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Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: 17 Jan 2006 14:42:55 -0800
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In fact, Inuit people have traveled back and forth across the Bering
Strait from time immemorial. When the Cold War cut off that connection,
the Inuits called it the "Ice Curtain" (I suppose the USSR and the USA
thought the Inuit were hiding bombs in their umiaks). There were great
celebrations that spanned the Asian, American-Canadian & Greenland
Arctic regions after the Ice Curtain came down. Families that had been
split apart, some "Asian" and some "Alaskan", reunited for the first
time in decades. "Inuit" trumped "US" or "Russia" as far as identity
went. - Bronwen

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