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Bill Kingsbury wrote:
>
> I told her that I was investigating a story from a 1909 Phoenix
> newspaper article about the Smithsonian Institution's having
> excavated rock-cut vaults in the Grand Canyon where Egyptian
> artefacts had been discovered,
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Hawk wrote:
>> Not all tribes were foragers and gatherers...many farmed...how do you
>> think the Pilgrims learned to grow corn, and fertilize it with fish?
>
>Fairy tale Do you think Europeans didn't know how to farm until Indians taught
>them?
Some Euro
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from: http://www.keelynet.com/unclass/canyon.txt
Archeological Coverups?
by David Hatcher Childress
Originally placed on the KeelyNet BBS on May
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Thank you, H.
Dee Brown's book is an outstanding work on the subject. But many of our
conservative friends are leery of reading anything favorable about
"minority" Americans because they're afraid that it might be an example of
politically correct propaganda.
Sure. During the
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YnrChyldzWyld has the stronger arguments in this exchange. But in
fairness to Hawk, I think he is not arguing that Native American culture
was not without merit...just that European civilization brought with it
certain tech advantages...
OK.
I'm glad that some of you on the lis
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>For a real wild history of America, read the Book of Mormon.<
A very good non-fiction book about the native American wars is "Bury My
Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown. It's a classic.
--
At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!' Then
there was still n
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YnrChyldzWyld wrote:
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> 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...
I never contended such a thing
> Not all tribes were forag
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For a real wild history of America, read the Book of Mormon.
No, I'm not a Mormon. Also, I came up with something awhile
back, while digging through 1925 issues of the New York Times.
I'll see if I can find it. Also, David Hatcher Childress
(I think that's his name) of Adventures
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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 n
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [snip] Until recently, the most knowledgable students estimated that there were
> somewhere between 15 and 20 million Indians in the hemisphere when Columbus
> arrived, agreeing also that probably only some 850,000 lived within the present
> boundaries
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Kris: About historic American Indian population figures --
Not exactly that many. Here is a quote from Alvin Josephy -- while a dated
Indian historian, his basic material even in 1995 was still considered the
most reliable to date on general facts like this. Bracketed quotes
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