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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: "Eskimos" (was: Re: Crystal e le "continuo dialectal")
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 05:28:23 GMT
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In article <4l89sm$j0a@panix2.panix.com>, Pierre Jelenc <rcpj@panix.com> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> writes:
>> In article <4l5moe$4rl@panix2.panix.com>, Pierre Jelenc <rcpj@panix.com> wrote:
>> >Eric Brunner <brunner@bullhead.think.com> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> Stop the Presses!!! White people are indigenous to the Americas!!! Film at 11!
>> >
>> >Humans are not indigenous to the Americas.
>> 
>> Quel baratin!  So you're saying the Anasazi were exotics?
>
>It is pretty much established without any doubt that all humans in the
>Americas came from the "Old World".
 
Talk to Anna Roosevelt about that.

And 12,000+ years of habitation is stretching the definition of 
"not indigenous" (indigenous <- L. INDV (arch. form of IN "within") +
GENO (arch. form of GIGNERE "beget")).  Where, selon vous, are 
humans "indigenous" (besides the African savannah)?

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