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Killing the natives?

• deleted 9y ago
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• gerdesj 9y ago
  Who are the "natives"? Do you stop at "first to call the area by its modern name" or do you go back through say first hominids? Perhaps we should go back further, say "recognisable single cell organism"
  • walterstucco 9y ago
    The natives are those that were killed because they opposed to the plans other had for those lands were they lived for centuries They didn't kill first
  • maxerickson 9y ago
    Humans are likely the first hominids to occupy the Americas. There's some speculation of earlier migrations: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-evidence-human-activity-north-america-130000-years-ago-180963046/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-evidence-hu... In any case, humans had been living here for several thousand years before Columbus arrived 500 years ago. Is it so difficult to see a distinction between millions of people with hundreds of years of history and thousands of people arriving on ships? (Estimates of the total population vary quite a lot; millions is quite a safe claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigeno... )
  • erikpukinskis 9y ago
    Was there some point to this question?