Book dispels Bering Strait migration theory for Native Americans

Released on = September 11, 2005, 1:07 pm

Press Release Author = Corina Roberts/Lulu.com

Industry = Environment

Press Release Summary = Author to speak at symposium on value of keeping traditional ways alive through "telling our own stories"

Press Release Body = For Immediate Release
September 10, 2005 – November 12, 2005

Local Writer to Share Novel at University Symposium

Poet, writer, photographer and activist Corina Roberts has been invited to the Sixth Annual Native American Writers Symposium at the Southeastern Oklahoma University, in Durant, Oklahoma, on November 10 through 12, 2005. This year’s symposium theme is
Native American Women in the Arts, Education and Leadership.

Roberts will present a paper titled “Telling Our Own Stories” and share from her recently completed novel, “The Wisdom Walkers”. Roberts, of mixed European and American Indian ancestry, is also the founder of Redbird, a non profit Native American and environmental organization formed in Simi Valley, California in 1994.

“The Wisdom Walkers” is a fictional story about two women horse traders who fulfill a destiny left to them by aging parents; a destiny that includes traveling across continents and oceans to meet one another for the first time. It is not that this journey has fallen into the hands of women that is unusual, however. It is that the
journey takes place 74,000 years ago, long before popular archeology would have natives on the North American continent, and well before the currently accepted time frame for ocean-going ships.

According to Roberts, the story isn’t far-fetched. Another incident in real life occurred 74,000 years ago. A massive volcano named Toba erupted in the region of Indonesia. This singular event nearly exterminated the human race, changed the earth’s climate, and destroyed whole civilizations as well as the fragile evidence
of their existence. We know very little about the times before Toba.

“The Wisdom Walkers” explores another controversial matter in evolution; horses. Horses disappeared from the Americas in the last eight to eleven thousand years, not long ago in geological terms. No one knows exactly why they vanished, but recent findings have revealed that they evolved to a great degree on this continent,
reaching the height of the modern Arabian horse, with coarser features much like the Przwalski Horse of Mongolia.

Many Native American peoples do not believe they descended from Mongolians who walked across a temporary land bridge. Their own creation stories often point to an origin in the western hemisphere. The Hopi creation story includes not one, but four “worlds” – four times that the Earth was destroyed, or completely altered and
rendered uninhabitable. During this time the people lived underground. According to the Hopi, we are now living in the fourth world.

“The Wisdom Walkers” is available online at www.lulu.com/corinaroberts . To learn more about Redbird, “The Wisdom Walkers” or other works by Roberts:

Corina Roberts, Founder
Redbird, P.O. Box 702, Simi Valley, CA 93062 (805) 217-0364
www.RedbirdsVision.org email: redbirds_vision@hotmail.com

Web Site = http://www.RedbirdsVision.org

Contact Details = Redbird
P.O. Box 702
Simi Valley, CA 93062
(805) 217-0364
email: redbirds_vision@hotmail.com