# Do Native Americans have an epicanthic fold?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-native-americans-have-an-epicanthic-fold/391020
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 6, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-native-americans-have-an-epicanthic-fold/391020 "2007-02-06T01:11:49Z")
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-native-americans-have-an-epicanthic-fold/391020/1 "2007-02-06T01:11:49Z")
If Native Americans came over from Asia to North America via the frozen Bering Strait, shouldn’t their eyes have an epicanthic fold?
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Joe)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-native-americans-have-an-epicanthic-fold/391020/2 "2007-02-06T01:39:29Z")
They do.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Joe)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-native-americans-have-an-epicanthic-fold/391020/3 "2007-02-06T01:43:05Z")
However I found this that says they do not.
[http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/race/racial\_odyssey.html](http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/race/racial_odyssey.html)
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Joe)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-native-americans-have-an-epicanthic-fold/391020/4 "2007-02-06T01:47:23Z")
And this one says that some do.
[http://www.reference-wordsmith.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=Mongol](http://www.reference-wordsmith.com/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=Mongol)
See I was right! 😛