Chapter 167: The Indians

After the five little wolves swept away the remaining rabbit meat, they let the little wolves leave for the rest of their lives. The two adult wolves knew that they could not be provoked for the rest of their lives, so they took the half-eaten wolf cubs, starved, and left in a gloomy manner to find another food.

There is a small dog vigil, and the rest of my life is very relieved. After a good night's sleep, I packed up my things and walked down the hill in the direction of the stream.

The mountains are steep and steep. Obviously, there are many places where no one visits all year round. Therefore, there is no road at all. The journey was extremely slow. A day passed, and even if Ryan walked for the rest of his life, he only walked about a dozen miles. But fortunately, there is no shortage of food and water, and all kinds of equipment are also complete. The little dog caught two rabbits and a grouse halfway through. Enough for two more barbecues for the rest of my life.

As a last resort, I had to stay in the mountains for another night for the rest of my life. A couple of wolves are here again. But this time it's not here to hunt, it's to sell cuteness. The two adult wolves remembered the stinky beating for the rest of their lives and never dared to move forward again. After all, the wolf is a beast that fights with bites and claws on weekdays, either catching prey or being caught as prey, and victory or defeat is simply life and death. How can there be a living experience of being beaten for dozens of minutes! The psychological shadow caused is simply too large to calculate......

It's a few little wolves, after selling cuteness with milky voices, they all have a round belly. The sum of the food is more than that of the little dog, which makes the little dog very dissatisfied.

After eating, the little wolves obviously didn't want to leave. If it weren't for the two adult wolves howling many times, these little wolves would definitely not have gone back to starve. It is no wonder that ancient humans were able to use plenty of food to domesticate wild wolves into dogs whose main skill was to sell cuteness. It's no wonder that there is a word called the little white-eyed wolf......

After another good night's sleep, the next day was noticeably better than the first. The rest of his life has left the heights of the Rocky Mountains. On this day, the road was almost entirely plain, but there was no vegetation. The eyes are yellow. Yu Sheng let go of his horsepower, identified a direction, and drove away on Ryan. The little dog and the sharma followed closely behind. In the early afternoon, Yu Sheng finally saw the crowd. There is a small town that appears in front of the rest of life. The rest of my life when I set foot in this town I realized that most of the residents were not white.

After asking carefully, I found out. In the past two days, he had reached the Indian reservation, the Wende River reservation in west-central Wyoming. Further south is the monumental Oregon Trail in American history.

This Oregon Trail isn't the western adventure game of later generations. At the beginning of the 19th century, U.S. President Jefferson had a brilliant vision to buy a large amount of land in the western United States from the French. The size of the United States has suddenly doubled! Subsequently, in the rapid development of the United States, the population of the eastern part of the United States increased dramatically. Some people could not find suitable land to cultivate or survive, so they began to migrate west.

In those days, there were no railways or roads. All people moved on foot, or by horse-drawn carriages. In 1843, thousands of people drove horse-drawn carriages through the Oregon Trail in droves. Since then, the Oregon Trail has become famous. Along with the California Trail to pan for gold and the Mormon Trail to Salt Lake City, it became the Oregon Trail for those seeking to farm.

Of course, immigrants seek more than just arable land. In the year 1848. After the discovery of gold near San Francisco, California, a large number of gold prospectors. Rush through this trail into San Francisco and the American West. According to later statistics, there were at least half a million people. It was not until the eighties of the nineteenth century that the Trans-American East-West Railroad was opened. The Oregon Trail is just beginning to fall abandon.

The Wende River Ridge and the Wende River Indian Reserve gradually became desolate.

However, although the population of this place is predominantly Indian, it has been assimilated for so many years. The majority of Indians have adopted the habits of the vast majority of Caucasians. Therefore, although he went to the Indian reservation for the rest of his life, he did not notice much difference from the outside world.

