Falling Out

Or ousted if anyone's interested in being no word words.

Read one of the Toronto free dailies today and it had an interview with Clinton.  A lot of politics lately, see most recent posts.

Well, trading being what it is I'm supposed to wonder about ancestors.  When Europeans and perhaps also the recent 'land/ice bridge' migrations came to Canada, North America, it is rumoured our indigenous ancestors weren't considered human.  Savages without benefit of 'civilization.' As genetics prove Indigenous Canadians, North America's First People, date back over 15,000 years, the non human stories get more wild.  Our Indigenous ancestors were not considered 'modern' humans.  This story is complicated by a recent discovery in Mexico of an artifact 13,000 years old, approximately, that some consider not human.  This occurred after the AFN ordered a study of their ancestoral migration, west coast, that genetics indicate are a recent migration, well under 5000 years old.  Mexico is part of North America and the AFN and others would simply dismiss older migrations as not modern, non human, as has been the excuse in the past.

The difficulty here, aside from the recent migrations commonly excusing those there before them as savages, non humans; is that genetics indicate that Indigenous North Americans did not use the 'land/ice bridge' and are more European than the recent migrations.  Across the pond, over a shallower Atlantic on strong currents between Americas and Europe like Ireland, Scotland, British Isles.  The Mexican discovery seems to indicate another route from South America, although this is mostly discounted as the 'land/ice bridge' too.

It's difficult to argue that Indigenous Canadians, first people, are not human since the genetics indicate Europe to North America before 'land/sea bridge' migrations came all the way around or from Pacific islands.  We did, however, leave Africa north.

In lore as Europeans, Pacific islanders, 'bridge' people and other recent migrations discovered our ancestors, first people, they discounted them as non human.  We are all familiar with the savage and non civilized non human discounting.

Another, more recent story might be non humans are made human by being consumed by a 'great spirit.'  This is what migrations brought to the first peoples.  Eternal life, their lives consumed, catalogued and preserved and civilized.  One might say resting in the clouds of computers.  Others might call it a disease brought by the recent migrations.  Either way, first contact was always an aggressor, trying to make the ancestors something they're not, raising them... to migrations standards.  All disease and consuming.

Yes, we believe in the great spirit... animals have spirits...we have governments...we trade...we dance...we have meetings and treaties...the environment is special to us...we build houses...we farm...we have medicine...etc.

The only thing agreeable compromises with migrations seem to lack is agreement that Indigenous North Americans ranged all over North America; no boundaries or territories...

So sure, we're really consumed and made human and modern stored in a computer.  What is more non human?