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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 1706433" data-attributes="member: 9002">Just to clear up "Native American" mythsJust to be perfectly clear about this, this sort of watered down eco-conservation was most distinctly not a part of 99% of "Native American" indian culture pre white man.  It is a tired artifact of Western civilization.  Much has been written about it.  It's no more "real" than the claim that blacks  are less intelligent than white due to head circumference, or etc.North America featured a vast number of NA (Native American) cultures, including NA Indian slavery (a West Coast speciality), and seasonal near starvation among many tribes in the East (particularly the SouthEast, surprisingly).  Not many things were let go to waste because, well, if you are hungry you will eat anything and everything.  But make no mistake about it, if a hungry tribe of NA's came across the "last" 10 purple-footed deer in North America,  the deer would be killed and eaten in a heartbeat.  Most happily, in fact.Obviously, those people most able to think globally are those who are not under environmental stress from heat, cold, predators, disease, and hunger.  Don't ask a tribe that depends on whale meat not to kill a whale.  YOU can afford to "save the whales," they can't.Yes, it's murky.But at base it's absurd to claim there is a "Native American" anything (unless you are talking in generalities sufficiently vague as to be meaningless, for example, "Native Americans" did not use rockets, which is true but trivial).If you want to bring up a touchy-feely theory, like you did, just be honest about it and say "European-Americans were very interested in reclaiming what they saw as the  Eden-like pre-colonized life of Native American Indians (since shifted to reservations), and cooked up various myths about them, exploited significantly in the 1960's and 1970's by middle-class Americans seeking something real (and turning instead, amusignly, to a fiction)."  Or something like that.  Just leave the Native Americans out of it.  Yes, I have significant NA blood myself, if that matters to you.</blockquote>

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