Re: Amerind an offensive term (was: Early Amerind assimilation

Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
4 Aug 1996 16:20:04 -0600

In article <4u0mck$9fs@bone.think.com>,
Eric Brunner <brunner@mandrake.think.com> wrote:
>
>: Um, does this include the Navajo "squatters" on "pueblo" lands, or the
>: Apache "squatters" who displaced desert tribes before them? Or only
>: squatters who were more efficient in their brutality and (slightly) more
>: bound by law?
>
>Of course not, however, if you do have a factual grasp of the Dine-Hopi
>(alt: everbody vs. Peabody & the US) dispute, then you'd know why.

You misconstrued what I was alluding to. The Dine arrived (as evidenced
by archaeological evidence) after the Pueblos, in the Southwest. As did
the Apache.

Bryant