Amerind

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Health & Science article “Easter Island’s people weren’t alone” stated that South American Amerind DNA in the Easter Island population resulted from islanders bringing people back from South America.

From Washington Post

The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Southwest; and Amerind, much the biggest family, spoken everywhere else, including all of Central and South America.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond