Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 3, 2015, at 5:43 AM, Chris Crawford wrote: > No, most of us are not Immigrants. By that logic, no one is native to > anywhere. There has been so much migration of human populations throughout > history that virtually every ethnic group on Earth today lives somewhere > they didn?t just 2000 years ago. Even the people who were here in the > Americas when Europeans first arrived were not native to the Americas. > They came from Siberia. The tribal people who still live in eastern > Siberia, like the Evenk and the Chukchi, are racially similar to Native > Americans, because they?re from the same ancestry. My father's father immigrated. My mother's paternal lineage harkened back to colonial days. Only those who immigrate can legitimately be referred to as immigrants. A wonderful series to watch on PBS: <http://www.pbs.org/first-peoples/home/> Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist