Columbus was in U.S. FIRST !!!

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Originally Posted by Steel

Pretty sure the Anishinaabe and hundreds of other tribes were here first. Smh. Unless of course you disregard hundreds of native peoples creation/history accounts and insert scientific findings that change like the seasons.

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Well, yes and no on that one. Yes to the Anishinaabe and hundreds of other tribes being the first to the Americas. No to scientific findings that change like the seasons.

It has been pretty well established scientifically that the first is true and has been accepted for as long as I can remember. The scientific evidence just keeps getting better for this theory The 'First Americans': Humans arrived in THREE great migrations across land bridge from Siberia - and DNA differences can still be detected today | Mail Online .

The greatest thing the peoples of the Americas have in common is that we were all immigrants at one time or another and have on heck of a deep shared gene pool because of it.

Bob

I guess being old and bitter, it should come as no surprise when I ask, "who cares?"

Were the Earth to be discovered by a few random aliens who didn't have the ability to populate it, or convince others that they should come in droves and populate it - would we complain that history needed to be rewritten?

I mean don't get me wrong. I am in complete favor of accuracy. Matter a fact, it bothers me to no end that no one writes at length as to how many of those who were native to the region died because of the introduction of infectious diseases. By all accounts according the the BBC news story I was listening to yesterday, 90% of those living here (the America's - North, South, and Central) died. Seems high? But what do I know? We never talk about it here.

If that many did die, that would mean then that there were HUGE civilizations with enormous city's that existed before europeans arrived to the Americas - not just a bunch of rag-tag nomadic peoples.

Of course I am being silly because most historians know this already - it just never makes it to the history books. If it did - Franchises like the Red Skins, the Lone Ranger etc, etc, would really be an issue LOL!! :)

The Lone Ranger??? What's wrong with that? If you're knocking him, well if you were here you'd be deep sixed.

Actually in those days there were only two shows that attempted to give natives a reasonable role. The Lone Ranger was one, and Yancy Derringer was the second.

i was just being sarcastic with the columbus insert !! he was by far not the "finder" of the U.S. and of course there were tribes here long before !! i just find it funny how even to this day his title is kept high when it comes to our history books ...

snopes.com: Viking Ship Discovered Near Mississippi River

There ya go, good ole snopes, always check the source. At least it spawned a decent conversation.

Bob

Not exactly sure, but I think there were at least 5 language groups in California alone....groups that were as different as English and Chinese, that is, no linguistic connection.

Aliens came here fairly recently but couldn't get jobs that paid a living wage in the larger cities, so they moved on......... I heard they were also offended by Men In Black's portrayal of them ...... bug indeed ! :p

I just finished a book about the vikings,they had settlements on the west coast of greenland in the 1200s.
Just fire up the boston whalers and come to Amerika, seems simple to me

Actually if you look up, "Kennewick Man", this is archaeological evidence that there were Caucasian's on the North American continent 6000-9000 years before the first remains of Aboriginals were discoverd. They found these remains in Kennewick, Washington in 1996...been causing a shite storm of controversy with the Aboriginal communities...from what I understand, they've got the remains locked up in court, saying they are ancestral remains, when they're clearly not, because proof of this would disprove their claim as being First Nations...very interesting discovery around who was here and when, first, aside from the Alien's who built the Pyramids of course...it's true, because I saw it on the show, "Alien Technology"!:p

Kennewick Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia