You certainly manage to extract a lot of unintended meaning from a few
words. When I said they migrated between different
farming/hunting/fishing areas the difference might be no more than a few
miles and certainly not even the distance from Boston to New York. The
point is that they wandered over areas much larger than a New
Englander's farm. To the English, since they didn't stay permanently in
one spot, they didn't "own" the land.
But nothing I said should be construed to mean that there wasn't plenty
of malice... there was a lot of that to go around on both sides. It's
just much easier to be malicious when you can attach some rationale to
your behavior.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/23/2010 12:48 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> But I should have been even more specific since my source really
>> only discusses land "transactions" in Massachusetts and perhaps
>> Connecticut.
>
> Perhaps costal natives were somewhat migratory, but the nearby
> Iroquis Confederacy, an agreement between six permanently-located
> tribes, heavily influenced the US Constitution -- hardly what I would
> call "a huge cultural divide."
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> Wikipedia maps show that the tribes in the region generally stayed
> within areas much smaller than a modern-day state. Calling them
> "migratory" is no more true than calling an investment banker who
> regularly travels from Boston to New York "migratory."
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> I think there was more malice and less misunderstanding involved than
> Chuck is willing to admit.
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> "Honest, we were just trying to help them keep warm! We didn't know
> those blankets had Smallpox in them!"
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> ---------------- FDA assertions that raw milk is "inherently
> dangerous and should not be consumed" serve as a smoke screen for
> legislation that helps centralize the dairy industry and eliminate
> competition from small independent farmers. -- Ron Schmid :::: Jan
> Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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