I vaguely remember it being possibly near Newfoundland and the inhabitants that settled it were Cajuns from a ship wreck back in the 17 or 18 hundreds.  The island is as I remember largely populated by the descendants of the original settlers and their language is unique to them.  This may not be correct because... what would Cajuns be doing way up there?
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The Acadians (Cajun) settled along the north shore of the Acadia Peninsula, now Nova Scotia, along the Bay of Fundy.  The main purpose of the settlement was to provide fur trade for France.  \n\nA distinct Acadian culture gradually evolved. The Acadians fished and farmed, and claimed valuable farmlands from the bay by building dykes. A sense of community life and independence grew as they worked together to survive. By 1750, the population of Acadia had exceeded 10,000. \n\nAcadian culture is well and alive in Nova Scotia. In the summer, visitors can attend many Acadian festivals, as there are several of them across the province from May to August.
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I think you are talking about the re burials?\n\nhttp://starbulletin.com/2005/12/27/news/story02.html
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I don't know who said it, but it sounds like they are saying that the Irish couldn't cross the waters to get to Scottland. That Scottish were Irish & just moved to establish a new country. There are alot of surnames that are both Irish & Scottish. That would explain that.
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I'm no expert, but someone might have slaughtered a whale on you land and meant to write "marine whale oil". Watch your step. I don't know if you use slabs or what in your area, but it is safe to dig I would think. Let us know if there be whales there!
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The bad thing about this, really there are still alot of innocent people that are displaced, looking for jobs (in which our state doesn't have because the economy and crime is so high), and have no permanent place to call home. I have a family that lives down the street that lost everything because they lived in St. Bernard parish, and can't find the same paying job in our parish....so they are still living in a pop-up camper. \nIt was disgusting that these people were doing all these things with the FEMA card (some even bought wide screen TVs while they were in the Cajun Dome for a shelter!) because of this abuse there are still hard working people out there that don't deserve to live the way they have to.
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Possibly the Clovis as you read on......\nStone-age people lived in the lands north of the Arctic Circle before the peak of the last Ice Age - much earlier than had been thought, suggests new findings.\n\nThe discovery of the site in eastern Siberia also hints that people might have moved from the Old World into the Americas at a much earlier date than believed.\n\nThe site along the Yanu River, carbon-dated as 30,000 years old, is twice the age of the oldest previously known Arctic settlement, report Vladimir Pitulko of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and colleagues.\n\nThe area is about 2000 kilometres from the Bering Strait. This is important as archaeologists have long suspected that some of the earliest Americans may have crossed the Bering land bridge from northeastern Asia. However, scientists had little evidence of Arctic settlements in Asia older than 14,000 years - the age of the earliest Alaskan sites. The age of the Yanu River site shows that people learned to live in the Arctic much earlier, and might have reached Alaska earlier than has been recognised.\n\n"Pitulko's find is exciting because it shows that people were living in an ecosystem that stretched continuously between Asia and North America. If they had wandered a little further eastward...bingo - they could have been the first Americans," Daniel Mann of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks told New Scientist.\n\nReindeer bones\nRussian geologist Mikhail Dashtzeren found a rhino-horn foreshaft of a spear along the river in 1993. A foreshaft is the detachable piece between the main part of a spear and its point. Dashtzeren guided archaeologists to the site in 2001. Pitulko's team found 383 stone artefacts in the area, as well as many bones from ice-age Siberian animals including mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhino and bison.\n\nThe ancient site would have been an open meadow in the river's flood plain when occupied. It is unclear if people lived in the area all year, or only came north in summer to hunt. The abundance of reindeer bones indicates they were the most common food.\n\nThe flaked stone tools resemble those from more southerly sites at the time. However, the rhino-horn foreshaft, and two similar ones of mammoth ivory, resemble tools used by the Clovis people who spread over North America about 12,000 years ago and are believed to be among the continent's first human settlers.\n\nBut archaeologists are wary about linking the two. "It's a fabulous site," David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, told New Scientist. The dates look solid, and "it's tells us that people were in the far north a whole lot earlier than we ever thought."\n\nBut he cautions the new settlement and those of the Clovis are separated by 16,000 years and thousands of kilometres.\n\nJournal reference: Science (vol 303, p 52)
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Who lives like they used to?  How many grandmothers still go to a creek to fetch the day's water here in America?\n\nSome Native Americans live on reservations and many don't; others have chosen varying degrees of assimilation. \n\nIt's unlikely that any entire group speaks with one voice,  except that they may be unified in wanting non-indigenous people to leave the Americas.  Then perhaps the first of them that arrived across the land bridge will want the second group that arrived that way to leave, too.\n\nProbably there is enough reservation land to accommodate those who would like to live like they used to; they could choose environmental policies to foster herds of bison, and streams full of fish and assume the ways of their ancestors.\n\nI am 1/8 Indian, my children are 1/4.  We only found out after the deaths of our parents on both sides. Obviously, assimilation took place many years ago, and while we might like to experience some of what our ancestors did to live, it would not be forever.
