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Date Posted: Fri, 11/22/02 5:37pm
Author: john mohdom
Subject: Re: Lakota question
In reply to: Bella 's message, "Re: Lakota question" on Fri, 11/22/02 2:33pm

>A documentary
>screened this week (which I recorded on tape but have
>not had time to watch yet) claims that the original
>inhabitants of America were French!

Oy! you'd think that if you saw all the French family names among the Anishinaabe in Minnesota and North Dakota (and neighbors). ...silly me, I thought that was because of the much much later fur traders here.

>I expect you know of this theory already, I knew of
>the Norsemen theory, but had never heard this
>"Europeans as first inhabitants" theory before.

I've heard europeans first theory but NOT French...also, was there a France at the time this supposedly happened.
but this might explain why those Shinobs lived in a ouigiwa. 80)



>
>As far as the "coloured cloth" theory binding red,
>black, white and yellow together, presumably some
>people have put their own slant on ancient ceremonies,
>with the benefit of modern day knowledge and
>experience. It sounds like one of those rather "new
>agey" interpretations. My knowledge of Lakota
>ceremonies is non existent, but I don't see how any
>ancient ceremony could include that reference to the
>races of the world.
>
>Bella

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