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<As a bit of conjecture, and IMHO, looking round the world now, as
well as
> the history of the UK, I would suggest that the idea of the native in
> harmony with the environment is a fantasy brought on by a combination of
> guilt on behalf of the American Settlers, and a bit of cunning by the
> natives.>
>
Right, and besides even if we (speaking as a European) did made the
amerindians more violent than their "noble" past, their got own back through
giving us things like potatos (would the Irish famine had have happened over
a native species?) and, IIRC the fatal strain of syphillis. Of course, that
doesn't compensate for the- what's the estimate?- 60 million dead lives lost
through colonialism in the Americas.
Vincent
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