that is the problem when civil persons put their worthless interruptions on military things; I am a Marines so I know of the Navajo; I was born amongst the Comanche since I was born at FortsILL and raised in Lawton; My Mother is full Hawaiian;

So, what motivated the Cherokee to leave the St Lawrence River area and move south in the 1600s?

@@robertbates6057 Good question. There were several tribes that moved from the north to the south. The Dene peoples such as the Navajo and the Apache and comanche were famous tribes that did that. I wonder what was happening in the north during those times.

@@loquat44-40 I know that by 1600, disease decimated the southern native tribes / kingdoms. The Apalache kingdom of N GA and southern highlands was very powerful until disease reduced their population by up to 90%. Survivors of the Apalache, Soque, chickasaw, ...eventually banded together to create the Creek confederacy. Maybe it was an opportunity to move into a power vacuum. I think the Iroquois and other NE nations had been exposed earlier, perhaps by the Vikings?I have read that the Cherokee were pushed out of the NE but not sure why / how. Much history is finally coming out about native American cultures with the help of modern technologies such as DNA, LIDAR, computer record searches and linguistics. As a long time history nut, it's an exciting time.

@@robertbates6057 I love your answer. It is shame that there has been little respect of native american graves since many answers might found in such materials that have been destroyed. But people have been migrating for just about forever. The ancestors of the Aztecs were said to have been from somewhere else and moved before the time of columbus. Now the vikings or others spreading disease is a good question. There have walrus hunters going north for many centuries. I could see via contact of such hunters with Inuit or other native american spreading disease to the americas. There is even a carved stone that the Creek Architect Thornton found in Georgia that may depict bronze age vessels and symbols from Scandinavia. Sami like peoples might be the source of such. So much that we do not know.

@@loquat44-40 LOL! I've read a lot of Richards' work. Amazing stuff.

Well, if born on the North American Continent, or in the America's in general, then they were American. The Mexican born soldiers could I guess be called Mexican American. The Calusa Indians of SW Florida were another formidable Indian Tribe of some 50,000 whom the Spanish encountered in the 1600's and who sent Mercenaries into the Carolina's to fight other Indian Tribes, and which were so successful against the Spanish that the Spanish had to plan on losing Four military to every one of the Calusa (Which means the Fierce Ones) who in their history claimed to have ancestry from paleo-Indians who crossed the Continent hunting Mastadon etc., and eventually settling in Florida where they became orientated to fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Their males were typically six feet in height and very powerfully built, and they trained also in war fare craft using a variety of weapons, said to be somewhat different from other Indian Tribes.

@@donald2665 Thank you for you very educational reply and for being respectful towards someone else’s point of view. I salute you Sir.

I disagree, sounds bias to me.

I disagreed also.

Biased with this comment? This is why our people can’t and will not ever stand united with thinking like this. It’s like saying I’m the best Native because I’m Hunkpapa Lakota. Stand united or keep falling standing divided.

Not the Comanche they everyone and everything tooth and nail stop trying to be a plains native