What a totally AWESOME THREAD!!!!!!!!!
There is so much to read, I only got half-way through...will read the rest later.
I too, don't feel Columbus discovered America first...he may have been the first to claim it...but not the first to discover it.
I love watching the History Channel, Learning Channel, etc....and there was a show on some time back about Columbus and some other guy (name slips my mind at the moment). I felt it was this other guy who discovered America.
I have recently been interested in Native American roots, as my dau is of Miami, Quapaw and Ottawa descent.
From what I have gathered, Ottawa Indians started in Canada, moved into the NY region (Notre Dame area). The Miami's were part of the Ottawa at one time, settled in the Indiana region and still researching the Quapaw.
But from what I can gather, they all came from the same tribe, just some went in one direction and others the other way.
Pretty much like we do today. Our families don't stay put in the same location much anymore. I have siblings all over the place, cousins even other locations from siblings...I just think it's our nature to move around, finding a better quality of life, etc...
Some years back, I also watched a show about DNA testing. In Australia, they did a DNA test on many (can't remember the actual count) of Caucasions and found that a majority of them carried the DNA of Africian Americans....well, heck, I bet you would find some in my DNA too...
The oldest skull found to date, was found in Africia!
I find interesting the "story of the ICE MAN"!!!
I tell my kids too (as I read someone posted about someone trying to get school books changed to correct history)....that just because they teach it in school and it's in the school book, DOES NOT MAKE IT FACT!! They hide alot of things and only teach you what they want you to know...and when a teacher speaks out and tells the truth, they get slammed for it!!!!
Read where someone posted about the Smithonian dumping things in the ocean

? OMG!!! I hear also, from someone I know that use to work there many years ago, that they have storage place with boxes and boxes of stuff, yet to be displayed, inventoried...nothing is done with them. This is stuff from Estate where people donated items to the museum to things found in digs, etc....How I would love to get into that room!!!!!!!
That is why I so love the history of the digs done on my hubby's property, it pre-dates the LOST COLONY and shows that the English were in the Outer Banks long before the Lost Colony folks ever showed up!!!!!!
I so love reading about the little people and the giants, and about the cave findings. Keep posting...this is so interesting!!!!!!!!