It's just a little dilapidated, that's all. Most Indians speak English. The Sioux languages, Lakota, and Dakota languages spoken by the Sioux people, a powerful tribe of Indians who originally occupied the Midwest of the United States, have long since declined. The only people who can talk about it are those who are old and still have memories of the previous era.

In the Wende River Indian Reservation, there were also hotels run by Indians to receive white people who passed through the area and had nowhere to stay. The yellow skin, black hair, and black eyes of the rest of their lives were rarely seen by these Indians. This look, which obviously bears a resemblance to them, makes these Indians feel a little inexplicably fond of the rest of their lives.

Therefore, after Yu Sheng stayed, the Indians in the Wende River Reservation not only gave Yu Sheng a map, but also prepared a dinner party for Yu Sheng. During the dinner, the elders of the reserve talked about their past experiences. The rest of my life only learned that most of the Indians in this reservation were Sioux people.

The Indians were not actually a people, or even the same race, and historians are not sure in later generations. When Columbus discovered the New World, he mistakenly believed that the continent he found was India, so he called the natives of this continent Indians. But by the time later generations discovered Columbus's mistake, the title was already widespread. So, in the European language of English, Indians are referred to as "West Indians" and Indians are referred to as "East Indians". The Chinese translation, on the other hand, literally translates "West Indian" as Indian.

In later generations, archaeologists and anthropologists searched the entire Americas, but did not find ape fossils and ancient ruins that represent human evolution. It is not like the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, where the relics of these ancient civilizations are widely distributed. It is constantly being discovered in later generations.

Therefore, in the archaeology of later generations, it can be basically assumed that the Americans were immigrants. However, the exact origin of these immigrants is disputed by historians. In summary, there are four more mainstream hypotheses.

The first hypothesis, the European immigration theory, holds that the ancestors of the Indians entered the Americas from continental Europe northward via Iceland and Greenland, or by crossing the Atlantic. However, this hypothesis is more difficult to establish. Crossing the Atlantic was largely a fantasy in antiquity.

The second hypothesis is the South Pacific island theory, which holds that the Indians were Asians who gradually migrated to the Americas through the islands of the South Pacific. Directly related to the Indians, it is believed that the Polynesians, who lived in the Pacific islands, entered the Americas through the islands of the South Pacific. This hypothesis also lacks empirical evidence. This hypothesis is only due to the Polynesians' occupation of the islands of the South Pacific and their great seafaring ability. However, I have to admit that this assumption does exist!

The third hypothesis is that of African immigrants, who believe that it is black people in Africa. Nubians, in particular, Malians, crossed the Atlantic to reach the Americas. This hypothesis is even funnier than that of European immigrants. Not to mention the fact that it was not feasible to cross the Atlantic on rafts in ancient times, but also that Africans themselves were very different from the Indians.

Most likely, it is the fourth hypothesis, the Asian migration theory. However, there are two main hypotheses in the Asian migration theory, one is the Mongol Bering Strait theory. One is that Yin people traveled east to the Americas.

The first Mongolian Bering Strait theory is that it is believed that since one end of the Bering Strait is Asia. At one end is the Americas, with an average width of only 65 kilometers and at its narrowest point only 35 kilometers, and in the middle there are two small islands of Kratmanov and Krusunstern, which are only 4,000 meters apart.

And the Bering Strait is very shallow, with an average depth of only forty-two meters. So, at the time of the last ice age of the Earth. When the sea level drops by 130 meters, the bottom of the Bering Strait is exposed. It became a land bridge. It is a natural gateway between Asia and North America. At that time, the race, who lived by hunting, followed the migratory animals through the land bridge in the Bering Strait and entered the Americas! After rising sea levels and the inability to return, they thrived in the Americas after a long period of time. Become an indigenous to the Americas.

The theory that the Yin people crossed the Americas eastward believes that after King Wu of Zhou defeated the army of the Yin Shang, a large number of Yin people crossed east to the Americas and became the natives of the Americas. And the emergence of the Olmec civilization in the Americas. It is related to the eastward crossing of the Yin people.

