The past will always tell what will happen in the future. There will be wars, death, crime, and even hatred between the people. If it happens once, it will happen again. I speak even before humans could even speak. Before, there was only one species of humans. Hundreds of thousands of years in the past there were the Homo sapiens and the Homo erectus. These two species were different in many ways. For instance, the Homo sapiens are the modern man who can adapt more easily and were much smarter than the Homo erectus (the upright man). They lived in the same period and when they came into contact, they fought over the land. The modern man won because he was superior to the Homo erectus in speed and agility.
On the contrary, they were not much different. Homo erectus had developed ways to use tools and were as much advanced as the Homo sapiens, but lacked the social aspect to modern life. What I am trying to say is that, before humans had developed a written language, there were conflicts between them of who was more superior to the other. Thus, when you look back to the American Indian Wars, there seems to be a direct relationship to the fighting and turmoil.
The Europeans had to think of them as not human, to make them seem characterless, that way they would have no regrets to conquer them. There was many-recorded writing about the Native Americans on whether they were minor farmers or if they were great farmers who brought great surplus. In addition, there was some on how the Native Americans were so hostile that they would kill and scalp n enemy just to become a man, when some writing spoke of how they were perfect and did not kill. Both of them are very wrong, but together post a real aspect to the Natives world, i.e., if the Natives had killed their enemies, there would be no more culture because there would be no people to support it. Also, if they did not kill how would they have protected their lands from others (like the Europeans) and feed their people? In addition, if the Natives were such bad farmers how could they have fed and taught the Pilgrims how to farm on a day we celebrate? Also, if they were such great farmers and took up so much land with the farming, why did the Native Americans still have to scavenge for food? The reality portrayed on the Native Americans is skewed in both ways. The truth is not one of the other, but lies between the two.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
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