Who Were the Original Indigenous Natives of the World and What Happened to Them?

By W. D. Palmer

Have you ever wondered who were the original people, families, tribes, natives of the world? When did they arrive on the seven continents and what contributions did they make for future people that would inhabit these areas? This book is dedicated to those original people who we may never come to know, understand, or fully appreciate the human struggle that they went through to survive and lay the foundation for succeeding generations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728366906

W. D. Palmer

Walter. D. Palmer is the founder and director of the W.D. Palmer Foundation (est. 1955), a repository of information-gathering on racism in health, education, employment, housing, courts, prisons, higher education, military, government, politics, law, banking, insurance, and more. He is also the founder of the Black People’s University of Philadelphia (1955) Freedom School, which was the grassroots organizing and training center for grassroots community and political leadership both in Philadelphia and nationally. These organizations were run as nonprofit unincorporated associations from 1955 until 1980, when the W.D. Palmer Foundation received its 501(c)(3) federal tax exemption status. W.D. Palmer has also been a professor, teaching American Racism at the University of Pennsylvania since the 1960s and today he is a member of the President’s Commission on 1619, the 400-year anniversary of African slavery in America. Professor Palmer has been a social activist leading the fight against racial injustice for over 70 years in Philadelphia and around the nation. In 2018, Philadelphia honored him for the organizing work he did to reform the Philadelphia school system in 1967.

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WHO WERE THE

Original Indigenous Natives

of the

WORLD

and

What Happened to Them?

W.D.PALMER

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Published by AuthorHouse 12/30/2020

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CONTENTS

Walter D. Palmer Leadership School

Preface

Dedication

A Brief History

Africa

The Sahara

The Sahel

The Ethiopian Highlands

The Savanna

The Swahili Coast

The African Rainforest

The African Great Lakes

South Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Western Asia

Central Asia

East Asia

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Middle East

The Eastern Mediterranean Mountains

The Anatolian Plateau

The Zagros Mountains

India

Himalayas (North)

Hindu Kush

Arakanese

Australia

Eastern Highlands

Central Lowlands

Western Plateau

Polynesia

Polynesia

Melanesia

Micronesia

Europe

Eastern Europe

Southern Europe

Western Europe

Northern Europe

North America

Coastal Plains

Coastal Range

Appalachian Mountains

Great Plains

Basin and Range

Canadian Shield and Interior Lowlands

South America

Mountains and Highlands

Coastal Plains

Caribbean

Greater Antilles

Lesser Antilles

Public Appeal

W. D. Palmer Biography

About the Artist

W. D. Palmer Foundation Hashtags

Works Cited

Primary Organizer: W. D. Palmer

Secondary Organizer: Sharon Zea Rincon

Community Cohort: Amira Chowhudry, Ben Bedard, Aiden

Castellanos, Finlay Collins, Sean Lulley, Henry Siebert

WALTER D. PALMER

LEADERSHIP SCHOOL

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Currently W.D. Palmer is the founder and director of the W.D. Palmer Foundation (est. 1955), a repository of information on racism in health, education, employment, housing, courts, prisons, higher education, military, government, politics, law, banking, insurance, etc. He is also the founder of the Black People’s University of Philadelphia Freedom School (1955), which was the grassroots organizing and training center for grassroots community and political leadership in Philadelphia and nationally. These organizations were run as nonprofit unincorporated associations from 1955 until 1980 when the Palmer Foundation received its 501(c)(3) federal tax exemption status.

W.D. Palmer has also been a professor, teaching American Racism at the University of Pennsylvania since the 1960s and today he is a member of the Presidents Commission on 1619 four-hundred-year anniversary of African slavery in America. Professor Palmer has been a social activist leading the fight against racial injustice for over sixty years in Philadelphia and around the nation. In 1980, he led the fight for parental school choice which helped Pennsylvania governor Thomas Ridge get a law passed in 1997. Most recently in 2020, Philadelphia honored him for 60 years of fighting for social justice throughout the country.

In 2005, W.D. Palmer created the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Charter School, which borrowed eleven million dollars to build a two-story, 55,000 square foot building on two acres of land in North Philadelphia and acquired the Saint Bartholomew School for its middle and high school students. The school grew from 300 elementary school students in 2000, to 200 preschoolers and over 1,000 kindergarten to 12th graders by 2012.

W.D. Palmer commissioned a muralist to paint over 400 pre-selected portraits on the school walls, corridors, and stairwells, along with 25 individual 15-foot murals in the gymnasium. The Walter D. Palmer Leadership School recruited at-risk children from 17 of the poorest zip codes in Philadelphia, most of whom were 300% below the poverty line. Despite this, the school boasted a 95% daily attendance, 100% graduation rate, and 100% post graduate placement in two or four year colleges, trade, technology schools, or military service until the school’s closing in 2015.

PREFACE

When I was younger, I used to collect National Geographic magazines that people would throw away. It helped me expand my boundaries created by the limited community I grew up in. My father, whose schooling never went beyond the fourth grade, would take my seven siblings and me to the University Museum of Anthropology, where we learned about native and Indigenous peoples. I was always curious about the origin of humanity and where people came from. Over many years I have heard several people talk about race, ethnicity, and the origin of humanity with little or no real depth or understanding of this subject. This work is written in an attempt to answer some of these questions and stimulate conversation, investigation, and dialogue. The questions that were passed to investigators were who were the original Indigenous people of the world, where did they come from, what was their culture? Language? Customs? And civilization? What evidence did they leave behind that we can learn from? Our goal is to have people respect the history and struggles that our predecessors went through and the history they left behind to help us navigate our lives.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Since the inception of the Black People’s University Freedom School, we have designed all learning materials to be student driven. We encourage students from elementary, middle, high school, and college to research, write, produce, and publish our work. Therefore, all of W. D. Palmer Publishing’s written work will always reflect a strategy that encourages student leadership.

NOTICE

Any proceeds derived from the sales or donations of this book will go towards the development of additional leadership and educational curriculum, as well as training materials for our at-risk children and their families living in marginal communities.

DEDICATION

Have you ever wondered who were the original people, families, tribes of the world? When did they arrive on the seven continents and what contributions did they make for future people who would inhabit these areas? This book is dedicated to those original people who we may never come to know, understand, or fully appreciate the human struggle that they went through to survive and lay the foundation for succeeding generations.

W. D. Palmer

A BRIEF HISTORY

This work focuses on analyzing the intricacies of Indigenous