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The Daly Digest
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Is the end of the world near? What do scientists think?
Story by Zeleb.es • Look with interest at how the orderly Earth has suddenly changed.
a) The earliest Americans arrived in the New World 30,000 years ago. People travelled by boat to North America some 30,000 years ago, at a time when giant animals still roamed the continent and long before it was thought the earliest arrivals had made the crossing from Asia, archaeological research reveals today. Jul 22, 2020
July 1643
b) Did they think these acts of nature were works of the devil or acts of God? The first possible tornado report in the United States occurred in July 1643 in Lynn, Newbury, and Hampton, Massachusetts, documented by author David Ludlam.
Counting the Dead: Estimating the Loss of Life in the Indigenous Holocaust, 1492-Present David Michael Smith University of Houston-Downtown During the past century, researchers have learned a great deal about the nature and scope of what Russell Thornton has called the demographic collapse of the Indigenous population in the Western Hemisphere after 1492.1 As David Stannard has explained, the almost inconceivable number of deaths caused by the invasion and conquest of these lands by Europeans and their descendants constitute “the worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed.”
Other devastating assaults on these ways of life included the Spanish missions in California, Florida, and Texas; the U.S. government’s attempts to make Plains Indians into cattle ranchers and southern Indians into American farmers…efforts by churches and governments to undermine Indian religious, governmental, and kinship systems