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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.

No offense, but it sounds like you've been reading pseudo-scientific
tripe.

Why not read the official report on him (unofficial studies, by folks
who had less of a chance to handle the bones, agreed in most
particulars) instead, it's found at
www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/powell_rose.htm

Be sure to read the whole thing (& look at the tables) rather than
just skimming.

(Here's a hint, Caucasians were the 2nd LEAST similar group to him,
behind only Africans).

> I have also heard theories, that before the land bridge in
> the Bering Straight, that North America was caucasion.

Yep, you've been listening to pseudo-scientific tripe.

> 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.

Who says?
 
> Kennewick man, died from an arrow into the pelvis. Forensic
> reports show a stone arrowhead lodged there.

Actually, most likely a spearpoint.
 
> 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.

Why?  Atlatls were used here before bows came into use (& retained
afterwards, in some places), and they are VICIOUS long distance
weapons.  Read the old Spanish accounts, the Conquistadores who took
over Mexico feared atlatls MORE than they did Indians with bows.

Besides, what would stop any hypothetical prior occupants from
adopting the bow themselves, after seeing it in action & perhaps
obtaining a few samples?

> 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.

The facts ARE in.  Ancestral land claims cases derive primarily from
treaty rights, which are NOT dependant on anything other than the fact
that the treaty was ratified by both parties.  But in any case, the
facts DO show that modern Native Americans ARE descended from the
PaleoIndian first settlers of the Americas.

Read the genetics studies.  Read the PaleoIndian genetics studies!
Read the Powell & Neves study ("Craniofacial Morphology of the First
Americans", in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology). READ
ANYTHING other than the nonsense you have been relying on....

Sincerely (amused),

Wade Wofford.