Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "White People are Indigenous In Most of North America- Here is Why" video.

@prometheanevent It's interesting the way in the US people either use Apollo as a why to ask "if we could put a man on the Moon why can't we (insert cause here). Yet minutes later expound on how it was all a complete waste of money. Never mind the money was spent infrastructure, engineering research, materials research etc. Plus at the same time the crew of Apollo 11 was headed home there were already people claiming it was all done in a movie studio. In terms what the United States will be remembered for 1,000 or 2,000 years from now I think it will be two things. The Constitution and how we butchered it for appealing to the masses. And Apollo. Also regarding returning to the Moon people say we've already been there we know all about it. That's like saying six cars stopped at Rest Areas in the American Southwest so we know all about it.
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In the era between the Norse abandonment of Vinland* and Columbus's 1st voyage the complete absence of Europeans is somewhat of an open question. The Norse** settlers on Greenland certainly would have been crossing the Davis Strait to Labrador for timber. By the 1480s if not earlier fishing fleets from Bristol and probably the Basque region of Spain were fishing on the Grand Banks. That they may have had temporary encampments, bases whatever on Nova Scotia is likely. It is also likely that the odd European or North African vessel wound up in the Caribean or Atlantic seaboard due to weather. If they got home that's another story. Concerning indeginous permanent settlements on the Atlantic Seaboard all of the early Pilgrim or Puritain settlements were on the sites of former Native settlements that had been essentially wiped out due to one epidemic or another. By the 1600s the natives had over a century of dealing with Europeans and while they were willing to trade the preferred to keep them at arms length. As a side note one early explorer (Vespucci iirc) was exploring around present day Rhode Island he had Native guests aboard his ship. Some of whom were wearing Venitian glass and one had a broken Vinetian sword. Maybe from a lost ship or explorers who never got home. Plus by the 1600s some of the ships trading along the Atlantic Coast were crewed entirely by natives. * by Vinland I mean in the general sense of any settlements in North America. I doubt the the found on the Northern tip of Newfoundland was the only one. ** Norse and not Viking. The term Viking is related more to an activity than a specific people.
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