Good question. They had a mixed diet. Amaranth was ten feet tall and produced a larger seed than the current commercial stuff. Same for the Ojibwa Wild Rice. A typical rule for most Indian diets is the importance of mixing things so that there is balance. We extend that out into the environment as well. If you just eat one or two things then you will clean the environment of them and unbalance the world. It's better to mix. Remember the stereotypical statement: "Walk in balance." It was literally true and at the center of things. There were exceptions to this rule according to the story, amongst the buffalo people but they called Europeans Wasichus or greasy mouths because the European immigrants ate too many rabbits, didn't eat enough grease and become nutrient starved. The story is that a group walked into a village and took the grease from a deer at gunpoint. They would have given it to them had they asked. From then on they were called "greasy mouths" in remembrance of the guns.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darryl or Natalia Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 12:30 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Indian prejudice Could it not be possible that there was something else in the diet that would counter the affects of Amaranth or, genetically, the peoples had developed resistance over the centuries of use? Darryl On 11/7/2010 4:26 AM, Christoph Reuss wrote: > REH "replied": >> Thanks for your reply. I understand you perspective. > > Is this all you can say about the Amaranth question? > > Chris > > > >>> Amaranth, not corn, beans or squash, was the real American genius >>> crop and the Spaniards returned it to the wild. Even today American >>> scientists have been unable to reproduce the accomplishments of the >>> Amaranth developed by Aztec scientists. >> >> What exactly is the difference to the Amaranth we can buy in the shops >> today? >> >> Btw, Amaranth protein has way too much arginine, the amino acid that makes >> you susceptible to viral infections. (I'm not making this up.) >> That was the reason I had to quit Amaranth. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
