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Sansarya Caligari
BLEH!
Join date: 25 Apr 2005
Posts: 1,206
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11-23-2005 10:43
From: Lora Morgan Makes me think of the Far Side comic where native Americans are standing on the shores watching the European ships come in, saying jubilantly, "We've been discovered!" Yeah, sometimes we regret that those Eastern bands of tribes didn't have better immigration laws  Actually, in our oral histories and wintercounts we have documented Lakota people traveling globally in the four directions, including travel across oceans. I can't speak for other tribal nations, but for the Lakota Sioux there was knowledge about Europeans and Asians and Africans prior to them coming here. So...in that sense, we discovered you all  |
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Einsman Schlegel
Disenchanted Fool
Join date: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 1,461
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11-23-2005 11:31
From: Mickey Valentino I think you all missed the point.. look at a map or globe from any time period.. Americay has yet to be discovered. Yeah I don't see it on my map either. |
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Susie Boffin
Certified Nutcase
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 2,151
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11-23-2005 20:21
From: Joy Honey Americay? Did the Canadians take over? (no offense intended  ) You know now that I think of it it may have been those sneaky Canadians who "discovered Americay." By the way I may want to say what inspired this thread. It was not the History Channel but an Irish song on Celtic Radio that was about the potato famine of the 1880's and how 1/3 of Ireland went to Americay. Guess where potatoes came from? Gives you something to think about don't it? If you can make the connection to who discovered Americay you are smarter than me because I forgot it. 
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Joy Honey
Not just another dumass
Join date: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 3,751
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11-23-2005 20:53
From: Susie Boffin You know now that I think of it it may have been those sneaky Canadians who "discovered Americay." By the way I may want to say what inspired this thread. It was not the History Channel but an Irish song on Celtic Radio that was about the potato famine of the 1880's and how 1/3 of Ireland went to Americay. Guess where potatoes came from? Gives you something to think about don't it? If you can make the connection to who discovered Americay you are smarter than me because I forgot it. Awwww Susie, did your train of thought leave you at the station too?
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Michael Seraph
Second Life Resident
Join date: 9 Nov 2004
Posts: 849
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11-24-2005 01:25
There is an excellent book out called "1491" and it covers the civilizations of the Americas before Columbus. According to it, within a century of Columbus' landing, up to 90% of the inhabitants of the Americas died of Old World diseases, leaving much of the New World empty and devastating the societies that did survive. The one disease that went the other way was probably syphilis. Makes bird flu look like the common cold, huh?
Oh, and Columbus was the first to "patent" his discovery. If he hadn't yours truly, an ethnic German, wouldn't be writing in English in Alaska.
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