I am uncertain about the Indo-Europeans and don't really know if they were a people, ethnic group, race or language.
The native Siberians are and were the same ethnic stock as the American Indians. Their 19th century history was another dreadful tragedy of abuse, persecution and land theft. Photographs show them as being identical in physical features to Native Americans. If they took Votan with them from Siberia - that is surely less unlikely than the independent, unconnected invention of two such similar names and characteristics.
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