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09-APR-2005 J.S.Nasche

"I" is for "Indian"

Tallahassee / Quincy, Florida

Native American Peoples were erroneously called “Indians” by those first European explorers that were trying to find a westward watercourse to India, land of spices, silk and other valuable trade goods. Of course, they weren’t “Indians”, but Timuquan, Seminole, Cree, Apache, Cherokee, Navajo, Choctaw, Mohicans, Nez Pierce, Aztec, Creek, Micmack and hundreds of other tribes and clans of peoples that had been on the North American continent for thousands of years. Indeed, the only thing those European explorers truly “discovered” was that they were not alone in the world. Do you see the “Indian Arrowhead” here? It’s actually a massive spear projectile point, pulled from the bones of a killed and butchered Mastodon near Ocala Florida that was carbon dated to ten thousand years ago. Think about it, … eight thousand years before the birth of Christ, some human being, … a man, … carefully fashioned this vital tool and weapon from a piece of stone to use to feed his family. (In most Native American cultures, it was forbidden a female should even touch a projectile point. A truly “man” thing.) I wonder sometimes, if there is anything, … ANYTHING that I will ever make or handle that will be found by some far off archeologist ten thousand years from now. I suspect not.



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Guest 13-Apr-2005 12:51
A very sobering thought, John. I can't help thinking the World would be a better place if we all considered our effect upon it and what we leave behind us.