Fwd: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010

[Richard Zane Smith]

kinda reminds me again that the common charts I've seen
 ALWAYS assumes a "one way road" with a big arrow
ALWAYS pointing east from Asia across the Bering Sea.
As if people groups couldn't possibly have traveled both ways.

Navajos meeting  "their distant Chinese relatives..."
hmmm...I guess one could make a genetic argument
that  anybody I visit is a distant relative.
I'll have to try that next time I'm traveling and
see a nice home near a beach.... "COUSIN !"

hey, why not?
-Richard




On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Bernadette Santamaria <
bernisantamaria at gmail.com> wrote:

> All:
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> I've been reviewing info on Ms. Rees because as a researcher her claims
> that U.S. Indigenous people's "forefathers" are the Chinese (or Asians?)
> with her speeches on ancient world maps & that Chinese were first to
> "discover" this continent.  Are there any language or linguistic researchers
> who agree with her views?
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> I'm concerned at the stories such as this where a Navajo, on a trip to
> China, was greeted by "...distant Chinese relatives there.."  whether Native
> people are once again pawns in colonialist/paternalistic attitudes about our
> origins still discounting our own creation beliefs.
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> Does anyone have info on whether she is considered legitimate?
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> Thanks.
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> Bernadette A. SantaMaria
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> From: Charlotte Rees <Harrismaps at msn.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:29 PM
> Subject: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010
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>  *Newsletter for Charlotte Harris Rees – June 2010*
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> *See this link for a 6/23/2010 article *by nationally syndicated columnist
> William Hamilton that favorably mentions *The Asiatic Fathers of America *and
> *Secret Maps of the Ancient World *and  Gavin Menzies *1421.*
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> http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20100622/COLUMNISTS/100629976/1079&ParentProfile=1067
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> *My upcoming speeches in Asia are:*
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> *July 5 *– Zheng He Symposium
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>               Melaka, Malaysia
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> *July 9*    National Library of China
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> Exhibition Hall of Rare Collections
> Beijing, China
> Contact Ms Weng Yingfang at wengyingfang at gmail.com if you have any
> questions.
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> I have been exchanging e-mails with a columnist from the *China Daily News
> **,* an English language paper in Beijing, and he plans to run an article
> before the July 9 speech.
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> Currently I am making plans for* speeches in Southern California* Sept. 10
> – 14, 2010 *and in Vancouver*, BC. area September 16 – 21, 2010. If your
> group is interested in having me speak, please contact Judy Lam Maxwell at
> Judy.Maxwell at gmail.com.
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> Judy is helping to arrange my schedule. She is a historian and an
> international speaker, is multi-talented, and is a strong supporter of my
> research. In a later newsletter we will publish the dates and times of
> speeches in those locations.
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> The *Navajo Indian* that I mentioned in an earlier newsletter made his
> trip to China in May and was greeted by distant Chinese relatives there.
> (See the attached photos). According to Walter Loo from U.S. Chinese Art
> Museum in Oakland, CA who accompanied the Navajo: “Many newspapers came and
> I was interviewed by CCTV and Beijing TV. The Deputy Head of Ministry of
> Overseas Chinese attended and expressed their interest in helping their new
> 2.5 million overseas Chinese Indians in North America. They are also very
> well aware of Chinese Indians in Central and South America that number about
> 10 million.”
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> *TV Documentaries* - Both the Discovery and History Channels have recently
> run pieces stating that Columbus was not the first to discover America.  On
> the Discovery Channel piece Bob Meistrell mentioned that at least one of the
> stone anchors  found off the coast  of California dated to around 2000
> B.C. That date rings a bell with me! I am hoping to meet up with Bob when I
> go to California in September.
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> Keep checking my website www.HarrisMaps.com <http://www.harrismaps.com/>for further developments.
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