Well, native American tribes were violent with other native American tribes. Not to mention the violence they committed against white settlers.
No, no, no! Indigenous peoples in North America tripped lightly through the meadows, communing with Nature, talking with animals each by name, and subsisting on a purely vegetarian & ecofriendly diet.
THEN.......the evil palefaces arrived!!! Dum dum da DUM!!!
Holy cr@p.........the sad reality has conquered any future attempt at parody. Truth is stranger than any fiction now.
Something wiped out the vast majority of people on this continent before any Europeans arrived. The continent is covered with the ruins of more advanced civilizations that had collapsed leaving the more primitive indians that we think of.
Those wonderful indigenous peoples!
Cannibalism!
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000907&slug=4041058
Torture!
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
General slaughter(Mound 72)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
http://www.salon.com/2009/08/06/cahokia/
Sacrificial Skull racks
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/what-was-the-point-of-the-skull-rack
More sacrifices
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090714-peru-chotuna-video-ap.html
More sacrifices!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2885-mass-human-sacrifice-unearthed-in-peru.html#.VDlzTBYt6po
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/760183/posts
Ain’t Diversity grand!
Not only were numerous Indian tribes violent towards their neighbors, they were destroyers of the land. Yes, the Indians who are portrayed as staunch environmentalists, actually destroyed the land. They had a history of migration, moving to a new location after they had farmed the land to the point it no longer supported crops, hunted the land to the point it was devoid of animals and soiled the land with their garbage and human waste. Once that was accomplished, they picked up stakes and moved elsewhere.
“Movement is life. Movement is seen everywhere…. Movement was characteristic of our ancestors, who moved across the landscape like the clouds across the sky.”— Tessy Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo. NM
Well, native American tribes were violent with other native American tribes. Not to mention the violence they committed against white settlers.
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Yep. First Colonist from England with my surname was slaughtered about 1640, along with his wife, at Olde Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. Only their baby survived and was taken in by the maternal grandparents; thus allowing my ancestral line to continue and me to exist. All others of my surname stem from that little baby and later from freed slaves a couple of hundred years later who took on their former owners’ surname. ....The Indian chief who led the raid that killed around 400 was the Uncle of Pocahantas.