Yvsa

[Rusty]

Maybe because it's toward the surnise or new day, and the sun sets in the west - hence the term walked west for someone who's passed on or passes before us.

No idea, I'm just shooting from the hip. Yvsa?

 

[DPris]

I'd heard there was a connection with the rising sun, but wondered if the reason was mythic, mystic, or practical.
Denis

 

[Lion's Roar]

I'm just now catching up on this thread.

The story I was told wasn't that we came from over the Bering Strait, but that we came BACK over the Bering Strait after visiting.

Betcha don't find that in the library....

 

[MadMark]

Thanks for the reply, Yvsa. It's a fascinating subject. I've heard stories about Indians who speak a language similar to Welsh, too. I imagine there has been a lot of unrecorded trips back and forth.
Lion's Roar, I like that story.

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

Acording to recent discoveries in Brazil, the earliest inhabitants of the Americas were not Mongoloids from Asia, but Negroids related to the Aborigines of Australia. These Negroid remains predate the earliest Mongoloid remains by thousands of years.

How they got there is under debate, but cave paintings show pictures of boats with features that would make them seaworthy. The paintings also show scenes of war, which the Negroids evidently lost to the Mongoloids.

 

[kronckew]

For centuries there have been stories of blue eyed blond haired Cherokee

My Son is 6ft.6in. & 1/4 Blackfoot, he's also Blond & Blue-eyed. we bin 'melting' in the backwoods of piney grove for a long time....(Great-Granny was full blooded Blackfoot)

My side of the family was Celtic from the celtic areas of the austro-hungarian empire. (galatia) once covered most of northern europe, france, spain & england.

i'm sure they probably visited my other ancestral relatives across the big water 20000 years ago. the historians make assumptions which are turning out NOT to be true, as yvsa said, there were people living in the states before the upstart newcomer asian immigrants, (apparently they have found a few survivors from the earlier age down in so. america (tierra del fuego) who were NOT asian orgin but MUCH earlier).

i'm sure there was trade and intermingling well before this round of recorded history. if we blow it, there'll be historians 20000 years from now talking about the lack of evidence of civilization (steel rusts away, don't it?) in gafllooziland before the immigration of blond haired black skinned flint-knapping flammmarians. history travels in circles... there is only one people. us.

 

[Lion's Roar]

I've known some big dudes that were Tsalagi (Cherokee) and Apache both.

The Tsalagi have an old story of Africans coming to Turtle Island (US) by boat. It's a pre-European story.

I've heard rumour by a Choctaw that there might have been a similar story with the Romans- but I don't really know anything about that one.

David