Fwd: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010

[David Lewis]

Its would be difficult to assume that China has existed for 12000 years or more. There may be relations genealogically but i have never heard of linguistic relations. But then I am not a linguist. The diaspora from that area now known as China is worldwide, so that they could claim the same relationship with Europe. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology on behalf of Bernadette Santamaria
Sent: Thu 6/24/2010 9:12 AM
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Subject: [ILAT] Fwd: Newsletter from Charlotte Harris Rees - June 2010
 
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


 
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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

 

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.

http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20100622/COLUMNISTS/100629976/1079&ParentProfile=1067 <http://www.skyhidailynews.com/article/20100622/COLUMNISTS/100629976/1079&ParentProfile=1067>  

 

 

My upcoming speeches in Asia are:

 

July 5 - Zheng He Symposium 

              Holiday Inn

              Melaka, Malaysia

 

July 9    National Library of China

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

 

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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