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“Salinas answered: “Unless you’re Native American, we are all from immigrant families.”

So, my first family member coming here in 1492 makes me an immigrant.

The ‘Native Americans’ couldn’t even invent the wheel, much less navigate the oceans.

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"The ‘Native Americans’ couldn’t even invent the wheel, much less navigate the oceans."

And they would still be pooping in the dirt!

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Some pre-Columbian "Americans" had wheels -- but, they were used for toys, not full-scale transportation devices. It came as a big surprise to me, decades ago, when I saw a toy something like this at a museum in Mexico. The most credible explanation (to me) for why they didn't also have carts, etc. is that wheeled transportation requires roads and other infrastructure. Apparently, it was deemed easier to just pack or drag things through the jungle; rather than build a network of roads.