I am always impressed

True, sorry about that but it's also true that most white men prefer suburb type of residences rather than trying to live with nature and making the most of it.

Really big log cabin you got there.

@rebelann I rest my case.

@rebelann You can't say people today are the same. Most people (pioneers) were concerned with survival. We can't beat people up for what their ancestors did .but we should not repeat it

Well, so far history has shown that almost all Europeans either wanted land of their own or gold and in their pursuits for land did clear out most trees to build homes or clear the land for agriculture. Native Americans never did those things firstly because Native Americans could not fathom owning land which to them was a part of their beloved mother earth. Also they were either semi or totally nomadic.

Yes, they were concerned with survival but for those pioneers it meant owning land to build on or grow crops etc, I doubt many even considered who'd lived there whole lives there before which meant they were displacing thousands for their own gains.

Yes, you are correct. Here they've destroyed all kinds of forests and meadows for the sake of raising cattle or sheep or growing wheat or corn or soy We need those trees we've cut down more than any of that because they gave us oxygen to breath and cleaned air pollution.

I agree. I hug trees, really, I do.

Yes, you are correct. More people need to learn to respect nature and try to work with it instead of against it.

Many governments will not interfere with religious beliefs like those of the Catholics or Mormons who believe in having large families, well, at least they used to if they do not anymore.

@rebelann - Too many seem not to care at all. The global warming is a reality and the earth is not big enough for too many humans. I wonder why still the governments encourage people to have children, pay them to stop at a maximum of 2.

Maybe but we Europeans would have learned not to stay too long in areas where nasty hurricanes or tornados were known to happen or for that matter where the winters were unbearable. Many Native American tribes had 2 places they'd call home, one for winter months and another for summer months. They were really smart.

@rebelann .......Many did it in the early times of this Earth.

Thats one way to put it. The druids had the same kind of misfortune

@rebelann If only everyone on this planet did their part, right? I think there are even some cultures that sweep their yards and do not kill any insects - even bugs are to be respected there.

Yes, I try to be that way but I draw the line with ticks, fleas & mosquitoes.

You're right. I know there are cultures around the world who have more respect for nature than I've seen here but I just wish more people would follow their lead.

I hope you can find more information about your Native American heritage. I have very little Native American blood but I wish I knew more about it as well.

You are correct, I should not have put it that way in my discussion.

It sure is. Much of it happened in the early 1800 due to presidents like andrew Jackson, he was despicable.

Yes it is

Some traditions I have a problem with though.

@rebelann me too. sometimes.

As far as I can tell only an anthropologist could make heads or tails out of the origins of the Native people of north American ..... or south for that matter ..... and all those theories that some come up with seem to be thrown out with each new generation of anthropologists. I'm betting that Vikings did indeed land on the shores of north America at some point and I'm sure some of them interacted and even mixed in with whatever Natives they may have encountered. In the southern end of the Americas its not too far fetched to conjure that some of the African peoples might have also landed on some point of the southern part of the Americas, it seems many ancients were very adept with creating and using boats or other floating devices.

@rebelann It makes sense they crossed the Bering Strait, horses did too, so they'd come from Siberia at the very least. And genetics seem to agree. I don't know how new this info would be, but that's what I tend to believe. Africa and South America were probably very close -if not connected by land - a long time ago, so that's very likely too.

I know what you mean. My dads ancestors came on it as well.