Stilly River Sage(or anyone): I'm on the Old World side of the Atlantic, and not fully up on the nuances of American anthropology and politics. Why do some Native Americans find it threatening that someone might want to research whether early immigrants to America came from the east as well as the west? To me, this topic just seems very interesting, and not loaded with any modern ploitical implications. How is it perceived in America? Nothing so far in this threaade really explains this to me.