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From: (Floyd L. Davidson)
Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:14:16 -0900
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wrote:
>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

Ahem... there are no Inuit people in Eastern Siberia.

All of the Eskimos there are Yupik.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>;
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

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