Exactly! Finds like this show threaten the victim status of American Indians and all this liberal nonsense about how the European white man is bad because he stole all their land. Whether this is true or not is not even the question because the leftists of the victimization industry don;t even want to debate their new god's existence - science. Totally hypocritical!
This posting agrees. EUROPEANS IN CANADA
Old notions could be turned on their heads as the debate over ancient migration rages on, both in academic and political circles. The main bone of contention worldwide has to do with the claims of aboriginal peoples, who regard themselves as the first and only indigenous people of their homelands. Any evidence that upsets the current orthodoxy they regard as a threat.
"[Early contact] is very contentious, but it's not nearly as speculative as some believe," says Prof. Kelley. "There are massive amounts of evidence. Some of it has been deliberately obscured, sometimes for political reasons." Despite this, the digging and the theorizing goes on.
Does the possibility that the Eriksson expedition may not have been the first to visit North America bother the people who organized the Viking Trail celebrations? Mr. Clarke remains unperturbed. "We've already had our party," he says. "Now they can go ahead and find whatever they want