Native North Americans are the ancestors of nomadic Asians who, while following megafauna of the Pleistocene, quite accidentally found themselves literally at the right place and the right time to cross the Beringian Land Bridge into North America.  Even more specifically, archaeologists have named the specific Asiatics as the "Thule Tradition," who crossed into North America … Read more

In general, the European explorers thought the Native Americans were "savages."  (A truly nasty word that consistently rears it's ugly head whenever you are discussing the meeting of European culture with indigenous peoples.) In the eyes of the European explorers, the Indians were a dirty, naked, uncivilized people.  Their concept of "God" was totally different, their concept … Read more