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Nothing else."~Epictetus
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"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."~Epictetus
God bless this site, this Free Republic.
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Hmmm—They lived in harmony with mother Gaia, but not one another.
And we’re headed for ANOTHER violent era, if those damn borders stay porous.
“It’s a given that, in numbers terms, the 20th Century was the most violent in history, with civil war, purges and two World Wars killing as many as 200 million people. But on a per-capita basis, Washington State University archaeologist Tim Kohler has documented a particularly bloody period more than eight centuries ago on what is now American soil. Between 1140 and 1180, in the central Mesa Verde ofsouthwest Colorado, four relatively peaceful centuries of pueblo living devolved into several decades of violence.
Writing in the journal American Antiquity, Kohler and his colleagues at WSU and at the University of Colorado-Boulder document how nearly nine out of ten sets of human remains from that period had trauma from blows to either their heads or parts of their arms. “If we’re identifying that much trauma, many were dying a violent death,” said Kohler, whose study was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Yet at the same time, in the northern Rio Grande region of what is now New Mexico, people had far less while experiencing similar growth and, ostensibly, population pressures. Viewed together, said Kohler, the two areas offer a view into what motivates violence in some societies but not others. The study also offers more clues to the mysterious depopulation of the northern Southwest, from a population of about 40,000 people in the mid-1200s to none 30 years later.”
An excerpt.
Having just come back from a trip to Tuba City in Northern Arizona, I can say that there is little love lost between today’s Navajo and the Hopi. Take away the minimum comfort level today’s society provides, and there would certainly be blood.
Anthropologists and archaeologists will say anything to publish. For all they know it could have been gang violence due to drugs.
That can’t be! Everyone knows “Dances With Wolves” was a documentary.
Gee, the Indians fought amongst themselves?
I thought it was all the White Man’s fault?
That’s one of the great myths propagated by liberal educators (that’s most of them) for the past fifty years. The idea that the noble original inhabitants were just as bloodthirsty as the nasty, white Europeans is an abhorrent thought to the libs. So they had to concoct a story about all Indians being at one with nature and their Indian neighbors. In reality, many American Indian tribes, like the Sioux, were as happy to slaughter their neighbors and take their lands as were Europeans.
Iroquois legend has it the the Canadian Iroquois went south & wiped out a southern tribe who invaded NY State around 708 B.C years before Columbus, because the southern Tribe killed an emissary, a prince who came to them for peace terms..
It was given that name because the first white settlers to the area found the valley covered with the bleached bones if Indians who had been massacred.....
by other Indians.
Referring to VIOLENCE amongst engines is now a HATE CRIME, isn’t it? Or, if not, it soon will be.
Wasn’t it the hyper-violent Comanche who prevented first the Spanish and later the Mexicans from settling the southwestern US?
