Jill Weber wrote:
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> The Navajo and Apache, both of Athabascan origin didn't arrive in the
> southwest until around the same time as the euros, approx.  ca.16-17th cent.
> c.e. And immediately began wreaking just as much havoc.

"Just as much"? -- that's a bit extravagant. All invaders wreak havoc.
But europeans from the 16th to and including the present (counting u.s.
as "european") have been a bit extraordinary in their destructiveness,
by any standards.

Carrol


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