the Out
chua people whose capital was Cuzco,
Sacred City of the sun. They were
conquered by PiZarro and his follow
ers. Their descendants still speak the
Quichua tongue and retain many an
Gent customs. They live i'm the An
dean highlands of Peru. Mrs. Adams
thinks them the most interesting Am
orleans alive today. Ruins of their
temples and fortresses are strewn
throughout the Andean country and
even on the Eastern slopes of the An
des in the jungle. she says.
Mayas. of Central America, whose
ruins still exist
Toltccs and Aztecs, of Mexico, whose
blood flows in the Mexican of today.
Pueblos, of the United States, who
live principally i'm Arizona and New
Mexico today. The Zuni. Hopi and
many other tribes are included in the
Pueblos. each speaking its own tongue
These Indians represent the tribes liv-
ing in permanent stone or adobe hous-
es or settlements, when the white man
came, as apart from the nomadic
hunting tribes. In ancient days the
Pueblos extended from Colorado into
Mexico and from Arizona To Texas.
w iiii' ~ ltllliNlS hSltt llldl AIlltIlti
was peopled by way of the Northwest,
Mrs. Adams does not believe that all
early Americans came this way. In
the Philippines, Mrs. Adams saw Ifu-
gaos warriors who resemble Aymara
chiefs of the Andean highlands in
spite of the difference in climate.
This is not strange when we class the
lfuGaos as Malays of the IndO- Chinese
branch of the Yellow Race and believe
that Ancient America was peoped
from Asia" she says. Not only
among certain Malay mountain tribes.
but also in Western China was | con-
stantly reminded of things Americ,
but never among people of "a low grade |
Of civilization, only when among peo-
pie of ancient lineage. In olden days, |
great war canoes were padded by |
many oarsmen from one South Sea |
Island to another. 1t seems likely that |
in this fashion men set sail from the |
Malay Peninsula, with their wives
and children, food, household goods |
and domestic animals aboard, and. |
aided by wind and tide, reached the
Promised Land some palm fringed |
sic in the tropic sea-
Mrs. Adams has the records of % |
small boats that apparently were |
blown across the Pacific, one a Japan
use fishing boat which landed it's UNI
willing immigrants alive and well on |
californian soil two years ago.
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