Who was here first?

[stevedeshazer]

Happy Independence Day.

[teddy51]

1. Maybe none of them! Happy 4th to U as well.

[Confusious]

2. Going back even further

There were multiple distinct migrations across the Bering sea, so you could say they weren't even the first.

[Scootaloo]

13. Could even be possible that the people who "came first"

Arrived from the south; some super-early sites in South America have a lot of similarities to Australian Aborigine sites.

[panader0]

3. one eighth Crow here!

The rest is split between Irish and English. There are internal cultural conflicts.

[DJ13]

4. Hmmm

[Confusious]

5. They have that guy on YouTube

His hair got kookier every time.

the next one he's going to have it frizzed out and be wearing X-ray specs.

[freshwest]

9. It's always THEM!

[hfojvt]

6. thanks

[freshwest]

7. Interdimensional beings!

A few native American tribes claim the existance of such creatures.* Jane Goodall said on NPR that there is no proof, but that being a 'romantic' she 'wants to believe.' Since I want to believe too, just because, I found this the best one. The wackier, the better, and the better to understand the Baggers amongst us. They indeed, may believe in several things before breakfast:

One fringe theory, supported by paranormal investigator Jon-Erik Beckjord, theorizes that the lack of hard evidence supporting Bigfoot's existence may be due to the creature being an interdimensional being that slips in and out of dimensions.

*Unfortunately, the picture is disputed, according to Wikipedia's Bigfoot or Sasquatch page, despite the native claims about these guys.

Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film, alleged by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin to show a bigfoot, and by some others to show a man in an ape suit.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot#Interdimensional_being

Happy Independence Day! I don't see any space ships hovering overhead, not yet, anyway.

[needledriver]

8. Homo Sapiens Sapiens is not native

to North, Central, or South America.

[nolabear]

10. See that teeny patch of Choctaw on the Gulf? That's me.

Or at least a part of me. The rest is immigrant. Irish, like a whole lot of the rest of the South.

Happy Fourth!

[progressoid]

11. Asians.

[pampango]

20. My wife, who's Asian, is keeps telling me that all Native Americans are descended from Asians.

At least until the Europeans got here and started "mixing" the DNA up.

[progressoid]

27. Yep - That's what recent DNA tests show.

http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101

But then the question is, where did the Asians come from?

[Amonester]

12. And this is when the troubles began:

(well, a little earlier than that, actually).

And then...

[jberryhill]

29. Yeah, cuz all Native Americans lived in peace and harmony

[Amonester]

33. That isn't what I was thinking about "the troubles began"

I knew it was far from a "Peace & Love" continent long before the strangers sailed and stayed...

Should have written "this is when the destruction of the eco-systems began:" or "the beginning of the end" or such.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Ah! There's my Menominee and Crow!

A lot of Billy Jack hats at the family reunions.

[Jamaal510]

15. This is exactly the diagram that needs to be pulled out

whenever some Teabagger starts mouthing off about "taking our country back."

[kentauros]

16. Spore!

He was a real fungi.

[KatChatter]

17. One thing for sure White Folks were not here first!

[HipChick]

18. I still do not understand the concept of celebrating stealing a country from a another country

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from people that it first, and already occupied it.

[stevedeshazer]

19. Me too.

[malthaussen]

21. My poor Penobscot brother...

his people aren't even listed on the map. (Probably considered to fall under the Abnaki)

[frogmarch]

22. I celebrate Independence Day, but

I cringe at the way the early colonists treated the native Americans.

My 7th great-grandfather Thomas Perley was on the committee that in 1701 bought the deed for the town of Boxford, MA, from three of the grandsons of Masconnomet, sagamore (chief) of the Agawam tribe of the Algonquian People, for two shillings and six pence....oh, and some "vittels and drink.” (See 2nd footnote)
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The name of another distant great-grandfather of mine, John Peabody, appears at the top of the page. (Both Thomas Perley and John Peabody were Salem witch trials jurors. )

[hobbit709]

23. Those were all late comers.

Compared to the people that made the Folsom points.

[NNN0LHI]

24. My great-great grandmother on my fathers side was a Potawatomi woman

Intermarriage between French-Canadian settlers and Native American women was very common in this area.

Don't have any photos but I have been told she was very beautiful.

Don

[cthulu2016]

25. What Native Americans and Europeans have in common is

that both are part of a group that exterminated every other hominid on the planet Earth. Flat out genocide on an unimaginable scale.

I don't hold it against them... against us. It is just what happened.

[Iggo]

26. Them big white fuckers from Prometheus.

[Drunken Irishman]

28. Adam & Eve

At least, that's what the Mormons believe, since they say the Garden of Eden was located in Missouri.

[Overseas]

30. K&R.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. My mother got off the train from Toronto in 1919 to steal jobs from Real Americans.

All the way from Leeds in England. She was 9 and started work as kitchen maid at that age.

[apocalypsehow]

32. That is one cool map - I'd actually like to have one of those.

Wonder if you can order one off of Amazon? I love maps like that.