There is a lot of physical evidence for these two hypotheses, and the American expedition team has found stone tools in the Aleutian Islands that have only been excavated in Mongolia. In California, the United States, a 3,000-year-old stone anchor was unearthed. Through the comparison of rock samples, it was confirmed that the stone quality of this stone anchor should have originated near the Taiwan Strait of China.

In addition, in the Americas, a large number of place names and symbols related to Mongolian and Yin Shang oracle bone inscriptions have also been found. Basically, it can be concluded that the hypothesis is valid. CHINESE SCHOLARS EVEN BELIEVE THAT THE NATIVE AMERICAN GREETING "YINDIAN" THAT COLUMBUS ENCOUNTERED IS ACTUALLY THE CHINESE Chinese HOMONYM "YINDIAN".

In fact, from the validity of both hypotheses, it can be seen that the indigenous people of the Americas did not move in all at once, but in batches many times. As a result, different tribes were formed. Moreover, it can be seen that civilizational monism is simply nonsense. Any civilization is a multi-faceted integration and has been injected with fresh blood many times. in order to be strong and prosperous. The Chinese totem dragon incorporates at least a few different totemic features. In other words, at least several different tribes came together to give rise to the descendants of Yan and Huang, the Chinese civilization.

As for the fallacy that some people in the archaeological community in later generations believe that the Chinese originated in Egypt or from ancient Babylon, it is just a shame in the face of cultural pluralism.

However, the old Indians on these reservations are not just here to tell their ancestors and history for the rest of their lives. The reservation, although there is only one telephone to this day, is often broken. However, there are still radios and paths to communicate with the outside world, and they are not completely closed. Although the telephone line in the village broke down again when Yu Sheng arrived at the reservation, there were other channels to confirm Yu Sheng's identity.

A little Indian of seven or eight years old came out with a newspaper. It actually published a feature report on winning the Academy Award for the rest of his life, and it was accompanied by a large photo. The face of the rest of his life was clear in the light.

So, two hours after the rest of his life arrived on the reservation, the Indians on the reservation knew that a big man had come to the reservation. These old Indians were so hospitable for the rest of their lives, in addition to following the ancient traditions of the Indians, they also hoped that the rest of their lives would help the Indians on the reservation improve their living conditions.

According to the rest of my life, it was not until 1988 that the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Gaming Act, requiring states not to prevent Indians from engaging in gambling activities on reservations that are not prohibited by state legislation. The Indians in the United States had a regular and lucrative income. These gambling revenues were in turn invested in schooling, health care, and other public facilities, and the living conditions of the Indians improved.

Until then, the Indians will not be in a good situation. After Columbus discovered America, the Indians, who were in the embryonic state of civilization, were destroyed. In the Americas, about 13 million Indians were killed on Spanish soil, about 10 million Indians were killed in Brazil, and another million Indians were killed in the westward expansion of the United States.

In the supposedly civilized United States, the situation of the Indians is even more miserable. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the United States, which was still ruled by the British, carried out a policy of genocide against the Indians. The new immigrants from Europe raised the rewards for the massacre of the Indians. In 1703, the Legislative Council decided that a bounty of forty pounds should be given for every Indian skull peeled and for each red man captured. By 1720, the bounty had been raised to one hundred pounds per skull......

By 1783, the Americans had gained independence. But the massacres of the Indians did not stop. In 1830, the Americans passed the Indian Removal Act, which required all Native Americans in the east to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River. In fact, a policy of apartheid was pursued. Because of this law, the number of Indians was again drastically reduced after the massacre.

By about 1900, there were only 300,000 Indians left. The tribes that were originally strictly divided disappeared in large numbers. There are only a handful of people left in each tribe. The Indians have completely become a minority from the indigenous people who originally occupied the entire American continent and had a population of tens of millions......

It was not until 1924 that the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring that anyone born in the United States is a U.S. citizen. It was the Indians who survived in the United States that they had the qualifications and rights to become U.S. citizens. (To be continued.) )