[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Fascinating find.

[docbnj]

CIVILIZATION requires that the people can read and write their own language. There is no evidence that these people were literate, so it is more proper to refer to them as being a society, or a culture.

The term for people without civilation always has been savages; but this term now has a bad connotation, and writers are reluctant to use it even for peaceful, inoffensive groups.

[blam]

Thanks Ernest. We've discussed this site before and I still have the same question. Why is everyone else in the area known as such & such Indians and this group is known as the Freemont People...Why aren't they known as the Freemont Indians? (Maybe they weren't Indians?)