Wonderful post, ES. Blunt without being nasty. I often forget that second part :)

The same hundred or so years has preached the gospel that all the original inhabitants of the Americas came across an ice bridge at the end of the last ice age. It is simply not so.

Native people have long been said to have no history or culture past what we can see. Their histories claim very much otherwise and are starting to prove out even in the arrogant scientific community. The one that builds a box, puts and entire continent in it and calls it solved.

Urrgghhh. There are so many things I could say here, but I probably need to be silent for a change. It really is up to the people themselves what their terminology should be, not to the 'powers that be'.

Thanks for an extraordinary article. I hope you may have caused a few to be awakened.