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dumbass....first of all it aint INDIAN its first nations or native people, tallahasse is not "indian" either, its French, it was named when the French, British and the Dutch were settled in north america, but miami is a native land, dammm i live in Canada, and i can see why news is reportin a decrease in intelligence south of the border
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Of the 15 or so little Overseas Territories still clinging for dear life to the UK, BIOT should be the largest at around quarter of a million people - but the population was exported wholesale to Mauritius and other places; I suppose they got in the way. There was a court case in London which I think gave them the right of return, but not sure if any have gone yet.
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Hi.  This is a very interesting question and one that is close to home for me. I am a home educator and when I first began home schooling my children, like the year before, I brushed up on history.  So many things were difficult to tell my children, namely, the beginning when so many lives were lost during the Europeans taking over the land. I think what we walked away with year after year (now 10 years of teaching this topic) is that the native americans at first were quite puzzled as to why anyone would want to fight over this land, as they did not even view it as their own. The land didn't belong to them any more than the white man. If I am correct, they believe the land was there by \nGod(s) and we are to replenish it and respect it. White believed what ever they could take by force, should be theirs. Now I do not set around blaming Europeans any more than I hold present Native Americans responsible for the killings that some of tribes attributed to. But I do believe that lack of compassion is taught in our school books, when introducing America to our children. There are many Christian history books that I have bought and read and taught from however, that do teach this compassion to the original people, the Native Americans.  Interesing also is that some folks do not believe "native Americans" were the native people, but that vikings such as Leif Ericson were the first in North America.  Or maybe the Asians, who came across the Bering St. before the ocean covered it...and that is where native americans come from?  Sorry to be so lengthy. I just love history of America and this topic is near my heart.  God bless!
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I'm not from Ireland but I have a rich breed of Irish blood in my tribal veins. Grandparents of both sides were born there and my maternal grandmother was born there. She was booked on the "TITANIC" to come over to Canada but traded in her ticket for some obscure French liner because her boyfriend was a steward on that ship! Often wondered about that! You know? the what if? question!?\n It is a wonderful land and when you go there do enjoy yourself. If you ever get to the blarney stone? Don't kiss it!
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Politically correct .....Hmmmmm\n\nI agree that they should be called by whatever they call themselves, the settlers took their land (eventually) let us not take their birthright. We are Americans because we live in America. If the earliest settlers called the land Downtown we would be downtowners.. Since we are new in this land, having left our "homeland" ....let me simplify this..\n\nAccepted - this is America, good ole USA (right or wrong)\n\n Say an Englander moves here for permanant living. He legally becomes a citizen. He is not an English American, he is American. A person from Asia moves here and legally becomes a citizen, they are now American, not Asian American. If I was to leave USA and move to another country and become a citizen, say Canada. I would then be Canadian, not American Canadian.\nAnd as such should learn that country's ways, language and way of living. \nIf people did away with this horth thit of attaching another country to their name and live as one in the country that is theirs, all would be better...VOTE FOR ME IN 2008 (Just Kidding)
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The Carribean is an archipelago of many islands, some big and some small. Not all of which are inhabited. Off the top of my head I cannot remember the names of any which arn't inhabited, but basically they would just be too small to be inhabited.\n\nSome of the islands would just be sand and a few palm trees, nothing substantial enough to build or live off.
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You've kind of answered your own question...it's actually not the aborigines they were referring to, but to the alaskans....damn cold there!
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actually I found out a lot\n\ncome to find out I was both a Sioux and a Cherokee.  I was also a Mayan. (Thought that was interesting, but explained my desire to go to Central America)\n\nAlso, I lived in France. My best friends mother one time called me some name and I responded without even knowing she didnt say my real name.  She looked into it (she was a psychic) and told me that she was my mother and thats why we met this time around.\n\nUm..oh yea, I was a pirate I was told.  Guess that explains my love for boats and the ocean.\n\nPretty cool...if you believe in this stuff.  I do and I was very interested and excited.\n\nNow, if you really want to see what you believe in, I was also told that I once lived at Atlantis and I was a leader, however because I wasnt very patient and got angry quickly, I wasnt a leader for long.  Eh well.
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It was there before it was an island.
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I think you answerd your own question. It was probably past energy of people who may have lived there. I use to experience that when I was younger.