That's why every time one claim from the Pretendian FBAs collapses, (if you're not a Pretendian, I'm not talking about you, so if the shoe doesn't fit...) another conspiracy pops up to plug the gap. We are foundational quietly became, "WE WUZ THE ORIGINAL PPLS!"
People are taking real things like slavery in Native nations, racial mixing, bureaucratic violence, shifting census categories, and forcing them into a story they already decided on.
When the pieces do not align naturally, pressure is applied to force coherence. People think they are doing research but they are simply performing narrative hole-filling!
Absorption into Indigenous populations becomes the explanation. The Five Civilized Tribes are blamed. "Paper genocide" gets stretched beyond its meaning and is misused to imply racial erasure into Blackness.
The claim shifted toward Black Americans being framed as the original Indigenous population of the United States. Slave ships get minimized or reinterpreted.
Only a small number of Africans are said to have arrived. The Out of Africa Theory is now being challenged...