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Show Did Americans People Asia? p Few men know the American Indian better than L. O. Armstrong, chief of the Canadian Pacific railway colonization coloniza-tion department, whose work takes him into the out-of-the-way places of the Dominion. Mr. Armstrong strongly holds the theory that the Asiatic peoples peo-ples on'ginally migrated; that they were, in fact, descendants of the tribes now known as American Indians. He has illustrated this claim by dressing Japanese in Indian costumes and Indians In-dians in Japanese costumes, and then challenging people to distinguish, between be-tween the two. He points to tfce" announcement an-nouncement that M. K. Jesujf, president presi-dent of the American Museum of Natural Nat-ural History, is about to publish the results of elaborate investigations into the question as to whether Amerie peopled the world. The investigations conducted for seven years by prominent prom-inent ethnologists of America and Russia Rus-sia are said to show conclusively that the Asiatic -peoples came originally from this continent, and that the primitive prim-itive culture of America was transplanted trans-planted into Asia and then to Europe, to become the civilization of great historic his-toric peoples. "I have a great many curious evl-i evl-i dences of this in the notes that I have collected from time to time," said Mr. Armstrong. "I promulgated the idea in the play of 'Hiawatha,' which I - ' dramatized and staged. That play ts intended to depict Indian life before the arrival of the white man. The theory first occurred to me through the strik-inr strik-inr physical resemblance between the Ojibway Indians and the Japanese, and also by the fact that the Ojibway3 have the same totem as the Japanese, which is a crane standing on a turtle. There are many other proofs. For in- stance, in neither the Ojibway nor the Japanese language are there any 'swear' "words. The sociaJ position of the woman in both is the same. She has little voice in the management of domestic matters, but is a worker." |