Humans were on this continent BEFORE the northern “virgin” forests took root.
Good piece. If you took away all the lies from the Environmentalists’ playbook, they wouldn’t have a whole lot left to work with.
Maybe we should emulate our Indian forbears and go and steal every drop of oil we can from the OPEC countries........
This utterly ridiculous but apparently unkillable myth needs to be exploded as often as possible.
The part of the myth that particularly gets my goat is: "Indians knew how to use every part of the animal they hunted, unlike Europeans who were used to just raising and slaughtering animals for meat." As a child, teachers told me this about 100 times in US history class.
Before Europeans ever came to the New World, what would they do with a cow?
They would eat all the muscle meat - steaks and chops, of course. They would also eat the organs (kidney pie, tripe, sweetbreads, liver, headcheese). The would turn the blood into black sausage. They would boil down the hooves for gelatins and aspics. They would crack the bones and eat the marrow, then roast the bones to extract stock for soups and sauces. They would use the bones for decorative purposes as well. They tanned the hides into leather garments. They even used the excrement to enrich the soil. Not to mention the milk, cream and butter they extracted from the animal during its life.
Only a profound self-hatred could make people proclaim the opposite of the obvious facts to be true.
bttt
Another illustration of why smart people homeschool.
GGG?
There is a book that compares photos of the Black Hills of South Dakota (sacred land to the Lakota) taken in 1876 by Gen. Custer’s expedition (the spring before the Little Bighorn) with the same view in 2002. One is immediately struck by the vast increase in forests. In 1876, forest fires set by natural or other means were not extinguished, nor were there human efforts made to replant forests.
Myths are not so easily “busted,” go into any high school in the U.S. today and ask of the students whether they had heard both sides of this story and you will get blank stares.
Why it matters should be our focus.
Mankind can’t harm the earth for the simple reason that the earth has no feelings in a moral or physiological sense.
It’s just a rock, careering in space, programmed to do so until the clock winds down.
Mankind should rightly concern himself with the survival of mankind unless he no longer wants to wait for the clock.
Santa Claus.. Easter Bunny... Honest Politicians..
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chieflogan.htm
“I appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered Logan’s cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if he ever came cold and naked and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace.
Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as I passed, and said, “Logan is a friend of the white man.” I have even thought to live with you but for the injuries of one man, Colonel Cresap, who last spring in cold blood and unprovoked murdered the relatives of Logan, not even sparing his wife and children.
There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This has called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance.
For my country, I rejoice in the beams of peace.
But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one.”
Amerindian speakers gave pretty moving speeches. Oration was a neccessary social skill in their society. People in preliterate societies had better memories than we do.
And English translators often had a poor grasp of the language they were interpreting and used literary license freely to fill in the gaps.
I always remembered the above speech by Chief Logan.
It is not known who the first Americans were, or even when. This is probably going to be seen by the academic anthropology lobby as a racist remark. It is impossible to stop laughing.