No surprise there

So years of testing have confirmed that native North Americans are descended from Asians.  Didn't we all know that already?  They arrived here when there was a land bridge between Asia and North America. 

The remains of a one-year-old infant, buried 12,600 years ago in Montana and dug up in 1968, prove that the genetic legacy of the "Clovis" people is Asian.  In fact, 80 percent of Indians are direct descendants or distant cousins of these people.  Duh, the only question is why it took more than 40 years to prove it. 

So, as I have always believed, "native" Canadians are no more "native" than the rest of us.  They didn't poof down from outer space, they just got here earlier.  Depending upon your beliefs, human evolution began in Africa or The Garden of Eden, not North America.  If you use the dictionary description of "native", i.e., indigenous, born in the country in which they live, all Canadian-born people are "native" -- either that or none of us is. 

Speaking of "natives", Shawn Atleo is at it again, demanding every sheet of the millions of records of residential schools be released.  To what end??  Gotta be about money, more people to sue, more publicity......it never stops.  Can't Atleo and his gang get on with it?  Can't they move forward for once instead of reaching back to see what money up for grabs might remain on the table?  I mean, who is still alive who actually attended residential schools?  Today it's mainly kids and grandkids dining out on inherited misery.

All this must be to take the spotlight off the fact that Harper has just handed them a couple of billion to improve education for "natives".  The PM has just turned the whole mess over to the provinces, which are responsible for education, telling the "natives" they must develop curricula that meets provincial standards.  Good luck with that.