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Originally posted by John D Harris:
I agree with Diogenes of Pumkintown,
We can go back to the Mongols, Huns, or the Arians (sp?) that invaded and conquered europe. How about the Nubians that invaded Eygpt? or the Eyptians that invaded Nubia? What about the Cro-magnon (sp?) that conquered the Neanderthal? I'm not defending either side I'm just pointing out that almost everybody has been conquered in history. Are we going to keep on piss'n and moun'n about it? Isn't that what is going on in the Baulkins?
As for the American Indians being one with nature, give me a break. the ancestors of most of the southwestern tribes (the Anisai if I remeber correctly)
Distroyed their civilzation by over farming and over population. What about the Mississippians, the mound builders, their civilaztion was distroyed by in-fighting and over population. The newest evidence is that the first inhabitants of the western hemisphere where from Australia (sp?). When the asians crossed the land bridge they conquered their land from them earlier inhabitants. The above are simplificantions but are the gist of what happened. The point is that the American Indians are just like everybody else they put their pants on the same way, ONE LEG AT A TIME.
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What other nation since the Neanderthal has been completely eradicated from the face of the earth? Yes, there are a few Indian nations left but how many cultures were completely wiped out by the Anglo-Saxon colonization of the United States?! You can't count them friend. In spite of the fact that they were "all" Indians, they ALL had cultures of their own and physical differences that made their tribes unique one from the other.
BTW, FYI, The earliest North American Indian remains ever found...those which were determined to be most likely the first inhabitants in this country were related closest to ancient Japenese cultures in the shape of the skulls/eyes, and by the artifacts, etc.
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