Larry_Oldtimer
01-19-2005, 12:16 PM
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=bc_home&articleID=1806114
Excerpts: PENTICTON (BC Newspaper Group) — The year 2004 ends with a major story in archaeology, revealed by the use of new DNA technology on ancient bison bones scattered around western North America.
The findings profoundly affect our understanding of how North America was populated by humans, and could have an impact on aboriginal politics as well.
The conventional wisdom, taught to generations in school, speaks of a land bridge connecting Asia with Alaska. This now-submerged bridge was created by lower sea levels in the last ice age, which ended about 8,500 years ago. It was postulated that prehistoric tribes followed herds of migrating big animals down through an ice-free corridor roughly along the Rocky Mountains, eventually reaching all points of the continent and establishing what are now revered as the First Nations.
It is now becoming clear that this conventional wisdom is wrong, or at least woefully incomplete . . .
All of the available evidence suggests that the peopling of the western interior of Canada in the post-glacial period occurred from the south."
The Oxford DNA result strongly suggests that Driver was right . . .
So what does all this mean for aboriginal politics in Canada?
Well, today's cultural preservation dogma demands a rigid system of communal land ownership. This communal system, which is a proven, ongoing disaster, is strictly race-based. The idea of multiple migrations of overlapping races, in an ebb and flow over millennia, doesn't sit well with the First Nations power structure that reaps the benefit of the status quo.
Canada's race-based politics are simply wrongheaded. They perpetuate division by awarding more and more special rights to certain people. And these policies are based on a racial occupation theory that is slowly unravelling, as science makes its slow and steady march toward the truth. (more)
Excerpts: PENTICTON (BC Newspaper Group) — The year 2004 ends with a major story in archaeology, revealed by the use of new DNA technology on ancient bison bones scattered around western North America.
The findings profoundly affect our understanding of how North America was populated by humans, and could have an impact on aboriginal politics as well.
The conventional wisdom, taught to generations in school, speaks of a land bridge connecting Asia with Alaska. This now-submerged bridge was created by lower sea levels in the last ice age, which ended about 8,500 years ago. It was postulated that prehistoric tribes followed herds of migrating big animals down through an ice-free corridor roughly along the Rocky Mountains, eventually reaching all points of the continent and establishing what are now revered as the First Nations.
It is now becoming clear that this conventional wisdom is wrong, or at least woefully incomplete . . .
All of the available evidence suggests that the peopling of the western interior of Canada in the post-glacial period occurred from the south."
The Oxford DNA result strongly suggests that Driver was right . . .
So what does all this mean for aboriginal politics in Canada?
Well, today's cultural preservation dogma demands a rigid system of communal land ownership. This communal system, which is a proven, ongoing disaster, is strictly race-based. The idea of multiple migrations of overlapping races, in an ebb and flow over millennia, doesn't sit well with the First Nations power structure that reaps the benefit of the status quo.
Canada's race-based politics are simply wrongheaded. They perpetuate division by awarding more and more special rights to certain people. And these policies are based on a racial occupation theory that is slowly unravelling, as science makes its slow and steady march toward the truth. (more)