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Originally Posted by Elspode
We Anglo descendants have done a pretty darn good job of assimilation, elimination and just plain killing off of pretty much everything that wasn't Caucasian, Christian and European, haven't we?
Sad, as these so-called "primitive" cultures seem to have a much better handle on survival and a better relationship with the natural world than we do.
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They had a better handle on survival because they had to..........or not survive. They had to be in touch with nature to avail themselves of all the early warning they could get. When you live basically outside, weather is a life or death force.
The "Caucasian, Christian and European" people spend much of their time outside farming and forageing but had an "inside" for shelter from weather and critters.
I think the "white" mans solution is much smarter. It works for me. Why adapt to a threat when you can minimize it.
As far as a better relationship with the natural world, again survival.
A primative and nomadic lifestyle requires knowing how the things around you can help or hurt. That knowledge was lost to those that didn't need it.
The Indians used what they could kill or forage and when it was no longer available they moved on. The area recovered because the Indians were small populations doing minimal permanant damage. That lifesyle can't be sustained by larger groups.
When the indians were made aware of and given access to, guns, iron axes, cookware and machine woven textiles, they leaped at them, Their lifestyle was always by necessity not by choice.
BTW, that second picture looks more like a goat.
