To: Palter
TOGA, TOGA, TOGA
Seriously, and with no offense to the LDS Freepers, I put my trust in the historians and ethnographers who agree that Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family and are thought to have migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.
To: NavyCanDo
Actaully, everyone came from the Caucasus Mountains at one time. Isn't that where Mt. Ararat is located (where Noah's Ark landed)?
So does that make us all caucasians?
15 posted on
07/07/2010 7:15:15 AM PDT by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: NavyCanDo
Seriously, and with no offense to the LDS Freepers, I put my trust in the historians and ethnographers who agree that Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family and are thought to have migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.
Language is not a reliable marker of ethnic origin, since a new language is easily learned, and an old language forgotten within two or three generations. Think of all the American immigrant families and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who couldn't speak more than a word or two of the “old” language if a gun was held to their heads, having learned only English.
16 posted on
07/07/2010 7:15:25 AM PDT by
Cheburashka
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