I am always impressed

@rebelann (112732)
El Paso, Texas
October 16, 2024 2:30pm CST
With Native American traditions. Why is it that the white man always wants to destroy everything rather than try to live with Mother Natures creations?
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/bear-hair-and-fish-weirs-meet-the-indigenous-people-combining-modern-science-with-ancestral-principles-to-protect-the-land
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@TheHorse (217610)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Oct
Not all white men do.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Oct
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.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Oct
Really big log cabin you got there.
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@TheHorse (217610)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Oct
@rebelann I rest my case.
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@snowy22315 (179440)
• United States
16 Oct
I agree with the horse. It's kind of dangerous tp generalize about a group or certain race of people, but many haven't been good stewards of this environment partly why we are in the mess we are in,
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@snowy22315 (179440)
• United States
17 Oct
@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
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Oct
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.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Oct
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.
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@marguicha (222142)
• Chile
16 Oct
More of these traditions should be taught at schools. In my country they have destroyed forests to raise alien cattle.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Oct
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.
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@Juliaacv (50944)
• Canada
16 Oct
We should all be open minded to our native people. We can take a page from our aboriginals, they have remained true to their roots and practices and we need to understand the significance of their teachings and what it must mean to them.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Oct
I agree. I hug trees, really, I do.
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@LadyDuck (470445)
• Switzerland
17 Oct
Luckily not all white men want to destroy everything. Still too many (not only white) do not care about Mother Nature.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Oct
Yes, you are correct. More people need to learn to respect nature and try to work with it instead of against it.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Oct
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.
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@LadyDuck (470445)
• Switzerland
18 Oct
@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.
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@RasmaSandra (79209)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Oct
I think Europeans could have learned a lot from Native Americans and vice versa if only everyone could get along.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Oct
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.
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@celticeagle (165620)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Oct
Pretty idiotic. I think Mother Nature is slow and man wants it fast.
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@celticeagle (165620)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Oct
@rebelann .......Many did it in the early times of this Earth.
@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Oct
Thats one way to put it. The druids had the same kind of misfortune
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@RebeccasFarm (89744)
• Arvada, Colorado
20 Oct
I am always impressed too. Love the Natives.
@jstory07 (139309)
• Roseburg, Oregon
17 Oct
The first people came over on the Mayflower wanted the land as theirs. They did not care how they destroyed the land or what they did to the indigenous people. They were in the wrong but you know they only cared about getting the land. My family came over on the Mayflower but I do not agree with what they did to claim the land.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Oct
I know what you mean. My dads ancestors came on it as well.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50069)
• United States
29 Oct
I wish that I knew more about my Native American history and customs.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
29 Oct
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.
@LindaOHio (176077)
• United States
17 Oct
Man (some, not all) has slaughtered the buffalo and put our Native Americans on reservations. It's shameful.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
17 Oct
It sure is. Much of it happened in the early 1800 due to presidents like andrew Jackson, he was despicable.
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@Dreamerby (3747)
• Calcutta, India
20 Oct
Deeply saddening
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Oct
Yes it is
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@grenery8 (9177)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
20 Oct
very good question. traditions are always there to follow.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Oct
Some traditions I have a problem with though.
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@grenery8 (9177)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
22 Oct
@rebelann me too. sometimes.
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@somewitch (1310)
23 Oct
I believe we (whites) were like Natives too at some point, we used to be hunters-gatherers and we're even distantly related to Native Americans. Then people from Northern Eurasia would be the closest. Who knows what happened, what made us think we were above Nature. Got my theories but they might be controversial and not supported by many facts, so I'll spare them.
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@rebelann (112732)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Oct
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.
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@somewitch (1310)
23 Oct
@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.
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