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Article #771Re: North America 9,500 years ago, was caucasion: Indian land claims
From: me
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 04:58
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 04:58
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In article <2%PG9.1217$rv5.378032@news20.bellglobal.com>, stewacide@hotmail.com says... > > >"Yousef" <me@our.com> wrote in message >news:L9NG9.34913$fk5.2794168@news0.telusplanet.net... >> I have read numerous reports that 9,55 year old Kennewick Man, found >> in Washington state recently, - during a boat race - was caucasion. >> >> I have also heard theories, that before the land bridge in >> the Bering Straight, that North America was caucasion. >> >> That makes sense that if there were humans on North America, >> prior to the land bridge, then they would not be of asian >> decent. As the asian immigration took place somewhere between >> 25,000 and 10,000 years ago. >> >> Kennewick man, died from an arrow into the pelvis. Forensic >> reports show a stone arrowhead lodged there. >> >> If the people of North America did not have bows and arrows, it >> would not have taken long, for tribes, to spread out, >> and essentially wipe out the occupants that being the caucasians >> who lived here at the time. >> >> So, about those North American land claims, and that apartheid >> document that Canadians have enshrined in the constitution. >> (The Indian Act) >> >> I find it null and void, and move that all anscestral land claims >> be shelved, until all the facts are in, in the case. > >So what if there were - I would be kinda' surprised if there weren't people >with what we think of as 'Caucasian' features (Caucasians having originated >in central east Asia, and only later migrating to Europe, the Mid East, and >North Africa). Remember also that the 'divergence' between what we today >think of as Caucasians and Asians (and every other non-African grouping - >including Australian aborigines) is quite recent (since they all decent >largely from a single relatively-recent migration out of Africa - or so the >latest theories suppose). > >Besides, native treaties in Canada are contracts (the natives gave up most >of their land for guarantees on a small part of it). Racist they may be >there's nothing we can do about them short of re-negotiating them. It's >irrelevant whether the band that signed the treaty were the original >inhabitants of the area (since none of them were - same maybe the Inuit). As >for negotiating new treaties where none exist, I think that's just silly >(when one native group pushed another out of a region did they give the >'losing' group special treaty rights because they felt sorry for them? :) > No they didn't. In fact they raided aech other and killed each other just like any other group. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/03/oldest.skull/index.html
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