It ONow for Law

Ever since Lucy and her band of our Homo Sapien ancestors left Africa some 70,000 years ago, our species has been migrating. From our savanna homeland, we have spread over all the globe so that almost each nook and cranny of our planet has been populated with our species. There are some who even talk of colonizing Mars. While we’re known as a tool-making primate, we should also be acknowledged as confirmed travelers.

There are various reasons for our wanderlust. Whether we’re enticed to enhance our lives, evicted by harsh circumstances or simply plain curious, we do get around. Not that this fixed migrating has necessarily been easy. We have needed to alter to new climates, grasp the earth to provide food or, if the land was already occupied, confront its occupants. While this commingling of newcomers and strangers may be peaceable and mutually useful, it steadily ends in conflicts. All too often, warfare is the means by which one group conquers another people’s land and lords over the vanquished.

To bring this case to our personal nation, weren’t even the first Europeans who settled right here immigrants who did not converse the local languages and certainly did not cross inspection by the local inhabitants. The tens of millions of people misnamed Indians had been right here for an estimated 15 to 25,000 years earlier than they had been “found” by the Europeans. These peoples replayed a theme familiar to our species: the newcomers believing the land and folks were for his or her taking whereas the indigenous, even when curious and initially friendly, shortly resented the intruders. Not that there weren’t intervals–no matter how temporary–of friendship and mutual accommodation. Would the Pilgrims have survived if it weren’t for assistance from the native tribe?