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To: E. Charters who wrote (88720)	8/12/2002 10:22:29 AM
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Do they come from same stock? Strong similarities exist in the lifestyles, rituals and symbols of ancient East Asians and native Americans, says expert STRAITS TIMES CHINA BUREAU BEIJING - The famous Lake Tahoe in California provides a vital piece of evidence supporting the theory that ancient East Asians and native Americans are of the same stock, said a Chinese expert. History professor Yang Liwen, who founded Beijing University's Canadian Studies Centre, said Tahoe is the local Indian word for 'great lake' while dahu means the same in Chinese. Having visited many Indian reservations and archaeological sites across Canada, Prof Yang told The Straits Times there are remarkable similarities in the traditional lifestyles of Canadian aboriginal people and the Chinese. Canadian Indians' fishing ways, for example, bear an uncanny resemblance to ancestral ways in southern China. Symbols, rituals and altars too bear strong similarities. Attending a 1999 aboriginal cultural exhibition in British Columbia, Canada, he was struck by a symbol on a tribe's totem pole. It was a Chinese yin-yang symbol. When he visited the site commemorating those who died in the 1885 Riel Rebellion in Saskatchewan, the guide said that the dead's heads were pointed westward because they believed their ancestors came from Asia. In Arizona, symbols found on 7,000-year-old Indian pottery resemble the 'Eight Diagrams' depicted in the Yijing, or Book Of Changes. In fact, there are plenty of symbols which appear to come from the Yangshao Culture, which once thrived in China's Henan province. For example, symbols similar to the legendary taotie - a fierce flesh-eating monster found on ancient Chinese bronze vessels - or Chinese characters such as wan (reverse swastika), tian (heaven), were discovered at ancient Indian sites in Mexico. Words and place names also sound alike, he added. Mexican Indians call rivers 'he' and Chilean aboriginals call their young children 'wawa'. Both sounds have the same meanings in Chinese. Prof Yang said Americans criss-crossed the Pacific 4,000-5,000 years ago, bringing to Asia plants such as corn, peanuts, tobacco, formerly unique to the Americas. The common-stock theory dated back to the 1960s when scientists found that people with 'China transferrins' - a beta globulin in blood serum - live in East Asia and South Asia, Finland, Central America and the northern part of South America. Prof Yang even suggests a possible direct link between Tibetans and native Americans.