-Caveat Lector-
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Hawk wrote:
>In my opinion,
Your OPINION matters not a whit...what matters are FACTS...got any?
>I think it was due to OVER-POPULATION.
What you THINK matters not a whit...where are your FACTS?
>"under-productivity per person." The Indians simply were not producers... They
>were foragers and gatherers, spending most of their energy getting something to
>eat and providing shelter for themselves.
The preponderance of 'Indian mounds' throughout the eastern U.S. would
tend to belie your contention that the Native Americans were incapable of
producing anything...
Not all tribes were foragers and gatherers...many farmed...how do you
think the Pilgrims learned to grow corn, and fertilize it with fish?
The tribes of the northeast lived in established communities, dependent
on farming and fishing, with occasional hunting and occasional
'gathering'...just like the European settlers...
These same tribes had a pretty involved monetary system utilizing wampum,
and the Iroquois Confederacy became the foundation on which our own
Constitution was written...hardly 'nonproductive' people...
>Why, then, was North America, with is vast potential wealth, inhabited
>by starving people...
The answer is, it wasn't...the Europeans did NOT find starving Indians
when they got here, in fact it was the European immigrants who starved,
and the native populations had to show the Europeans how to grow food,
what to hunt, fish, gather, etc., so that the Europeans could survive...
June
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