Fwd: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

You got that right cousin Richard....maybe ILAT should be changed to 
'Family Page'...

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wahjeh
rolland nadjiwon
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On 24/06/2010 1:20 PM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
> 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
>
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> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Bernadette Santamaria 
> <bernisantamaria at gmail.com <mailto:bernisantamaria at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     All:
>     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?
>     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.
>     Does anyone have info on whether she is considered legitimate?
>     Thanks.
>     Bernadette A. SantaMaria
>
>
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: *Charlotte Rees* <Harrismaps at msn.com
>     <mailto:Harrismaps at msn.com>>
>     Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:29 PM
>     Subject: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010
>     To:
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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
>     <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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>     Holiday Inn
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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
>     <mailto:wengyingfang at gmail.com> if you have any questions.
>
>     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.
>
>     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
>     <mailto:Judy.Maxwell at gmail.com>.
>
>     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.
>
>     *Other News*
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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.”
>
>     *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.
>
>     Keep checking my website www.HarrisMaps.com
>     <http://www.harrismaps.com/> for further developments.
>
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