From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 10:33:09 GMT
Hi Arlo, all,
Just wanted to pick up on something you said here:
>
> Just have to point out the HUGE myth in this. Nearly all primary sources from
> the first-wave or European settlers describe the Indian populations not as
> primitive nomadic foragers who did not comprehend "farming the same land", but
> as established civilized people who had agriculturally tamed many regions in
> the North East. Even in Guns, Germs and Steel the author mentions how "corn"-
> as it existed when Europeans arrived- was the product of generations of
> agricultural breeding and deliberate selection. Many tribes farmed the same
> land. It's only with latter waves of settlers, who wanted the Indians' land,
> that the whole nomadic savage myth was invented.
How does that last sentence relate to Pirsig's assertion (following Sidis) that the Indian character
was what shaped the Rousseauan 'noble savage' idea? Was it a different tribe or what?
Genuinely fascinated by all this.
Sam
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