Posted on 07/10/2015 10:36:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai
First Lady Michelle Obama said on Thursday at a tribal youth gathering at the White House that the United States is “finally” embracing the wisdom of Native Americans on conservation and climate change, and claimed that America’s founders modeled the U.S. government partly on the “Iroquois Confederacy.”
“Today, on issues like conservation and climate change, we are finally beginning to embrace the wisdom of your ancestors,” Mrs. Obama said at the event where youth from 230 tribes from 42 states participated.
“Now, long before the United States was even an idea, your ancestors were harvesting the crops that would feed the world for centuries to come,” Obama said. “And places like Seattle and Michigan and natural wonders like Niagara Falls and Yosemite can only be named using your Native languages.” […]
“One of your early democratic institutions—the Iroquois Confederacy—served as a model for the United States government,” Obama said. …
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>>The choosing of chiefs for the confederacy seems oligarchic to me rather than democratic; the “clan mothers” choose them. I don’t know where the first lady got the idea of it being “democratic” from.
To people like Chewbama, an oligarchy is “democratic enough” as long as the right oligarchs are in charge. (Like her and her gay husband)
Of course, the ecology adapted to one with extensive fires, that repeatedly reset the plant succession. The notion that fires “do harm to nature” is not really one that stands up well to analysis.
Any large wooded area that didn’t have fires would soon reach climax forest and stay there. Which would be very bad news for the majority of plants and animals that can’t live in such an environment.
For the most part, climax forests are relatively sterile places. The most productive natural environments are usually “edge” environments, where, for instance, meadows intermingle with forest.
The Sky God is very angry.
Sky God say too many people. People bad.
Sky God say machines bad. Electricity bad. Humans breathing out air very bad.
Sky God say sacrifice much wampum.
Bring to chiefs.
Sky God say sacrifice evil doers who oppose priest of Sky God...
Apparently the Iroquois sky deity is female.
Kinda debunks the "Old Growth" forest crap, doesn't it.
I'm not saying I think that natives were bad, they did what they had to in order to live. I'm just sick and tired of people harkening back to the bad old days thinking they were so peaceful and bucolic.
Advanced precolonial cultures recognized Sky God as transanthropomorfic. Sky God was (from one moon to the next moon) a male or female of whatever animal she wanted to be whenever he wanted to be it.
Man, she is one stupid racist.
Too bad she didn’t listen to the wisdom of hers. Black women used to have a LOT more sense. (Thank the Lord, some still do.)
Yes, it is widely known that early Native Americans were opposed to the use of fossil fuels and had zero-point energy alternatives on the drawing board.
Does that include the slash and burn farming that eastern Indians regularly engaged in to clear out the forests for planting corn?
So due to all this revisionist bs, I have to forget about this image, portraying my 10 th great
grandfather.
Chief Emperor Wahunsonacock Big Chief AMERICAN Powhaton
1545–1618
BIRTH 17 JUNE 1545 • Werowocomoco Pamunkey River, King William, Virginia, United States
DEATH 01 APR 1618 • Pamunkey River, King William, pre Virginia, United States
10th great-grandfather
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