Do you have an author for “American Dawn, etc”?
I tried to find it on Amazon under that title & couldn’t.
Sorry. - I haven’t even seen a copy since grad school & that was “when dinosaurs roamed the Earth”.
(An old prof loaned me his copy & I struggled through it in 1976.)
Btw, I may well have been wrong about the last migration from East Asia. = An old friend from when I was still working was a member of a rich/old family from Northern Pakistan & whose family was once a major trader on The Silk Road for eons.
One afternoon in 1990 or 91, she called me to ask if I could get her a “behind the scenes tour” of the Smithsonian’s American Indian Museum. - I called the museum, asked if that was possible & was told that a staff-member would show her anything that any member of the public could be shown on that Thursday.
On Thursday morning we arrived at opening time & were shown into the museum & thereafter were asked if we wanted to join a “special tour” for AI college students from AK. = We said, “YES”.
About an hour later, I noted that Muslima was having a conversation with one of the students in a language that I’d not heard before & asked my friend about the conversation, as I was surprised that she spoke Inuit. - She said, “No. I was talking to her in my own language.” She further said that the coed’s grammar, word usage is ‘old-school’, stilted & her pronunciation is a just a bit odd but she was completely understandable.”
On the way back to VA, I asked my friend further questions & she said that the young lady had told her that her people had come to AK “in the time of the grandfathers”.
From that conversation alone, I wonder if the Inuit may have been in AK such a short time that the language spoken in at least one part of rural Pakistan may not have changed since some “native speakers” went to the Americas & that at least some of the Inuit people may have come to AK fairly recently.
(NO, I don’t know any more than that & I’m just guessing.)
Note: Our people, when describing a time that is long ago, often say: “Many Winters have passed” since then. - I wonder if “in the time of the grandfathers” is a similar idiom.
Yours, TMN78247