Racism in the 1909 article I do not agree with or endorse racism found in the 1909 story, or anywhere else it rears it's ugly head. I DO NOT support racism in any form or manner whatsoever. I have disagreed with racism in any form or manner for my entire life. - Jack Andrews 2001 The 1909 story clearly says: "Mr. Kinkaid was the first white child born in Idaho" I find this to be a racist comment of the time. The article also states: "One theory is that the present Indian tribes found in Arizona are descendants of the serfs or slaves of the people which inhabited the cave. Undoubtedly a good many thousands of years before the Christian era, a people lived here which reached a high stage of civilization." The racist implication here is that the current Native American tribes (of that period in 1909) were incapable of building the vast underground installation described in the article. I dfisagree with this statement. I think it is possible that the installation could have been built by Native Americans. At the same time, I do not close the door to speculation that a seperate group of Chinese or Northern Indian (from India) or Egyptian people could have made the installation. I have evidence that shows ancient peoples from many areas of the globe could have been in North America and the southwest, building such installations. The main point I am making here is that while I disagree with racist statements made in the 1909 article, I don't close the door on keeping an open mind on who may have built the installation in the Grand Canyon. I do not subscribe to the idea that ancient peoples were somehow incapable of travelling across the seas. I do not see ancient cultures as "primitives" who could not possibly have sailed to America and built such structures. I find such notions, often promoted by anti diffusionist dogmatic minds, just as racist (perhaps even more so) as theories put forth in 1909. - Jack Andrews copyright 2001 may be only used in it's entirety with this notice clearly visible.