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Were Americans brown before Europeans arrived?

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wildbill83 · 41-45, M
my great grandmother was cherokee, tanned, but still fair skinned
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
From what I can tell Native Americans came in various shades, depending on tribe and their geographic origins prior to immigrating to the Americas.
MethDozer · M
@AthrillatheHunt
because they didn’t have a written language

Thats nit entirely true. Olmec, Aztec, mayans and other meso Americans had writen languaged.
Haudensoneee had a recirfef language using wampum beeds. The inca used knotted cords to record history, data, and events. The ojibwa used birch scrolls to record on.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@MethDozer their understanding of the natural world (including astronomy) was beyond belief . You mentioned the southern empires . The people in n America were mostly semi if not totally nomadic w no huge empire like Maya Inca etc..no what people consider “civilizations “ in modern US
MethDozer · M
@AthrillatheHunt the country America no, the continent yes. Maya, olmec, and Aztec were North American empires
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@MethDozer I amended to say modern day US borders not n America continent . We had tribes not civilizations
justanothername · 51-55, M
You mean Native American Indians?

Yes they were and still are.

Why are you asking?
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
justanothername · 51-55, M
@Ferise1 That bigger painting is an artistic interpretation. The other photos displayed are accurate

Why the questions about skin color?
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@Ferise1 I never found the term offensive commanders just doesn’t hit the same
YoMomma ·
The natives you mean?
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
Funny thing is that the brown Americans that existed before the white Americans began arriving in the 1400s say that they drove out white Americans that were here before them.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@hippyjoe1955 Asian people had several thousand years of history on this continent before it was named America . I don’t dismiss their history . I just don’t know it , because they didn’t have a written language , like in many sub Sahara countries . They don’t even know when they came to this continent . We had to tell them it was millennium ago from a land bridge
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@AthrillatheHunt Oral traditions are surprisingly accurate. Sadly you have what is known as cultural conceit.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@hippyjoe1955 is that what I have ? I thought it was just just that time of the month for me
Monalisasmith86 · 41-45, F
No they are lying
Ferise1 · 46-50, M

 
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