tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post116475972076152756..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Historical truth of the IndianRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-1165228907023386882006-12-04T02:41:00.000-08:002006-12-04T02:41:00.000-08:00Mann's book and this book review make similar ecol...Mann's book and this book review make similar ecological points about Indians:<BR/><BR/>http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/thornton070206.html<BR/><BR/>Indeed, some of the icons of America 's supposedly pristine wilderness were in fact the <I>consequence</I> of the Europeans' presence, which disrupted the resource management techniques the Indians had developed over the centuries. The endless flocks of passenger pigeons celebrated and mourned by John Muir and James Fenimore Cooper were the result of fewer Indians. So too with the bison herds, which flourished in the ecological space once occupied by Indians whose number had been diminished by disease. So too with the "forest primeval" admired by American Romantics. All were part of the new environment that came into being after Indian numbers plummeted and the landscape they had crafted and tended over the centuries began to alter. As Mann concludes, "Far from destroying pristine wilderness…Europeans bloodily <I>created</I> it."Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-1165217660268757052006-12-03T23:34:00.000-08:002006-12-03T23:34:00.000-08:00there are only about 2 million native americans in...there are only about 2 million native americans in the U.S., They are the real minority...not the Latinos and Blacks whose number is ever increasing.<BR/><BR/>i'm afraid the NDN race will one day disappear through natural death and intermarriage. Sad times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com