Reply #12: So you'd rather not be here?

[aquart]

Because I see all the people who came to find a future for their children. I see the courage involved in getting on a boat and going to god knows what.

It is charming that you idealize the lives of the inhabitants we displaced, but let me know when you find a square inch of land on this planet that is NOT drenched in blood. Amerindians came, by language, in four different waves. You think Wave 2 was best friends with Wave 1? Have you seen the Mississippian fortifications? Do you get that pueblos were built because they were easy to defend and safe from attack? Yet we still find arrowheads in pueblo indian skulls?

Have you figured out yet how words like papoose and almost anything in Nahuatl have a clear indoeuropean derivation? How the Jomon pottery got to Peru? Why knot writing is only known in two places? China and Peru?

And then there are the indications of pre-amerindian first wave population. Whatever happened to them?

You've distorted the long and bloody history of the Americas to suit your simplistic notions.

So have fun starving yourself.