> >To: "David A. Milanaik" <milanaik@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
> >From: luree@IslandNet.com (Luree Dell-Bryan)
> >Subject: Re: my heart
> >
> >Have you considered that the Indians lived on this land for thousands of
> years without polluting a stream, or destroying a rainforest, or causing the
> extinction of any species. Perhaps their pagan gods were more benevolent
> than your christian one?
This is not completely true. There is evidence that many large
herbivore species became
extinct at the same time as the arrival of man in the Americas. The
"Noble Savage" myth is somewhat exagerrated. Many native tribes have been
guilty of excessive hunting and fishing once they had the technologoy to
be able to do so.
Duane Hewitt