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Inaccurate title. 1000 years before columbus, first nations people were already living in NA.
It doesn't say they were the first to do so.
discover infers a first, unless it's qualified. Which the title is not.
So Columbus didn't discover America too, because there were at least few civilizations living there already. All continents (except Antarctica) have their indigenous human population, but discovery is often used from the perspective of western civilization. It's only a matter of the point of view.
That's right. And it's an outdated, racist and ethnocentric way of thinking. We know better now than to dehumanize other civilizations.
Oak Island == Hoax
Actually, I find it perfectly reasonable to believe that during these hundreds years of naval shipping, there were at least some cases of adventurous, misguided or lost ships reaching the coast of Americas. What I don't understand, what's the big deal about that?
I believe it's possible, but I don't believe the show Oak Island is a credible source for evidence of it.
The tricky part is making a 40+-day voyage with 5 days of food and maybe 10 days of water.
My thoughts are:

a) some lost roman ship luckily ended on the other side of the ocean, not knowing where they are (if they made it alive) or;

b) a collector's ship just coming back from Europe devastated by a storm and ended on the floor of the ocean.

The Oak Island stuff seems to come up here every few weeks...

... and always from fake news sites. (Have you ever seen a legitimate news site without any real contact information? In this case, there is a contact buried at the bottom, but to a different domain -- and that domain is a dummy for-sale domain.)