It would be fun one day if the people we call "Native Americans" are suddenly not so native and can no longer come to the conquest debate with clean hands.
And so the question is again asked: were the Indians present at the time of Columbus the same as the ones who left these footprints, or did Columbus' Indians kill off those people? It would be fun one day if the people we call "Native Americans" are suddenly not so native and can no longer come to the conquest debate with clean hands.
Another way to ask that question is: Was the pre-history of the Native Americans as scuzzy as the pre-history of the Euro-trash that came calling in the Americas?
And does it really matter?
Aside from noting that the Euro-hordes might have been a model for the recent SCOTUS decision on eminent domain...
Being a mixed bag of mostly Euro-trash with a dab of NA myself puts me in a situ of having a lot of dogs and just too damned many dogfights to think that it matters a whole heckuva' lot now and that it will matter even less a couple of generations into the future.
All that aside and as a function of pure Entertainment, I rather enjoy the idea that 'Native Americans' are turning out to be tens of thousands of years more 'native' than the Clovis First adherents would like for us to think. How could experts have been so wrong?