[blam]

"What would that do to the notion of "Native Americans"?"

There were no 'Native Americans' (as we know them today) in North America prior to 6,000 years ago. There were a number of other folks like Kennewick Man, Spirit Cave Man and Buhl Woman here 9,000+ years ago that were Ainu/Joman in origin. The Northern Chinese Asians ('Native Americans'?) came here less than 6,000 years ago. I had a 'Native American' FReeper tell me once that who-ever was here, then that's us. I can 'buy' that.

[LostTribe]

When the "we were here first" crowd get too noisy and sanctimonius I recall this quote from an earlier thread---

"The Maoris have been conditioned by liberal whities to deem everything they want, or want control of, as "sacred" to them. There were a people who settled New Zealand before them called the Morioris. The Maoris killed and ate them. ... Revisionist history omits this fact.

[chemainus]

Where in the living hell do you get this kind of erroneous information?