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.
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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.