Fwd: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010

[scott delancey]

Sounds like this is some fuzzy aftermath of Gavin Menzies' story about Chinese settling in Mexico and Peru a couple generations before Columbus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies).
Scholars pretty much consider it nonsense (http://www.1421exposed.com/).   There is actually some evidence for trans-Pacific contact prior to the European invasion -- I understand that there is
evidence for chickens in Mexico before Columbus, and chickens are definitely originally from Asia.  But no linguistic evidence for anything of the kind, as far as I know.

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Scott DeLancey
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon 1290
Eugene, OR 97403-1290, USA
541-346-3901

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:12:23 -0700, Bernadette Santamaria <bernisantamaria at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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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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> July 5  – Zheng He Symposium  
 
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> July 9      National Library of China 
 
> Exhibition Hall of Rare Collections 
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 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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