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JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)There will be no better campaign video in this 2016 campaign than that!!
That is what America is about.
All of our ancestors came here because they were in need of a safe place to go to and live in. And when we remember where we came from and why, then we can be proud of our country. And that goes for those of who are fully or partly Native American. Native American DNA is said to have come from other sources, albeit 23,000 or 15,000 years ago. So although Native Americans were here long, long, long, long before Europeans, too long to consider them really to be "immigrants," all of our ancestors came from somewhere else at some point in history (assuming the scientists in the article below are correct).
The Science paper attempted to pin down some of those details. The team calculated that Native American populations diverged from Asian groups 23,000 years ago, said co-author Yun Song, a computational biologist at UC Berkeley -- making that the earliest time they could have migrated south.
They also estimated that North American and South American populations split between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago, and that there was "evidence of subsequent migrations after the additional wave" -- including the DNA shared with native peoples in Australia and Micronesia.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-native-american-origins-dna-20150721-story.html
We all must share our planet with good will and respect for each other and live together in peace in this country. That is my point. I do not mean to denigrate Native Americans with this post but rather to point out that migration has been the history of the human race since our very beginning.
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(1,648 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)We have so much to do, and this message is real, too.
There's not a thing we cannot do under the right leadership.... Keep paying attention, America.