Way Too Many Americans

[A Theist]

If only the first Americans had thought that way, perhaps we could have avoided the unpleasantness of your ancestors immigrating here, too.

Which first Americans would those be? There's been a lot of debate and discussion about who was actually here first...The traditional belief that so-called Native Americans are descended from people of North East Asia who migrated here across the Bering land bridge during the ice age has been challenged by more recent findings...

A study of skulls excavated from the tip of Baja California in Mexico suggests that the first Americans may not have been the ancestors of today's Amerindians, but another people who came from Southeast Asia and the southern Pacific area.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...skull.html

Controversy erupted after skeletal remains were found in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. This skeleton, estimated to be 9,000 years old, had a long cranium and narrow face—features typical of people from Europe, the Near East or India—rather than the wide cheekbones and rounder skull of an American Indian.

A coalition of Indian tribes, however, said that if Kennewick Man was 9,000 years old, he must be their ancestor, no matter what he looked like. Invoking a U.S. federal law that provides for the return of Native American remains to their living descendants, the tribes demanded a halt to all scientific study and the immediate return of the skeleton for burial in a secret location.

Looks like today's American Indians are trying to hide some scientific evidence that would disprove their claim that Kennewick Man was their ancestor....
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...ull_2.html