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Putin bromance has US intelligence officials fearing second Trump term
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Indigenous Americans had a wide array of cultures and beliefs and art. But they were not all gentle farmers and nomads who lived in harmony with the land. They were just normal human beings, with all the amazing and terrible things that go along with that.
That goes against my understanding of native culture
Considering I gave specific examples, it sounds like you need a better understanding.
Also, "native culture" is not a thing. There was no unified culture.
I think people are pushing back against that specific passage because it goes a step too far. Both Europeans and the various native tribes of the Americas knew how responsible hunting works. We have bag limits today for that reason, and Europeans of the old country were familiar with the practice.
US government policies on the buffalo were a deliberate genocide, and I don't think you'll disagree with that. The phrase "no reason to believe they wouldn’t have shot every buffalo in sight" implies the tribes would have done the same, and that's just not true.
Would all the tribes have done it? No. That's the issue here. There was no unified agreement amongst the various indigenous peoples of North America. There were thousands of languages, religions and cultures.
So would the Blackfeet, who basically believed that all bison must die for the good of their people? Probably they would have.
Would the Crow, who hunted more sustainably? Probably not.
So I admit I was being far too general when I said 'they.' I should have specified that certain groups would have been fine with wiping out buffalo and others were more sustainable hunters.
Oddly enough, De Soto, who spent a lot of time wandering around what is now the Southeastern U.S., didn't report buffalo there. So it's also unclear how widely-ranged they were in the first place. There's an author named Charles C. Mann who wrote a well-regarded book about pre-Columbian contact called "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" and he posits that the vast buffalo herds later reported in the Great Plains were actually the result of the mass die-off of indigenous peoples through European diseases returning the plains to grassland when they had previously been farmed. So it could be that there were also far less buffalo in the Americas before European contact (although most certainly more than today).
And no, I would not deny the reason why the mass kill-off later happened. It was one of the many genocides the United States perpetrated against the indigenous peoples of the Americas.