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To: kearnyirish2
There was a long period where women were smuggled in ~ as you well know. At the same time the mid 1700s saw the first attempts to settle California and Spain provisioned the missions FROM the Far East ~ and there can be no doubt East Asians showed up on those boats ~ and some "Manila Men' came to settle in towns along the Gulf of California earlier, but no one knows how early ~ certainly no earlier than several years AFTER 1531 I am fairly sure.

But almost all the Chinese in the West were men, without families, for a very long time after the American takeover.

If you read through the various histories of Fort Ross carefully you discover that the Russians actually brought a large number of Aleuts ~ who mostly later on went to Russia when the colony was disbanded (rather than back to the Aleutians), but many Aleut women stayed there finding opportunities with Spaniards (and American fur traders in the region) far more promising.

I don't know how you count Aleuts ~ as North American aborigines, or as East Asians, but the second generation of Aleuts in California were certainly among the first mixed-race folks since the 9000BC period!

East Asian immigration patterns were wholly unlike Western European immigration patterns of the mid to late 1800s ~ on the other hand they were very much like Western European immigration patterns of the 1500s (with few women) and later on in the mid 1700s (with few women)

As you undoubtedly know there were native women here fully equipped to bear children and create family life. One famous fellow in New York was the first European settler in what became Rochester NY. He had several wives. One was an Indian. Another was black. One was a blond white woman, and another was a fiery red headed white woman.

The red head lived alone with her 5 chillun'. The others lived together with their pack in a larger house.

Their family name is ALLEN ~ and he was from New Jersey. Gather he grew up packing into the back country to collect furs to bring back to the coast.

That was for a very long time a typical American family. No idea why we gave it up

29 posted on 01/03/2013 5:44:09 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I believe the “Kennewick Man” (not sure of the spelling) in Washington State was an Aleutian; the dig was going to be used as fodder for more freebies for American Indians, but when it turned out the oldest skeleton was in fact not a native at all the government closed up the site.


30 posted on 01/03/2013 5:59:03 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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