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To: rwfromkansas
We are taught they respected the Earth, when really, some Indians actually chopped down trees like there was no tomorrow and wasted natural resources like crazy.

Indeed. The Plains tribes, before the reintroduction of the horse to North America, hunted Bison by using fire to drive a huge herd off a cliff, then butchered the dead and dying beasts, taking only choice parts, leaving tons of dead bison to rot. I said that the horse was reintroduced to North America, and it's true. There had been large herds of wild horses some centuries before, but the Native Americans had eaten them into extinction...

the infowarrior

45 posted on 01/27/2005 11:49:55 PM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: infowarrior

Wow. Where did you read this stuff?


48 posted on 01/27/2005 11:58:37 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: infowarrior
the horse was reintroduced to North America

Wasn't the earlier horse pliohippus? Didn't resemble the the beast we know today.

65 posted on 01/28/2005 5:32:18 AM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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