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All the American Indian can say over us White people is they got here first.
They colonized the Americas from Asia over the Bering Land Bridge back before SUV's raised the sea level and made it the Aleutian Islands.
Humans are not indigenous to the Americas. We did not evolve here.
Another thought about European colonization of The New World:
If it had not been for at least three back-to-back plagues (only one is European in origin) the Indians we're so concerned about today would not have existed. They're the remnants of the survivors of those plagues.
Even more: Had it not been for Spaniards losing some horses, the plains Indian would never have risen to be what they were when French trappers and Voyageurs wandered into the area.
I doubt the horseless Indians of the vacant plains would have done any better than their Eastern relatives did against Western expansion.
I wonder, though, if the Aztecs would have collapsed on their own, or expanded North.
Prolly collapsed, they don't appear to have really recovered from the pre-European plagues.
Cahokia, for example, didn't survive to see the European diseases. Their society collapsing is why the plains were vacant for the tribes which became the horse-based culture of the Plains Indian to occupy.
The Cahokia and similar societies are also, probably, why bison were so damn plentiful. Like most agrarian cultures took a bat to the predator populations, leaving a relatively safe place for bison to breed.
Very good evidence that the collapse of several of the great civilizations of North, Central and South America, including the Moundbuilders, is due to the little ice age in the 1300s that totally hosed the rainfall.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, it was the collapse of the great Amazon Basin civilizations, that had basically clearcut and farmed just about anywhere that was reasonably flat, that allowed the great Amazon Forest to expand to its modern size and beyond.
And, of course, Native Americans weren't the first Humans here in North America. The earliest grave in America is of a female Caucasian, not a pseudo-east-Asian. So, well, White, Red, White...
You want to see a real legal battle?
DeleteTry getting DNA samples, let alone test them, from any number of "native American" grave sites.
They fight so hard to keep them from being analyzed that one begins to think they know something about the contents of the graves that contradicts the narrative they prefer.
I can understand them being fussy about graves that they know for sure are from their own tribes. But when you're talking several thousand years old, though, I have my doubts about their claims. But all they have to do is start howling and the guilt-addicts start flagellating themselves. Personally, when I'm gone, I do not care what becomes of my remains. My brother can toss them in the landfill for all I care.
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DeleteSomething I recently heard is that the "spreading diseases" thing worked both ways. The natives here encountered diseases they never had before and when the Europeans got back to Europe they brought diseases from the New World none of the Europeans had immunity to. That's actually good for both populations, although if you're dying of smallpox or whatever, that's little consolation.
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