How are the facial features of the plains Indians and Caucasians different?
It’s impossible to say because these indians can vary a lot, and because Caucasian is not a race, but refers to an obsolete category which has nothing to do with genetics and includes Europeans North Africans and West Asians, while “Indian” is a cultural concept. Compare some native americans from different tribes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assmil… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Native… Native americans aren’t an homogeneous group, although they may share a common origin according to mtDNA/Y-chromosome. They can vary a lot in skin shade, height, body frame, facial features, eye color, etc. It’s not clear if they belonged to the same group. Some anthropologists are speculating that there were several groups living in Asia that populated the continent at different times. One of the first group