Before the white man brought the horse to America, more Indians were killed by buffalos than buffalos were killed by Indians.
That Noble Native American you see on television had nothing to do with real pre-white America. They lived on corn and, like the Peruvians today, were horribly sick from worms and malnutrition. Their teeth fell out, they had all the horrible diseases like pelagra that malnutrition brings.
Those were the Great Native American Civilizations and the wildly sophisticated Mound People.
Once Indians got horses, they started slaughtering buffalo, cutting off only the hump for meat. You know, that thing that only the Evil White Man did.
If Indians killed a LOT of buffalo, they would just eat the humps. If they killed only a few, they ate every bit of the buffalo. So historians decided that Indians used every bit of Beloved Brother Buffalo, while whites were callous and cruel and killed them for fun.
Indians had nothing else, so used all of the buffalo for their needs. Political Correctness has declared this True Morality.
Professional historians are not just “mistaken.” They are silly asses.
#1 by Horace on 11/10/2004 - 12:31 pm
RE: Those were the Great Native American Civilizations and the wildly sophisticated Mound People.
I understand that in one location in West Virginia they found Maxwell’s field equations inscribed and explained. And this was 100 years before Maxwell proposed them. So their level of sophistication was remarkable indeed!
#2 by Richard L. Hardison on 11/10/2004 - 6:55 pm
That, if true, would be quite remarkable since Maxwell’s work is dependent upon the work of Faraday. Frankly, I find it far too incredible to believe.
#3 by Horace on 11/11/2004 - 9:19 am
I believe that many eminent historians now agree that in some areas the wildly sophisticated Mound People were even ahead of the renowned African Aborigines in scientific achievement.
For example, it appears that in the early 19th Century the African Aborigines were only familiar with Planck’s constant, whereas the Mound People already knew about Heisenberg’s theories.
Perhaps at some point they will establish a Mound People University where all of these achievements can be studied in detail.