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So what's your theory ? Are you suggesting that Native Americans are their own race or species, developed in the Americas, independently of Africans/Asians/Europeans ?
No I am not stating that.. I'm saying I don't know...there is too much conflicting data and theories. It's all conjectural.
there's a link to natives being of Polynesian descent.
Also, you have to take into account the margin of error that is inherent with anthropology...You cannot directly observe these things. Don't get my sentiment twisted either... I am no Creationist.
The question is what timeframe shall we use to prove ownership?
Go back 100,000 years and everybody reading this will likely have their lineage converge.
Now if you would all kindly get off my planet it would be appreciated.
That's kinda what I'm saying --
if you look at the dictionary definition of "Indigenous", it says:
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
if you look at the politically-correct-UN-bureaucrat definition of "Indigenous", it says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples Indigenous populations are composed of the existing descendants of the peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country wholly or partially at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin arrived there from other parts of the world, overcame them, by conquest, settlement or other means, reduced them to a non-dominant or colonial condition; who today live more in conformity with their particular social, economic and cultural customs and traditions than with the institutions of the country of which they now form part, under a state structure which incorporates mainly national, social and cultural characteristics of other segments of the population which are predominant.
Which, to me, looks like the sort of convoluted, politically-motivated bullsh*t I expect from the UN, to go around redefining words as they see fit.
The question is what timeframe shall we use to prove ownership?
Go back 100,000 years and everybody reading this will likely have their lineage converge.
Now if you would all kindly get off my planet it would be appreciated.
I would guess that every square foot of land on this earth belonged to somebody else at some time in the past and almost all of it has changed hands by war, theft or fraud. The fact that 2000 years ago somebody's ancestors owned some land is irrelevant.
Fortunately or unfortunately we are where we are and there should be no effort to restore land to anybody due to events that happened more than 20 or 30 years ago.
there's a link to natives being of Polynesian descent.
Ok, for the sake of argument let's say you're right, that "Native Americans" are of polynesian descent.
Polynesians aren't indigenous to the Americas, either, so my point stands that there are no indigenous Americans.
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