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1 min readMay 9, 2023

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You're conflating. And to answer you question, DNA evidence does point to the Clovis peoples coming from Northeast Asia.

That diesnt negate that they were the first people's here.

It doesn't negate colonization.

It doesn't mean the Bering Strait migration was the only one.

It does not mean the Bering Sterait theory is a rewrite of Indigenous creation stories and mythology. Indeed, if Indigenous peoples arrived here via several migrations, then of course there would be several very distinct traditions. They came from several different peoples over a fairly large stretch of time. Ergo, the Berinf Strait theory is the origin story of ONE group. By the author's logic, if there's DNA evidence then disregarding the Bering Strait migration and claiming it sidnt happen because it doesn't line up with ALL the migrations not be erasure of their contribution to Indigenous culture? How is that okay? How is it not the same thing as her narrative about Europeans believing the theory? There is evidence. It's all over Wikipedia. This theory wasn't just pulled out of someone's ass.

It does mean that while the Bering Strait migration was an incomplete theory, it is not a fabrication or a dog whistle.

It also means that it was not studied and creates as a mrans to subvert Indigenous peoples.

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