[Right Republican]

I'm not interested in Native American paganism, mysticism, or panthesism.

[agitator]

I don't give a fat rat's ass what you're interested in. :)

[jnarcus]

How about being interested in the history and archeology of te country in which you live? Most anthropological guesses as to what various items were used for or what their meaning is are vastly off target....I like getting new information and updates on new uses of scientific instrumentation

[genefromjersey]

Well, good for you - ( I heard SOMEONE say ! )

The Cahokia people may have antedated those we now call "Native Americans"; and had a fairly thriving culture-symbolized by the mounds still existing from the Ohio valley to the NY Finger Lakes.

Some of the mounds may have been ceremonial; others seem to have been fighting platforms.Use of smelted copper tools and weapons was common, and some describe a written language, which resembles that associated with the Celts.

[muawiyah]

Look, I have it on good authority these people were all good Conservatives and that, at least, in Indiana they were registered Republicans who took it upon themselves to vote early and often!

BTW, just because somebody else's ancestral figure was turned into a pipe doesn't mean it gained a newer or lesser meaning. MJ grows wild in the Ohio Valley. No doubt there was trade in other hallucinogenic products throughout the Americas. Those pipes were "handy", eh?!

[John Beresford Tipton]

Perhaps you should have followed Mark Twain's advice that it is better to be quiet and let everybody think you’re a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt?

[MineralMan]

"I'm not interested in Native American paganism, mysticism, or panthesism."

Gosh, thanks for sharing that with us. This thread is probably not for you, then. For those of us interested in Archaeology, however, it's in interesting thread. Bye, now.

[gcruse]

I'm not interested in Native American paganism, mysticism, or panthesism.

I'm not interested in invisible men in the sky who exhort us
to eat their flesh and drink their blood.  I hope you don't
subscribe to that particular superstition.