Amerind

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.

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

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.

It is not clear why the Chipewyans and others speak a Na-Dene language if most of their DNA is from Amerind speakers.

Enough has been said to show that such status was widely different from that usually attributed to the women of the Amerinds.