Immigration without assimilation is a sure ticket for disaster

. . . And one could not think of a more idiotic thing for protesters to do than wave Mexican flags in a mass demonstration against abusive practices by U. S. Immigration and Customs Service officers.

It makes the rest of us wonder who is dumb and who is dumber . . . immigrant protestors, who proudly announce that their first loyalty is to the nation that they or their parents fled from . . . or the fools here in the United States, who are walking around right now with frozen smiles on their faces, because they think that they are the only ones, who know about their plans to destroy our Constitutional Democracy.

Let it be understood that I love the rich cultural heritages of Mexico, Central America and South America. I have never forgotten the romantic love that shared long ago with Alicia in Mexico City, Ana in Campeche and Alejandra in Tepoztlán. Their photos adorn the walls of my cottage and help me endure the hostile*, culturally sterile, environment of northern Georgia today. A recent grant from Ana’s foundation helped buy the state-of-art architectural rendering software that I now use. Nevertheless, when one moves to the USA, their national origin merely becomes part of this ancient melting pot. Their national identity is the United States of America.

* In 2024, I tried to open up communications with a Latin American cultural organization about my research into the 17th century Spanish colonists here and the much earlier arrival of Indigenous peoples from Meso-and-South America. The organization represents the 150,000+ Latin Americans in Northeast Georgia. Most of them have indigenous ancestry. A local sheriff’s office had been monitoring my telephone and internet for 6 1/2 years. A deputy telephoned the director to tell her that I was a Latin American & woman-hating, serial killer and rapist, who they were trying to put behind bars permanently. Unfortunately, I learned that in Georgia, a law enforcement officer cannot be prosecuted or sued for telling lies.

The South America and Caribbean Basin Series

by Richard L. Thornton, Architect & City Planner

The Americas have ALWAYS been an ethnic melting pot!

Being involved in a multi-disciplinary, international study over the past six months has been a growth experience for me. Global genetics, history and linguistic research have created a remarkably different understanding of the peopling of the Americas and Pacific Basin. All of humanity consists of varying recipes for genetic Brunswick stew. There is no such thing in the Americas as a pure Native American race . . . or even a pure ethnic group within that race.

For example, there are isolated tribes in the heart of the Amazon, who carry some Bronze Age Greek DNA test markers, which arrived a long time before Columbus. I carry a significant number of Proto-Sami genes that were found in 8,000-year-old bodies at the bottom of Windover Pond, Florida. Many Eastern tribes carry some Pre-Columbian Yamnaya genes from the Southern Steppes of Eurasia.

Fishing camp on the Georgia coast

Anthropological orthodoxy is really propaganda

Of all the things I learned in the past year, perhaps the most surprising is how academicians have been concealing facts about the real history of indigenous Americans. Much of the today’s orthodoxies were created in 1947 at a conference held on the campus of Harvard University, which then was one of the few places in North America that offered a PhD in Anthropology. Other major anthropological programs were at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Chicago and California. Radiocarbon dating was invented the same year, but not used very much till the late 1950s.

At the conference, the Pre-Columbian Southeast was conceived as a cultural backwater just as it was viewed in 1947. All cultural advancements were viewed as being carried by enlightened Indians from the North and West to the Backward South.

Thus, for the next 80 years, students were taught that the first Native Americans were the Clovis People, who crossed the Bering Land Bridge then concentrated in the Southwest then spread thinly across the rest of the Americas. Inconvenient facts were left out of the textbooks.

The oldest Clovis Points are near Savannah. The greatest concentration of Clovis points is in the Southeast, in particular, central Tennessee. No Clovis points have been found in either Alaska or Siberia. No Native American DNA has been found in Siberia. Thus, the real evidence is that the originators of Clovis points came by sea to the mouth of the Savannah River.

What geneticists label as AmerIndian DNA is a mixture of four ethnic groups that occurred in the Americas. There are no DNA test markers for the Southeastern United States, where most of the “Native Americans” lived, north of Mexico.

Today, it is rare to find a federally-recognized Native American with more than 38% AmerIndian DNA. The people, who called themselves Native American today are radically different, genetically, that the people first contacted by European explorers in the 1500s.

What really surprised me, though, was when my client asked me to produce maps showing the concentrations of certain Old World genes in Pre-Columbian bodies. The more precise techniques of genetic research laboratories can tell us for certain that peoples from all over the planet migrated to the Americas before the voyages of Columbus. They passed on “minority” genes that are ignored by consumer-oriented labs.

The maps of the United States showing modern federally-recognized tribes permanently occupying large chunks of real estate are caca de toro. Most of these tribes did not exist until the 1700s. Especially in the Southeast many distinct ethnic groups were dispersed across the landscape.

Village on Ossabaw Island, Georgia – with tabby stucco houses

Along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, almost every island and nearby section of mainland contained a different group of immigrants . . . many from homelands far away. Cumberland Island was Middle Arawak from the Orinoco River Basin. Jekyll Island was a major ceremonial center for the Tainos. St. Simons Island was occupied by Southern Arawaks from northern Peru, who specialized in grown Yaupon Holly.

The southern side of the Altamaha Delta was Panoan from eastern Peru. Much of the Lower Altamaha River was controlled by growers of medicinal herbs, who had an Anglisk (Ancient English) name [yes, really!]. The northern side of the delta was occupied by a branch of the Creek Indians, whose ancestors lived at Etowah Mounds.

St. Catherines Island was occupied by Potano Mayas from the coast of Campeche. Ossabaw Island is where Panoans from eastern Peru grew Yaupon Holly bigtime. Tybee Island was occupied by Itza Maya salt traders. Savannah was founded by people from southern Veracruz, but much of the lower Savannah River Basin was occupied by Austronesian peoples. Savannah is the Anglicization of two Samoan words.

These diverse peoples generally got along just fine. There was no need for timber palisades around their villages. Their cultures blended over the centuries. Over time they began making almost identical pottery styles that were similar to those made by the Creek tribes in the Piedmont and Mountains. For this reason, archaeologists assumed that they were all Creeks. They weren’t. They were immigrants from many places, who assimilated enough to get along well, but also kept their distinct ways of making a living.

You get the gist!