Hi Dan, Just catching up on some e-mails after a trip to Arizona. My husband is Cherokee but I am E Delaware. I agree with your migration theory to a point. Many scientists think people migrated to the Americas across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago from Asia rather than Europe. The physical characteristics are more Asian than European. (However, they believe if you go back far enough everyone had the same mother!) The Clovis were thought to be the ancestors of most Native Americans before they branched off into more localized groups or tribes. This is now being contested. My personal opinion is the Clovis culture either came in? a secondary migration across the land bridge or were a culture descended from earlier immigrants.?I believe people have been in the Americas much longer than the majority of scientists have been willing to conjecture. There have been several "ice ages" and the land bridge would most likely have been there at those earlier?times as well. I suspect people have been in the Americas more like 30 or 40 thousand years rather than the 11 or 12 of the Clovis. Personally, I think there were successive migrations. I think those that crossed the land bridge?(and their descendants) followed a path down the West coast?until they were past the ice and then spread gradually across the continent going East as well as South (not S to South America and back up the east coast). I believe there were also some?arrivals across the oceans to both North and South America. There is too much evidence arising now that doesn't match previous theories.?? Robbie ~Original Message~ For those who hate the Euro, think about a time line. Natives came from Euro and those who stayed there and then came later were just advanced Euro of the same people? True or false? My theory is the people walked along the coasts, as they found the way here was not intentional, they just followed the coast as in those days the lands were connected and they came along, followed through the glaciers, S, continued, all the way to S tip of SA and back up the other side and around TX, to FL and up the E coast. ( possible ) ?maybe, maybe not. Were the Cherokee here before the Clovis? Not likely. Theory - for conversations. With ut it there is nothing to talk about. Who was here first - possibly the Euro?