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   From: lds@example.ut   
      
   On 10/14/2024 12:41 PM, Bruce wrote:   
   > And that explains why you should celebrate that white people stole it   
   > x hundred years ago?   
      
   No, this is Dine' Day now:   
      
   https://navajopeople.org/blog/ancient-navajo-and-native-americas-migrations/   
      
   "That a land bridge between Asia and North America existed during the   
   last ice age is strongly supported by geological evidence. Ocean water   
   locked up in glacial ice lowered sea levels to the point where a   
   corridor up to 1600km or more wide existed between Siberia and Alaska.   
      
   “Long before Euro-Americans entered the Great Basin, substantial numbers   
   of people lived within the present boundaries of Utah. Archaeological   
   reconstructions suggest human habitation stretching back some 12,000   
   years. The earliest known inhabitants were members of what has been   
   termed the Desert Archaic Culture–nomadic hunter-gatherers with   
   developed basketry, flaked-stem stone tools, and implements of wood and   
   bone. They inhabited the region between 10,000 B.C. and A.D. 400.   
      
   These peoples moved in extended family units, hunting small game and   
   gathering the periodically abundant seeds and roots in a slightly more   
   cool and moist Great Basin environment.   
      
   About A.D. 400, the Fremont Culture began to emerge in northern and   
   eastern Utah out of this Desert tradition. The Fremont peoples retained   
   many Desert hunting-gathering characteristics yet also incorporated a   
   maize-bean-squash horticultural component by A.D. 800-900. They lived in   
   masonry structures and made sophisticated basketry, pottery, and clay   
   figurines for ceremonial purposes. Intrusive Numic peoples displaced or   
   absorbed the Fremont sometime after A.D. 1000.   
      
   Beginning in A.D. 400, the Anasazi, with their Basketmaker Pueblo   
   Culture traditions, moved into southeastern Utah from south of the   
   Colorado River. Like the Fremont to the north the Anasazi (a Navajo word   
   meaning “the ancient ones”) were relatively sedentary peoples who had   
   developed a maize-bean-squash-based agriculture.   
      
   The Anasazi built rectangular masonry dwellings and large apartment   
   complexes that were tucked into cliff faces or situated on valley floors   
   like the structures at Grand Gulch and Hovenweep National Monument. They   
   constructed pithouse granaries, made coiled and twined basketry, clay   
   figurines, and a fine gray-black pottery. The Anasazi prospered until   
   A.D. 1200-1400 when climactic changes, crop failures, and the intrusion   
   of Numic hunter-gatherers forced a southward migration and reintegration   
   with the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico.”   
      
   Archaeologists believe the indigenous peoples that eventually populated   
   the Americas occurred in three separate migrations.The largest of these   
   groups is referred to as the Amerind (Paleo-Indians). The Amerind, which   
   includes most Native Americans south of the Canadian border, commenced   
   around 11,500 B.C..A second migration called the Na-Dene occurred   
   between 10,000 B.C. and 8, 000 B.C.. Even though at this point the   
   Bering Sea separated Siberia and Alaska, it was only three miles wide in   
   some places.   
      
   The Athapascan speaking populations of Canada and the United States   
   belong to this group of migrants. The Apache and Navajo in the   
   southwestern United States are from the Athapascan migrants.   
      
   The third migration around 3,000 B.C. included the Aleuts and Eskimos of   
   Alaska, Canada, and the Aleutian Islands (Taylor).   
      
   According to modern belief The Navajos are descended from that great   
   race which produced Genghis Khan and conquered in his lifetime half the   
   world. While the victorious Mongols were driving relentlessly west and   
   south, making kings and emperors their vassals, some small fragments of   
   their clans were crossing Bering Sea, probably on the ice, and gradually   
   overrunning North America.   
      
   There are, many significant facts which, to the student of literature at   
   least, prove an Asiatic origin.The Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, who   
   visited the Court of Kublai Khan in 1275, gives some very interesting   
   accounts of the Mongols,At a later date the French Jesuit, M. Hue,   
   describes the wild tribes of the Grasslands. We have thus a picture of   
   the social life of the Mongols with which to make comparisons.   
   Both authors agree that among the primitive Mongols the women attended   
   to all the trading.They bought and sold and provided every necessity for   
   their husbands and families: ‘The time of the men,’ as Marco Polo says,   
   ‘being entirely devoted to hunting, hawking, and matters that relate to   
   military life.’   
   The same is true among the Navajos to-day, as far as the women are   
   concerned.   
      
   “Wherever they went — until the white people subdued them — the Dineh’   
   like the Mongols, were raiders and spoilers. The mystery of the vanished   
   Cliff-Dwellers is a mystery no longer when we know the nature of the   
   warriors who came among them. The Zuñis told Cushing that twenty-two   
   different tribes had been wiped out by the Enemy People, as they called   
   them; and the walled-up doors of proud Pueblo Bonito testify mutely to   
   the fears of its inhabitants.” (Dane Coolidge 1930)"   
      
      
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