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living "the old ways" today
| March 27th, 2023 at 12:00:38 PM permalink | |
| missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3108 | Usurpation, conquest, annihilation: the white man's treatment of Native Americans left much to be desired. But having said that...are any Native Americans still living in the USA as their ancestors did pre-conquest? Do any eschew modern medicine, modern tech, and live a primitive life? |
| March 27th, 2023 at 12:02:30 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4972 |
I think Chief Wahoo may have been the last one.  At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| March 27th, 2023 at 12:25:59 PM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5116 | Understanding how they lived pre-conquest and why they couldn't live without coming into conflict with white settlers is best done by reading a book I recommend The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens ... balanced, tells it like it was [as you can tell by the title] but without blaming the white man for everything I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| March 27th, 2023 at 1:04:31 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18775 | Pretty sure it wasn't the Indians that made this mountain of buffalo skulls.  You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| March 27th, 2023 at 9:24:21 PM permalink | |
| missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3108 | I guess I'm just wondering whether it is even possible for a NA to still believe the prior spiritual beliefs, hunt, gather, relocate frequently as done back in the day. I think probably not. Even a shaman probably lives in a mobile home and has a cell phone now. |
| March 28th, 2023 at 3:35:35 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5116 | The ruminants of the world must all be killed to prevent global warning. We should applaud this picture [evidently] I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| March 28th, 2023 at 7:57:14 AM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4530 |
There middens on the West coast from indigenous peoples with an equivalent amount of material but they are the remnants of shell fish. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| March 28th, 2023 at 8:50:18 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18775 |
I assume they were actually using the shellfish for eating purposes also. It would be a lot of work to collect random buffalo skulls and make a pile like that. Not much work by comparison picking up shells washed ashore on the beaches that are already vacated of life. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| March 28th, 2023 at 2:17:47 PM permalink | |
| missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3108 | Pic of oyster midden in Nahcotta, Wa., near Oysterville.  back story: http://sydneyofoysterville.com/2011/of-shell-piles-and-middens/ |
| March 28th, 2023 at 4:04:47 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18775 | The birds.
Can’t say I would miss that after the first experience, but the rain of bird crap coming down must of been awesome in its magnificent awfulness. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |