[quote]mbdix wrote:
I think that we can get a very good idea of how it was by looking at the Native Americans lifestyle. Some Native American tribes were strictly hunter gatherers. There were obviously tribes that had special farming techniques, but the first Native Americans to reach America would have been prior to the farming boom the Author describes.
In my opinion it is easy to look at Native Americans and get a pretty good idea of how groups of people would have coexisted in a fairly large group prior to the farming boom.
When looking at Native Americans it becomes clear that there were a variety of ways that these tribes worked and operated. Most of them had a Chief though. Actually men in different important roles. But, a Chief was normally there if I am not mistaken.
So a group of people migrated to the Americas prior to the end of the Ice Age 11,500 years ago. Prior to the “farming boom” across Earth because of the end of the Ice Age. It had to take these people a very long time to spread out across the Americas and settle in. I would think that their tribes structure would not change much during this time, because it had been working for them.[/quote]
Ah, yes, the Noble Red Man. But for the evil white man, I would be peacefully hunting buffalo right now.
Or, in reality, I could take you to the valley on the Mescalero reservation that is filled with the bones of Zuni my tribe slaughtered for some unknown reason, but probably because we were bigger, meaner, had mastered the bow, and wanted their shit.
That was 1000 years ago and if I go to Albuquerque, the Zunis at Home Depot still freak out and run to the back of the store. THAT’s an ass-whipping.
Have a couple of tribal splinters too, where we burned opposing Apache tribes up alive.
And Comanche? Fuck we killed each other for 2,000 years before white men showed up. I couldn’t get laid in the State of Oklahoma to save my life, the hatred still runs so deep.
But of course, we were environmentalists. For example, we used a whole lot of the buffalo we would get into a stampede in order to drive them, en masse, over a cliff. “Buffalo Drop” near Lincoln is named such for a reason.
Seriously, I am not Mr. P.C., but the Liberal Hollywood B.S. of Native Americans being anything different than everyone else on this world is annoying as shit.
