The whole "in tune with Nature" image of the Indians has been idealized way too much. It wasn't all Pocohantas standing by a waterfall as birds swoop around her.
The 2nd to last panel is questionable. I've read where anthropologists investigated the sites of some buffalo runs and evidence suggests the Indians left the majority of the corpses to rot, probably because it would have been too messy an effort to dig thru it.
I don't mean this as a judgment against the Indian, but against the way others have so idealized them.
It's interesting how the Plains tribes went from being completely demonized to being glorified, with only rare instances of being regarded as just a human culture with its strengths and failings like any other.
The whole idea that the Indians never wasted anything at all is a good example. I've talked to people who seriously thought that every single part of every buffalo was put to good use. When I mentioned buffalo jump sites like Head-Smashed-In where hundreds of bison would be stampeded off a cliff at once, and where only a small portion of the meat, hides, bones etc would be harvested, they thought I was making it up.
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I don't mean this as a judgment against the Indian, but against the way others have so idealized them.
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The whole idea that the Indians never wasted anything at all is a good example. I've talked to people who seriously thought that every single part of every buffalo was put to good use. When I mentioned buffalo jump sites like Head-Smashed-In where hundreds of bison would be stampeded off a cliff at once, and where only a small portion of the meat, hides, bones etc would be harvested, they thought I was making it up.
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