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"Not so very long ago that many archaeologists regarded the Ancestral Puebloan people–or the Anasazi, as researchers once called them–as a rather peaceful, mystical group of astronomers, artists, priests and farmers."

They said the same thing about the Mayans too. Apparently, only white europeans were warlike.

[sphinx]

The myth of the noble savage is projected on any aboriginal group about which we know next to nothing.

But sooner or later, the evidence turns up .... We are all brothers of Cain under the skin.

[ChiefJayStrongbow]

... the Indians are always portrayed as more spiritual than the white-man. Their lack of understanding of certain natural events is attributed to spirits and they are always portrayed as in harmony with nature.

My family and I toured some caves in Pennsylvania and the guide pointed out smoke stains on the walls and ceiling of the cave ... caused by the white men who inhabited the caves on and off for about twenty years. The indians who had dwelt in the caves for thousands of years, had built fires for cooking and heating, but according to the park ranger, it was the smoke from the white man’s fires that caused the stains. I asked if the indian’s fires produced smoke and could have been responsible for some of the stains. The park ranger insisted that the indians had perfected smoke free fires. Smoke free.

[Little Bill]

Some members of my family and a few others founded a town in the Rockey's in 1851, the first thing they built was a Fort, I wonder why?