They’re also saying that the folks we know as Native Americans, may not be as Native as some would have us think.
Most likely, Native Americans came in several “waves” and at different times. There is also the orign of the Patagonians that doesn’t fit the Siberia model. There seems a lot more to learn.
“Native Americans”
Native what?
Oh, you mean Indians.
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Good Point. The entirety of the North American Indian legal status rests on their claim to have been created here. That claim gives them on-reservation Federal tax exemption, the right to own and build nontaxable casinos, fireworks and tobacco sales, as well as unregulated natural resource access - whatever the tribe wants, they get.
That claim also gives them Constitutional Rights, while relegating all others rights to the status of privileges which, according to SCOTUS, can be revoked at any given time.
Break that claim and the whole Treaty tribe empire falls.