The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

Puebloan tradition holds that the ancestors had achieved great spiritual power and control over natural forces, and used their power in ways that caused nature to change, and caused changes that were never meant to occur.

Permission was given, and Hasan Ali Shah's mother and a few relatives were sent to Najaf and other holy cities in Iraq in which the shrines of his ancestors, the Shiite Imams are found.

Each of the Greek ethne were said to be named in honor of their respective ancestors: Achaeus of the Achaeans, Danaus of the Danaans, Cadmus of the Cadmeans ( the Thebans ), Hellen of the Hellenes ( not to be confused with Helen of Troy ), Aeolus of the Aeolians, Ion of the Ionians, and Dorus of the Dorians.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

The ancestors of today's African American population were brought to the United States as slaves, working primarily in the plantations of the South.

In the 2000 Census, 11, 941 people reported they were of Aleut ancestry ; nearly 17, 000 said Aleuts were among their ancestors.

In the Triassic period some groups of archosaurs ( a group that includes the ancestors of crocodiles ) developed bipedalism ; among their descendants the dinosaurs, all the early forms and many later groups were habitual or exclusive bipeds ; the birds descended from one group of exclusively bipedal dinosaurs.

A significant number in the eastern Cape frontier later became Grensboere (" border farmers ") who were the direct ancestors of the Voortrekkers.

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

Historians agree that the leaders of the new state were ancestors of the Kanembu people.

The Carboniferous lycophytes of the order Lepidodendrales, which are cousins ( but not ancestors ) of the tiny club-moss of today, were huge trees with trunks 30 meters high and up to 1. 5 meters in diameter.

The Cladoxylopsids were large trees, that were ancestors of ferns, first arising in the Carboniferous.

European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

Cape Breton Island's first residents were likely Maritime Archaic natives, ancestors of the Mi ' kmaq, the latter of whom inhabited the island at the time of European discovery.

Many ethnic groups were involved, including ancestors of the Turks, Mongols, and Tibetans.

Most of Coolidge's ancestors were farmers.

Barks once stated that his paternal ancestors were Dutch and his maternal ancestors were Scottish.

His maternal grandparents were Carl Johnson and his wife Suzanna Massey, but little else is known about his ancestors.

" It is also stated that, " Origin can be considered as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States.

Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States ; her mother, Lorraine M. ( née Rykiss ), is originally from Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada with ancestors from Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.

There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States ; 800, 000 in Brazil, whose ancestors were deported by the government of Portugal during the colonial era ; and in more recent migrations, Romani have also moved to other parts of the Americas.

His most ambitious book was the four volume narrative The Winning of the West, which connected the origin of a new " race " of Americans ( i. e. what he considered the present population of the United States to be ) to the frontier conditions their ancestors endured throughout the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.

Modesty, Tubman's maternal grandmother, arrived in the United States on a slave ship from Africa ; no information is available about her other ancestors.

He created both the Alpha and Beta tests ancestors to today's ASVAB, a multiple choice test, administered by the United States Military Entrance Processing Command, used to determine qualification for enlistment in the United States armed forces.

He spoke of a relationship between the United States and Denmark " based on respect and common values and ideals " which was forged by individuals " who have made a new home without forgetting the old nation of their ancestors.

Spencer was born in the Hudson River valley south of Albany ; his ancestors included a United States Supreme Court Chief Justice and two governors of New York.

A notable feature of the abbey is the 14th century Washington Window, featuring the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

In the early nineteenth century, as the Abolitionist movement gained momentum in Boston, supporters lauded Attucks as a black American who played a heroic role in the history of the United States Because Attucks had Wampanoag ancestors, his story also holds special significance for many Native Americans.

" This suggests that John Louis Brown's ancestors were among the early European settlers of what became the United States of America.

The ancestors of today's African American population were brought to the United States as slaves, working primarily in the plantations of the South.

His father's ancestors came to the United States from the Middle East at the turn of the century.

Membership is limited to descendants of ancestors who " rendered loyal service for Texas " prior to February 19, 1846, the date the Republic ceased to exist and Texas handed over authority to the United States.

In 1819 Florida was sold by Spain to the United States by Adams – Onís Treaty, many Spanish settlers, whose ancestors came from Cuba, Andalusia, and Canary Islands, became U. S. citizens and continued to speak Spanish.

His various tendencies may be inherited from one of his first ancestors to immigrate to the United States.

More than two centuries later, some of the descendants of Loyalists still assert claims to their ancestors ' property in the United States.

The first of the Lowell family ancestors to come to the United States from Britain was Percival Lowle, who settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1639.

Reparations for slavery is a proposal that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States, in consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over centuries.

A notable feature of the Abbey is the 14th century Washington Window, featuring the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

Many Confederado descendants have traveled to the United States at the invitation of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an American descendants ' organization, to visit Civil War battlefields, attend re-enactments, or see where their ancestors lived.

Today more people with ancestors from Amrum live in the United States than there are on Amrum proper.