Many people wonder why Native American Indians don’t seem to have facial hair. In fact, their face is not the only place where they don’t have much hair growth. Native Americans have very sparse hair on the rest of their bodies as well. However, the common belief that Native Americans don’t have beards is absolutely wrong. They do have hair on the faces. It’s just very soft and sparse.
A Native American Man
The ancestry of Native Americans is similar to Asians. These races don’t have thick hair growth on their faces and bodies. In the old days, Native Americans used to pluck out even the sparse hair they had on their faces. Such was the tradition.
Not all Native Americans had problems growing beards and mustaches. There were several Navajo tribe leaders during the Long Walk era who sported hair on their upper lips.
Nowadays many Native American Indians have beards and mustaches. This is mostly due to the fact the cultures are mixing and there are more and more mestizos out there. However, such mixed heritage also leads to reduced facial hair. People who have Native American blood will have trouble growing long and full beards!
Here are some facts about Native Americans you’ll find interesting:
Also, some men can’t grow beard at all no matter they are native Americans or not.
Hopefully, this article removed your confusion for good. Next time, don’t panic if you see a native American man with a beard!
The Chumash indians of Southern California had very thick and wavy hair on their heads, and heavy beards on their chins and cheeks. So did other coastal tribes as well as Chumash Islanders. Santa Cruz island was called island of the bearded men.
Hey every one! The first pic of the European man is a real Native American Man, and the Native American Man with the long Black hair and the brown skin is a half breed or Mestizo! This is what they want you to believe, that the Euro invaders are the real indigenous people of the Americas, and they all look like the Euro in the first pic, and the real Natives are just Mexican Mestizos, and they are illegal immigrants who need to be deported back to Mexico, Central America, or South America. The No facial hair without European admixture is just white mythology they like to tell themselves, so that any painting or artifact that shows indigenous peoples with facial hair, they can attribute their art, material cultures, and civilizations to the Celts, The Vikings, The Phoenicians, Carthaginians, or Solutreans. Its just more propaganda to cut Native Americans out of their own history, and disinherit and disassociate them from their own ancestors, homelands, and birthright!!
The guy you showed up top is a $5 indian. Not a real native american. His ancestry is over 95% european. Stop the lies!!!
Agreed, I wish us white people would stop taking other cultures and just like our own culture
I’m part Lakota myself, and I’ve never been able to grow a thick beard or mustache.
Also, Native Americans are not Indians. They have nothing to do with India. Actual Indians, such as Mahatma Ganhdi, are capable of growing very thick beards and mustaches.
I’m large quantity native American… I asked because someone questioned me on it due to men in my family have beards and mustaches. So I wanted to feel a peace about it. Thanks. Yes this helps. I also was told that no red skin on us. No dark brown is what my father was. I didn’t see it as red.
My fiancé is 100% native and he has no facial hair what so ever