Before we proceed with today’s Letters to the Editor, it is important that we acknowledge that this city and state have been formed on stolen land. During the last Ice Age, about 13,000 years ago, Siberian Asians traversed the Bering land bridge with Alaska and settled in this hemisphere. This Clovis culture with its distinctive arrow and spear stone points was first to occupy the land we now call home.
Before European explorers, before modern-recognized tribal groups, before even subsequent Eurasian migrations, the Clovis culture had a presence on this continent. No other claim to this land predates the Clovis people’s. Any subsequent homesteading is a violation of Clovis rights and is merely an occupation on stolen land.
