[marktwain]

Kind of silly talking about a few “Asian” sailors on Spanish vessels, when the whole two continents were settled by Asians who crossed over from Siberia thousands of years earlier.

[Larry Lucido]

Ah, but the Chinese restaurants and laundries were still way off in the future.

[Theoria]

The silliness the that they appeared on the continent and went into a dark age, like the first settlers of Australia. Those groups never formed groups or developed societies capable of sailing supremacy, while other cultures did, and sailed. The dark ages of Australia and the first peoples of the Americas are unknown. Just as Africa didn't conquer and develop Madagascar, a few miles form their shores, but Malaysian sailors, traveling thousands of miles away did. History is unique in every way.

[Vigilanteman]

At one time, most scientists thought the whole two continents were settled by Asians who crossed over from Siberia thousands of years earlier.

Now, they are less sure. I studied under a legendary professor named Ed Milligan (He Topa was his Sioux name after the tribe adopted him) who thought they were only a part of the migration. People thought he was an unorthodox crazy in those days. Now, they are actually strating to pay attention to some of what he wrote and collected.