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Liberty said:
How is it that Indians could take care of the land and fashion the forests

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Funny thing about the modern idea of Indians. One of my great-grandmas was a Cherokee, and I ain't saying they were all bad - but.

How come the people who were there at the time, the white settlers of the 1700's and 1800's, thought Indians were vermin - and now we think the "noble red man" was taking care of the land?

"Political correctness" dictates the glorification of all cultures - all except the white European/American culture, which is always portrayed as bad.

I read a lot about archaeology, and in North America they're constantly finding evidence of killing and cannibalism among Indian tribes. Findings like that are ruthlessly suppressed because of political correctness and modern sensitivity to all cultures. That's b.s., in my opinion.

I think the pre-European Indian world was mostly constant warfare, raids, and butchery between the tribes. When the whites came in and put a stop to that, the surviving Indians were left sneaking around the edges of society - unwilling to work, stealing what they could, and getting drunk.

As far as Indians "taking care" of the land - they didn't take care of chit. They were nasty, dirty, lazy, mostly interested in killing each other, and they exploited the resources of a vast continent just as hard as a few primitive people could. So much for the noble red man.

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