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Published on Oct 10, 2016
Native Americans try to describe Columbus in one word.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)landed some where in Central America, never came to what is now the United States. I suppose it was Captain John Cook who claimed to discover Hawaii too.. but my Ancestors where there already.. having lived peaceful Lives. (Tahiti has a Cooks Bay for John Cook, who also discovered that Island, yet there were already Polynesians there for quite a long time.)
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)Some returned to Wales. Many stayed. They were tribal people, so their co-mingling with the native people isn't an unrealistic scenario.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)It still hasn't been proven. I'm not saying it didn't happen. There's just no archaeological evidence that he did. The story says that he landed in Alabama based on burial mounds, but I'll wait until there's evidence proving it. And this is from a dyed in the wool Welsh supporter.
Siwsan
(26,289 posts)I'm more inclined than disinclined to believe it. There are just too may stories, out there. And there was a DNA study being done, but I'm not sure what it turned up. I'll have to do some digging.
Funny thing, though, when I went to pow wows with my native friends, people who didn't know me would sometimes act a little standoffish and mistrustful. But my friends would always say, "Don't worry about Siwsan - she's almost one of us. She's Welsh."
Ice always melted, immediately.
That is great about your Native friends.