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First Americans

2naSalit

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5. Native American culture...

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Tue Mar 16, 2021, 08:13 AM

Mar 2021

Includes ancient history in the present day, they know, or knew, from whence they came to whatever present day you can refer. Pueblo established permanent homeplaces and have lived in those places for longer than we can imagine.

The current Laguna Pueblo, where she is from, was established in 1699 though her family may have been from another, older one prior to that.

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i have a question. haaland says she is 35th generation pueblo. [View all] mopinko Mar 2021 OP

I don't believe Pueblo Indian were nomadic. They lived in the same settlements for eons. Dream Girl Mar 2021 #1

yeah. mopinko Mar 2021 #4

Anasazi, a civilization that arose as early as 1500 B.C. Their descendants are today's Pueblo Indian Goonch Mar 2021 #2

Mathematically, this comes out of the 550 to 840 year range elias7 Mar 2021 #3

i was sorta going by my own tree. mopinko Mar 2021 #6

I can go back to the early 1400's and my English ancestors. GemDigger Mar 2021 #13

it's.not.an.ISSUE. mopinko Mar 2021 #14

I usually consider 20 yrs for a generation, but Irish men tended to marry later in life Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #16

yup. my ggramps was 42. mopinko Mar 2021 #19

Right, my grandfather was 35 when he married. And 20 yr span of children. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #21

I came up with the same numbers for 35 generations. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #18

That pretty well fits the timeline for wnylib Mar 2021 #26

Native American culture... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #5

the anisazi were sure firmly rooted. mopinko Mar 2021 #7

??? llashram Mar 2021 #8

I know. Dream Girl Mar 2021 #9

just interested in how many actual named ancestors she has. mopinko Mar 2021 #11

And you ask because why? n/t Bobstandard Mar 2021 #10

pure curiosity. mopinko Mar 2021 #12

My brother's YDNA testing shows ancient Irish origins. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #15

yeah, i'm tempted to do that. mopinko Mar 2021 #17

The DNA testing has been a lot of fun and I learned things I never Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #20

i've done the regular dna. mopinko Mar 2021 #22

Right, the DNA tells the story over family oral history. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #23

i found a cousin in oz mopinko Mar 2021 #24

So much fun to meet DNA cousins and learn family history. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #25