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To: dickmc
New question for these idiots: "How many cavemen with stone axes does it take to cause global warming?" ...or... "How many trees a year can a caveman cut down working 8 hours a day?"

Pre-Columbian North American Indians worked to maximize deer habitats, in order to improve their hunting prospects. Deer inhabit the interface between forest and meadow. The Indians maximised this habitat by deliberately setting fires from time to time to clear out forests

34 posted on 03/06/2005 7:20:26 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (God created men -- Sam Colt made them equal)
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To: SauronOfMordor
"Pre-Columbian North American Indians worked to maximize deer habitats, in order to improve their hunting prospects. Deer inhabit the interface between forest and meadow. The Indians maximised this habitat by deliberately setting fires from time to time to clear out forests"

These in the south were already farming 11K years ago.

Rainforest Researchers Hit Paydirt(Farming 11K Years Ago In South America)

36 posted on 03/06/2005 7:34:55 PM PST by blam
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To: SauronOfMordor
The Indians maximised this habitat by deliberately setting fires from time to time to clear out forests

That is a vicious Colonialist anti-Nativist revisionist racist myth. The industrious peace loving Indiginous Nations were performing enlightened environmental prescriptive burning of brush to prevent catastrophic wildfires that would have damaged the sacred ancient groves, in return for which Earth Mother and Sky Father sent fat deer to every hearth.

Professor Ward Churchill explained it very clearly in class last quarter, and he should know; he is either 1/16, or 3/16, Cherokee or Cree; unless he is 1/2 Sioux; except for the days he is 100% Upthecreek.

43 posted on 03/06/2005 10:42:31 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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