American Indians are not the first or original people here in the new world.
Apparently from the archeological digs found in MANY places in the U.S.,
European mammoth hunters were here BEFORE the Asian-Siberian hunters groups, a.k.a., American Indians.
Those digs in the northwest were buried and submerged with a river by the Army Corps of Engineers because American Indians complained that the site was a "sacred burial ground."
Truth will prevail when the U.S. stops worshipping at the altar of self-hate and Indian-worship.
Since American Indians were NOT the first, the American-Italian heritage celebration is MORE appropriate since Europeans WERE the first "Americans."
Based upon skull measurements, a few old human fossils were deemed to be of the "European type". Maybe they were explorers, or maybe they were Asiatic native Americans with some "European" features. But this is some scant evidence to base your "Europeans were the Original Americans" claim. What happened to them? How did they get here? How long did they live there?
None of this changes the fact that when Europeans arrived here there were Asiatic Native Americans living here that had to be removed from the land.
This doesn't make Europeans "evil" or Native Americans "good". It is just part of the historic displacement of nomadic or horticulturist societies by agricultural societies. To paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt 'it is ridiculous to assume that North America would remain the last great refuge of nomadic peoples.'
So give up on the revisionist history based upon the skull measurements of a few human remains.
I'm curious as to why those first mammoth hunters didn't stay here the first round. Or, did they, and they are the "Melungeons"?