B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 08, 2015

I was born here. That makes me a native American.

But… let me reassure you that discovery is essentially a European activity. Peoples have been wandering all over the world being the first to do something, or go somewhere, probably as long as there have been people, however it is a purely European weirdness to then go around claiming that you did it first and that your dad can beat up the other guy’s dad. Note, for example, that the most important act in the claim that Columbus discovered America was the printing and wide dissemination of a letter claiming that he’d done it and that his dad could beat up anyone else’s dad.

I have nothing left to discover.Every place on Earth is already known to somebody.There is no reason for me to ever leave my little circle of pedantic perfection. Read a book? Not me. Somebody already read it. Heck, somebody wrote it. Nothing new there. Thus, I have attained perfect knowledge of all things.

I wonder if there are any Native Americans who hear Trump’s ‘policies’ and think, darn, wish we’d thought of that a few hundred years ago.

“MY ancestors came across on the Mayflower!”“Well, MY ancestors met them here.”

Actually, Asians were in Canada first, then Canadians were in the US first . Their descendants are the ones we call natives (actually indigenous… I, too, am a native born in California.) Ultimately, though, we are all African.

Oh please. And who did they wipe out when they crossed the bearing straight

Humans are not native to this hemisphere…we just arrived at different times, so, if you want to say “Oldest”, or “First”, fine, although, then you have to figure out which tribe(s), assuming that tribe still exists…So, I guess I resent that you are willing to lump together all Asian migrants indiscriminately, but exclude anyone who came across the Atlantic.

I thought all the Native American played for the Washington Redskins.

i’m just here to read comments and wait for someone to cite the Solutrean Hypothesis… and read more comments after that.

No such thing.They were early Asian immigrants.

I married a Native American and now I’m going to make a Natural Selection and visit a different comic…

Boring political correctness.

What about the Vikings??

Even “Native Americans” is a lie. They came here via the land bridge across the Bering Sea from Asia. Pronghorn antelope is among the few actual native Americans.

Hmmm, I wonder where the “American” Indians came from? I’m pretty sure they weren’t here first.

Discovery, unaltered by any adjective such as “initially” or some other qualifier, is an interesting word, as anyone can “discover” something, even something known to the masses. Example – “I discovered a great new restaurant.” The person saying that didn’t create the restaurant nor did s/he stumble upon it in the woods or wash up on its shores while it was unoccupied save for the owner and employees. So while the collective groups of people we refer to variously as “Indians” or “Native Americans” were perhaps the first humanoids to settle the Western Hemisphere, I’m sure there were birds here first and various other fauna, without which the first humanoids would have starved. Possibly there had been other groups of humanoids here, which the occupants of 1491 had already displaced and killed. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good verb to replace “discovered”. Just the qualifiers such as “initially”.

Fiat acomplii!

How about asking Neil Armstrong?

There is some evidence that Europeans got here first. There are spear and arrow points used by the Clovis people that resemble those used in Neolithic Europe more than those used in Siberia. It’s still a theory in search of more proof.

Let’s just do the right thing and give the world back to the stones and the wind. Living things have no place here. They are interlopers who have invaded a once peaceful world with their eating and being eaten. It is barbaric!

I am of Norwegian descent, and it was actually Norse Vikings who had discovered this continent, not Columbus. Columbuswas a real dummy. This is why I call him “Clod-dumb-us”.

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No human being is native to any land anywhere, as the land came way before humans. There are only the first humans in each area, but that does not make them indigenous. At least in the americas, every human who came here was an immigrant. Land belongs only to those who can take it, hold it and defend it. That has been the rule of history since time began.