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Anasazi Lies? Taking the Past Back. | 15:21Navajo Traditional Teachings | 251K subscribers | 70,830 views | July 10, 2023

Perched on a lonesome bluff above the dusty San Pedro River, about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising. Some 700 years ago, as part of a vast migration, a people called the Anasazi, driven by God knows what, wandered from the north to form settlements like these, stamping the land with their own unique style. “Salado polychrome,” says a visiting archaeologist turning over a shard of broken pottery. Reddish on...

PORTLAND, Maine — A group of pro-abortion rights protesters descended on the Eastern Prominade in Portland Monday prior to the city's July Fourth fireworks celebration in an effort to keep abortion rights on the mind, and to highlight what they believe is the loss of independence for women on Independence Day. “We have less rights than my mother," said protester Tracey Falla. "My daughter has less rights than her grandmother had. It's ridiculous. We are going backwards and it's not OK.” The protest was not organized by a specific group, but a grassroots network of advocates. Organizers say there is...

Monday, February 16, 2015 A Revisionist Muslim History of America Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blogTurkish President Erdogan’s claim that Columbus encountered a mosque in Cuba (the explorer actually saw a rock whose shape he compared to the dome of a mosque) and a Saudi Imam claiming that Columbus had sailed to America to attack Muslims are typical of an emerging genre of Muslim revisionist history that lays claim to America based on an imaginary earlier Muslim presence here. While these examples may be laughable, Muslim historical revisionism has taken root in academia. It can be found...