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However Sigríður Sunna also states that "while a Native American origin seems most likely for [this new haplogroup], an Asian or European origin cannot be ruled out". [175] In 2014, a study discovered a new mtDNA subclade C1f from the remains of three people found in north-western Russia and dated to 7,500 years ago.
Quan is the first Asian American woman elected mayor of a major American city. Quan is Oakland's first Asian American mayor. [71] 2010: Ed Lee is appointed as Mayor of San Francisco, California. [71] 2010: Ed Wang was the first full-blooded Chinese player to both be drafted and to play in the NFL.
The report is the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America before the contact with Europeans, stating that X-ray fluorescence identified two of these artifacts as smelted industrial alloys with large proportions of tin and lead. The presence of smelted alloys in a prehistoric Inuit context in northwest Alaska was ...
The 1587 event marks the first documented instance of Asians in what is now California, [33] or anywhere in what is now the United States, [4] [34] North America, [35] the Americas. [36] The landing of the first Filipinos at Morro Bay, which occurred 33 years before the events at Plymouth Rock, [b] is often overlooked, even by Filipino ...
1974, Benjamin Menor appointed first Filipino American in a state's highest judiciary office as Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. [115] Thelma Buchholdt is the first Filipino American, and first Asian American, woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, in the Alaska House of Representatives. [116] [117]
Clovis toolmaking technology appears in the archaeological record in much of North America between 12,800 and 13,500 years ago. Older blades with this attribute have yet to be discovered from sites in either Asia or Alaska. [3] The idea of a Clovis-Solutrean link remains controversial and does not enjoy wide acceptance.
The west coast of North America likely saw the first sustained arrival of people to the continent.Although there are other theories, most scientists believe that the first significant groups of people came from Asia, through today's Bering Strait area, then through modern Alaska, and from there spread throughout North America and to South America.
Images from a Harper's Magazine article on "the Lacustrine village" of Saint Malo, Louisiana, where Filipino migrants settled in the 18th century.. The first Asian-origin people known to arrive in North America after the beginning of the European colonization were a group of Filipinos known as "Luzonians" or Luzon Indians.