Tuesday, December 19, 2006
By Jennifer
Before the US and Mexico created the borders between the two countries, Amerindians (North and South of the border) traveled back and forth whenever they wanted. Although the U.S. Native American population has gone almost extinct, the Indians South of the border meshed into what we now know as the Mexican people.
The U.S. thought it could put what was left of it's native population on reservations in areas that nobody wanted to live in (i.e. Wisconsin, etc.). Little did they know that God has a sense of humor, or that Karma bites, or that the laws of physics would prevail or whatever your spiritual belief; I believe that the original inhabitants of the Americas will make their presence known again.
Here's the fact; or at least the theory of the Amerindians in the Americas. Tainos, Caribes, North American, Mayan and Incas: they all have similar physical characteristics. It's said that at one time all the countries fit together like a puzzle and formed a single continent - that the reason Asian people have similar features with Native American Indians groups is that when the countries were all one - that the Asians just walked over.
Whether the Tainos themselves actually stepped foot on North America before Columbus, I don't know - but I do know that when the Europeans originally came to the new world, they were treated like gods by the Tainos, and history says the North American Indians treated them with respect as well (the 1st Thanksgiving; etc, etc), until the trust between the groups was threatened.
If the Tainos themselves were not specifically in North America before the Europeans, there were at least groups of indigeneous peoples that traveled freely between the islands and what is now North and South America.
The U.S. was formed and put up its borders, and said "we are now our own nation" but I believe that things will level off, and borders; just like rules, are sometimes made to be broken.
Posted by USTaino at 2:42 AM
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