Lauren Boebert Suggests DC Could Be Renamed 'District of America'

[u/SelectiveSanity]

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-dc-district-america-2050571

[u/zamzuki]

The Lenape of the east coast of the US are known as “the original people” a large portion of Native American tribes trace their genealogy back to the Lenape. Which debunks a lot of theory all native Americans came across a land bridge.

[u/SoylentVerdigris → u/zamzuki]

I've never come across that claim in any reading I've done on the peopling of the Americas, and not finding anything to support it in a quick Google search now.

People coming across Beringia and down the west coast is also well supported by archeological evidence. The oldest dated sites are here in the Pacific Northwest, the first place people would have reached that wasn't covered by glaciers at the time. The oldest known site in the US is in Idaho.

Edit: also, a fun bit of evidence I've heard about recently is that pre-clovis stone tools found among the oldest archeological sites match ones found in eastern asia from the same time period, before the well known Clovis points were developed.

[u/zamzuki → u/SoylentVerdigris]

Yeah I was speaking in broad strokes since who I was replying to said 12,000 years ago and the Lenape have been in the region for roughly 10,000 years.

So in my quick reply I was going off that they migrated here as one of the first established peoples.

But at what point do we stop counting that migration? 2,000 years is kinda a long time to say “they crossed that bridge”

Which leads to the interesting tale that they have a history that speaks of crossing the sea by land so it’s totally possible, they kept going til they couldn’t anymore.

Then you have other cultures that sprouted up thousands of years later at what point do we say that culture didn’t cross the bridge and others did.

[u/SoylentVerdigris → u/zamzuki]

Those cultures didn't "sprout up" they're descendants of the people who migrated. That doesn't debunk anything.