[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Blam,

I just read your kindly offered article of The Samurai and the Ainu. At the bottom of the article it say:

Comment. Fringe anthropology notes many "white" races in strange places; viz., the white Indians of Panama and the Mandans of the American West.

I live in Panama and there are NO white Indians here. The author is confused with the Kuna Yala Indians who live in the San Blas Islands (Atlantic coast). They have a high rate of albinos due to their closed society (interbreeding) and not due to being some kind of white race.

Again…there are no white Indians in Panama.

[Docbarleypop]

The Mandans of America???? I am from Mandan ND where the Mandan tribe is from and the decendents are as stereotypical Native American/Indian in appearence as you would think possible. I understand that there was alot of inter-marriage among the three affiliated tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara) but not enough to make them "white".

[blam]

"I live in Panama and there are NO white Indians here. The author is confused with the Kuna Yala Indians who live in the San Blas Islands (Atlantic coast). They have a high rate of albinos due to their closed society (interbreeding) and not due to being some kind of white race."

"Again…there are no white Indians in Panama."

Okay, thanks. I had never heard about the Kuna until you mentioned it.

[Cronos]

Comment. Fringe anthropology notes many "white" races in strange places; viz., the white Indians of Panama and the Mandans of the American West.

The term "white" is silly -- if they mean Caucasian, they should use that term. If you go by the coloring only, then races do blur -- extremely pale Japanese for example, while Caucasian Iranians and Indians are much darker, as are some Italians and Greeks and Semitic peoples