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YnrChyldzWyld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Whether Native Americans corraled bison or drove them off cliffs, the
> FACT of the matter is that at the time the Europeans showed up, bison
> numbered in the MILLIONS, and their accounts relate migrations where
> bison herds filled the land from horizon to horizon FOR DAYS...
>
> And yet within a few years of the railroad coming thru, the bison had
> been almost exterminated...
>
> So whatever hunting methods Indians used, even if they 'wasted' half a
> bison when butchering it, the FACT of the matter is that their methods
> did NOT wipe out the herds, but in fact seem to have made the herds more
> vigorous...while the European hunting methods did just the opposite...
>
>
> June
Two comments on this thread: first, to speak of "the <American> Indians" is
about like speaking of "the Europeans"--there is more difference between
Lakota and Mohawk than between Spaniard and Russian. *Some* of the Indians
sometimes drove bison off of cliffs; *some* corralled them; *some* Indians
didn't even hunt bison. Second, anything the Indians might have done to the
detriment of the environment pales beside the "accomplishments" of American
"civilization." The Indians didn't almost wipe out the bison; *we* (Europeans)
did. The Indians didn't exterminate the passenger pigeon; *we* did. The
Indians didn't practice genocide against white settlers; *we* used germ
warfare and forced relocation and outright massacre against the Indians. To
accuse the Indians of doing precisely what we know damn well our ancestors
(*my* ancestors, anyway, William!) did to the land, is hypocrisy and
small-mindedness.
Bob
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