[onedoug]

Who capitalizes “indigenous”?

Had American aborigines the political organization and ships, they would just as naturally have attempted the conquest of Europe.

This latest bit is just more primitivism.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Had American aborigines the political organization and ships, they would just as naturally have attempted the conquest of Europe***

They would have then brought home the European diseases and still died off.

[Varda]

I think this is exactly right. Open ocean voyaging Native Americans did land in other places and just like everybody else left their DNA as evidence. Are today's liberals going to call for the deaths of those explorers, I think not.

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