I assume that the indigenous peoples, as with ours, would insist that
they have always been there and did not 'arrive'. For Australian
Aboriginals, this is a matter of religion as their creation stories
involve their being created with the land (an important concept for
nomadic indigenes with an animist religion).
To suggest otherwise, such as arrival 60K years ago during an ice age
when seas were low, will get you a VERY strenuous argument in some
tribal areas and a strong suggestion that you bugger off back to
whitefella country immediately.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 19/04/2010, at 11:05 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Now that's a surprise. How else would they have gotten there? The
> bus? But
> seriously I've never heard of the land bridge theory being challenged.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:23 PM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Suggesting that the "First Nations" in Canada came across the Bering
>> Straits is likely to get one lynched politically despite being
>> plausibly
>> true. The "whites", namely those of European heritage, arrived by
>> boat from
>> across the Atlantic which is a fact not in dispute.
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