Interesting story Louis but how do you account for the practice
whereby some tribes in the plains used to stampede whole herds
of bison over cliffs as a quick way of killing them and then
picking only bits and pieces of the bodies below. Incredible
waste and lack of concern for their natural partners.
kind regards
bill
> One famous counerexample to the view that Indians were
>always "in harmony with nature" is the high probability
>that the extinction of the sabre-tooth tiger and several
>other large mammals in North America probably resulted from
>overhunting arising from the initial invasion of the
>continent by the human species, the first Native American
>Indians to be precise. This does not say that many tribes
>later adopted highly ecologically sound approaches.
>Barkley Rosser
>On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:03:20 -0500 Louis Proyect
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Indian religious beliefs are intrinsically ecological since they regard
>> nature as sacred.
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