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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7478786" data-attributes="member: 57112">Never mind that, by the time European settlers arrived in North America, many aboriginal tribes had long developed farms and agriculture.I mean, I get that the whole "Thanksgiving" story gets overly simplified, but one of the key points isn't that the Native Americans didn't show up with a whole bunch of food and had a big meal, but that they actually taught the colonists what crops to grow and how to grow them.So the idea that all (or even most) Native Americans were nomadic hunter-gatherers who didn't really employ the land so white settlers essentially moved in to empty space and asserted squator's rights would be yet another example of poor research, were it not for the fact that calling it "poor research" would be acknowledging any sort of research occurred at all, of which I am still extremely skeptical.</blockquote>