I brought this article up about a year ago and even though its long, EVERYONE should read it.
Native Americans have been altering the land for thousands of years...
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/mann.htm
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I started reading it--it's very long but GREAT!!!!!!!!!!
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read some more--it's like some scientists are saying there was 18 million Indians in No Amer and some othes are saying there were only 2 million.
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Finally finished this article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly sometime ago.
Focuses on new evidence that Native American cultures controlled the environment.
I had heard about the canals the Anasazi built in the Southwest, but his talks about maintaining buffalo herds in the Great Plains and of the So Amer Indians farming the Amazon. Proven? no. Possible? I think so.
the undercurrent of this article is that environmentalists want to keep natural areas as pristine and this author maintains that it never was pristine because of the 18 Million people who managed it before the European came.
Pretty far stretch, but worth reading it for the insights about native American land management techniques.
Focuses on new evidence that Native American cultures controlled the environment.
I had heard about the canals the Anasazi built in the Southwest, but his talks about maintaining buffalo herds in the Great Plains and of the So Amer Indians farming the Amazon. Proven? no. Possible? I think so.
the undercurrent of this article is that environmentalists want to keep natural areas as pristine and this author maintains that it never was pristine because of the 18 Million people who managed it before the European came.
Pretty far stretch, but worth reading it for the insights about native American land management techniques.
quote:Then it should have been very comfortable reading for you-fits right in with the typical enviro-nazi propoganda.
Pretty far stretch
Julie
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