There's your republican "family values" right there. Sleazy excuses for doing wrong.

Respect for other is correct - not politically correct or anything else - just plain correct. republicans and their spawn have pissed all over that basic life concept, and it shows.

The pain of loss. How does the kid not have even an inkling? Trump appeals to kids who don’t want to feel empathy. It’s too much trouble and brings pain to your own life.

Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and you'd BETTER fucking respect them.

They are the definition of clueless hateful privileged white kids. Not a good look.

I'm not saying condone it, but these are teenage boys for fuck sake...they have sawdust for brains. Always have, always will. Clueless to the max. And don't forget mob mentality that seems to rule in situations like this. Any boy who steps in to quiet the group would be shouted down and later shunned or teased on social media.

Maybe your young son is a nice guy, but having lived for 67 years in this world, I'm observed this is the norm not the exception.

This is why I don't jump in here very often.

It's why they're around the northern rim. They only even reached parts of Greenland after the Vikings left, they're that recent. (Yes, it means the Danes were the first settlers and are therefore as "indigenous" to Greenland as you can get.)

The people whose artifacts they have found from tens of thousands of years ago, were Europeans. So they believe that gives Europeans more of a claim. It is all bs but that is what I think he means. And there is no difference between aboriginal americans and native American. Just different ways of saying the same thing.

What they're saying is that folk like Kennewick Man were here before the ancestors of the Native Americans. Based mostly on physical anthropological information, it was determined that he wasn't ancestral to Native Americans.

Therefore, the reasoning went, later immigrants genocided his kind, either through assimilation or aggression.

It wasn't until a few years ago that the DNA data was available and even then direct ancestry is difficult to establish. Kennewick Man's DNA is closest to Native American DNA. In particular, closest to a tribe not far from where he was found. That's where DNA leaves us.

The standard interpretation now is that he's ancestral. That's mostly because nobody wants to be accused of disbelieving the oppressed and challenging that conclusion. However, it's difficult enough to detect the Celtic substratum in France or Britain or the Slavic substratum in eastern Germany given rather more remains than we have of Paleoamericans from that time (which would be "1" ... not much statistics there). There certainly was invasion and assimilation/aggression in the European cases, but the peoples were already similar genetically and the substratum fully assimilated. Does that mean that a German has rights to ancient Slavic remains in the area because the DNA linkage means they have the same cultural beliefs? That's way beyond sketchy--and that's only 1500 years difference--but it's the state of the politics.

The other problem is that the state of DNA research in native tribes is crappy. It's always getting better--it's hard for it to get worse--but there's poor coverage and even with that coverage there's often poor documentation.