John, Wolfgang just answered the question for me..
Wells was surprised when he was explaining his theory of migration based on genetic variation, to an Australian aboriginal artist who just said bullshit I dont believe it, all our traditions say we came from here period. And whose to say the rest of the world wasnt settled from Australia?
he had similar opposition from North American first nations.
Although to his credit rather than debating the science versus mythology
he took the view that the 'science' is essentially his or the NorthAmerican/European mythology.

Some north American first nations people also took opposition to his theory but did find it appealing on another level, when shown photos of Chukchi (siberian reindeer herders) they saw a lot of similarity in their faces..
And on another level, they did find the idea that we are all distant cousins rather than completely separate races quite appealing.

There is another recent theory (still quite controversial) that some early north american peoples may have arrived from Europe. Ie. the clovis technology looks very similar to the Solutrean technology (from France 20,000 years ago) and that there is nothing like the clovis spearpoint technology in Siberia. And although there should be no evidence of pre-clovis sites in North America, some sites do turn up.
There is a genetic marker in some east coast first nations that is clearly a European marker but is some 15,000 years old..

of course while youd think there would be strong opposition to such a theory, a first nations spokesman took the view that it shows the strength and tenacity of those early people that they were able to survive in such environments, and again that we are all much closer related than previously believed.