A friend and myself were both just talking about what exactly constitutes a "Native American" just a little while ago because we both are taking part in a human genome study that is taking place. This film is a result of that same study that is still ongoing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAnx_487if0
Anyway, my reasons for taking part in this study were many fold. As is usually the case I researched the crap out of it verifying the PHD for each person studying me. They find me quite interesting you see. I took part in it because they took advantage of my lack of information about myself. I knew nothing about my bio father and my mother was very tight lipped about it. All my life I was a salesman on the road social as hell. The butterfly and I was quite good at it. I rocked for many years. I was fortunate but in Aug of 98 I nearly died in a car accident. I hit my head pretty good. They cut me out with the jaws of life and when I recovered I was different. As it turns out I was always borderline Aspergers Syndrome but after the accident it kicked in worse. I became awkward socially and if a customer was bored or angry, sad or flat out hitting on me I didn't get it. It changed and as a result I could not do what I did for all those years so I was in good shape although I had no idea what I'd do. I sold my interests and moved on where I started doing what people with my syndrome do. I zeroed in on one or two things which I became quite masterful at. Guess what they were?
You are probably asking about now so Steve what the hell does this have to do with this thread? Esav is probably sitting on the trigger wondering if I've gone off the deep end but I assure you I haven't. I bring it up to point out that in the course of taking part in this DNA human genome study I have also had an intense and completely different history lesson from the one I was brought up to believe. The DNA and archaeological record both indicate that Caucasians were the original occupants of North America and parts of Japan as well as China, Turkey, Scandi countries as we know and a land now gone, a real life sunken continent called Doggerland. This is what our grandchildren will be taught. The dark skinned peoples came here making us move before we came back and we being whites since I'm white as can be apparently and from Dogglerland Scandinavia, Finn, Denmark, Ireland Scottish Brit origins.
So the real question starts to arise that we have been in a mass amnesia as a world not just one or two cultures. There was a cataclysm. Several in series and I understand a new film is coming about Doggerland, the peoples from there, what they accomplished and how it is probably the culture referred to as that sunk under the sea during the last and final oncoming Tsunami that finished the string of islands off the coast of Eire (Ireland) and certain other advances are also being made from this study ladies and gentleman. This is not race or prejudice driven info. This is science being shown to back up a lot of history and myth and what we are finding is that we didn't know the truth. Truth what is that? Truth is serpent mount in Ohio is a clear copy of one found in Ireland. For why you'll have to take part in the study and find out about the DNA to back up those claims. I think the study is closed for now but others like 23andme are doing them and these are affiliated. My case is for people with my syndrome although I am on the other one as well. Feeling like a lab rat at times has its price but I have learned a lot and my encyclopedia like processing has digested and absorbed quite a bit. The linguistics for example are quite revealing. Ancient Gaelic as it turns out is not only very similar to Hebrew with many of the same root words but quite obviously a branch off the same vine and the linguistics show it quite readily. We have a new history being done real time as we think we know the old. When you look at the Synthians and study their language for example the word for Stag is Ayr or Air as I recall and in Egypt the word for stag was Air also and myths from Ireland/Scotland say of a group from Sythia/Egypt with my gene pool came up from there with Milesians between 400 and 600 BC. A Egyptian burial and now more have been found in Ireland, the language and the DNA tie it all together. White people by the DNA these people possessed and they are recorded to have by the Prophet Jeremiah allegedly who was accopanied by a daughter of Pharaoh, Tea whereupon the land of Ireland, the Celts were converted to Judaism after Tea was wed to King Eochaid. Now this is history. Not some bull. Its being told to me as fact after paying some monies to learn about my roots and family history. Aspergers runs on my bio father's side and I have been in touch with my half sisters now to find that out, found along with hundreds of other relatives I have, some very close, all over the world. By the way, Queen Tea is buried in Tara. No joke. The monument has been there a long time.
Its been said to me by a PHD, that the name Warnick, my bio dad's name means "War-Devil" as the Sythian language Nikor = devil. Later War-nick became a title. The Warnicks or Victors, vicotorious ones or clean up crews distributing loot and plunder as they were warlord chieftans. Anyway, same guy that told me that said Ireland was called Eire, the stag was worshiped the stag was Air or Ayr =Aryan = stag worship, the maggi were the wise priests the maggi were the three "Celtic" priests mentioned in the bible go ahead and dwell on that for a while and I'll stop. The point is I have studied history all my life and I didn't know squat!
Maybe there's some stuff that's handed down but for the most part first peoples live modern lives and would be just as out of place in the woods or in some cases more so then your random hillbilly. I agree with your premise that you should adopt whatever method is being used locally but I disagree that first peoples are always the best people to learn from. YMMV.
