Posted on 11/10/2015 3:56:15 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I agree with her. And actually, so does my liberal father. I’m definitely not Swiss or Armenian, although that is my heritage. The Brits I know don’t want me and I’ve known nothing else but the good, old US of A.
The first ancestor of mine who entered the New World did so in 1934 as part of the Great Migration of Puritans.
And 6 gen back to grandfather that fought Revolutionary War join up 1777 in Massachusetts
from your map, clearly the first Americans were Russians
I have two different 13th great-gradfathers that arrived in the New World before the Pilgrims, but I have no “Native American” ancestry. Why should it matter if one does. A descendant of the original inhabitants of North America have no greater claim than anyone else. People all over the world have been displaced or replaced by one group or another since time began. Hell, it is happening here in the good old USA as we speak with hordes of illegals from Central America and a moslem invasion from NAMESTAN (North Africa, the Middle East, and the ‘stans..Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc).
I always say my family came from the Republic of Texas!
Well, you might come from a long line,
But I come from The Rock Island Line!
“Oh, the Rock Island line is a mighty fine line
The Rock Island Line is the road to ride
The Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line
And if you ride it got to ride it like you find it get your ticket at the station for The Rock Island Line! Woo! Woo!”
Now you see why they ran us out of Europe.
I’m a hungarian native american whose ancestors made an inadvertent, tricky u-turn getting off a train in Bedapest looking for International House of Perogies & ended up on Coney Island roller coaster
I also told my kids tgat their family did not immigrate to the US. Our ancestors helped to create it. They fought in the revolutionary war.
Funny they let you in at all!
Ann is talking about the period before there was a nation here to have an immigration law. No law, no immigrants.
Does that make Whoopie a native American?
Pray America wakes
The correct term for pre-colonial people is ABORIGINAL.
Both sides of my family, the Foxwell and the Parks families were early settlers in the Richmond colony in the mid 1660s. I am a settler, not an immigrant. I am of settler stock as much as any people who came to this land to settle it and build a culture.
Ann is absolutely and completely correct.
One of my ancestors Stephen Hopkins was a Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor and a Mayflower Pilgrim.
Another ancestor James Cole, a Mayflower Descendent, founded the first and still standing Tavern in Boston, Cole’s Tavern. He was arrested a few times for selling ale on Sundays and to the first locals, Indians.
A cousin of James, Israel Cole helped to write and signed the “Letters of Discontent” to King George. That poed Crazy George, who sent Brit Marines to eliminate any future letters. Later, the signers of the Letters of Discontent were considered to be the first revolunataries by both sides.
Israel left upstate NY with 5 daughters and his wife to stay alive. They escaped from upstate NY to a rural area of Virginia to live near another Cole family, Sampson Cole. They were cousins and the 5 daughters married the 5 sons of Sampson Cole. That screwed up genealogists for centuries until we figured out what happened.
You had better watch what you have to say on this site. That is not the definition of a native American.
I’ve got a lot of Virginia ancestry, primarily Jamestown, but do have one from the vicinity of Richmond. Surname variously spelled Faure/Foree/Fore/Ford under the loose spelling of the era, it morphed over time and in different branches. French Huguenot, settlement was Manakin Towne, west of present-day Richmond, on the James River.
None of my ancestors arrived after the Revolutionary War, the one Johnny-come lately was German-speaking from Alsace, 1738. Earliest European was 1610, Jamestown. Then, there’s the smattering of Indian wives from the frontier era in the NC backcountry.
As a direct descendant of “Clovis People” I say Feh!!! to all the immigrant Athabascan newcomers, much less the even more recent european wetbacks.
;-)
Yeah, like that.
A lot of back country Indians and even whites had African blood as well.
I’ve been doing that for years..when asked, I tell people that I’m a Sosumi....
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