Paleolithic cultures necessarily live in perfect harmony not only with nature, but with each other, right? If there is any conflict in such cultures, it must be due to residential schools or the 60s sweep or some such. So what explains deadly conflict that occurred over a century prior to European settlement, the memories of which continued to create divisions between aboriginal communities well into the present?
They show elders relaying their tales of ambush and murder while in the midst of daily activities, cutting up a seal or cleaning fish on the beach.
One elder tells of a slaughter so extensive that the Inuit called the place where the rotting bodies were left Annarnituq – Bloated Island. It’s visible in the distance as a boy runs toward it through the wild grass.
There is enough residual enmity that people in the area convened in 2011 for a ceremony initiated by Cree trapper Ron Sheshamush to try to heal the rift once and for all.
Jean Jacques Rousseau has much to answer for.
“Paleolithic cultures necessarily live in perfect harmony not only with nature, but with each other, right?”
Where did you get that idea, Disney?
Fighting each other to the death and systemic mass murder kept their numbers down so their own populations didn’t have a chance to overharvest and kill all the caribou and mammals and therefore starve to death as often as they did.
Their constant warfare / raiding / slaving was evolutionary and natural.
Pauline Johnson wore a scalp from some other tribe as part of her costume.
It’s the circle of lyyyyfee…..
This noble savage myth is so much horseshit.
At the following link, scroll down to “The Battle Scene”. It’s a drawing & description of a petroglyph at Writing On Stone provincial park in southern Alberta covering an Indian battle. FFS, even they recorded the violence.
https://myfavoritewesterns.com/2018/10/23/writing-on-stone-provincial-park-a-photo-essay-part-1/
I’m very familiar with those. Ran amongst them in my childhood. Now you can’t legally get anywhere near them without a government guide. I was told that the best ones were further south in an unknown location
When I was in Northern Georgia I visited the ruins of fortifications of a past tribe in Fort Mountain State Park. Almost nothing is known about the builders. The Cherokee called them the moon eyed people because they had blond to white hair, beards, round faces and blue eyes. The Cherokee legend is very open about how the Cherokee killed all moon eyed people and took over their land. One explanation is that they were there from preColumbian times and were European in origin. Naturally that is not a popular explanation.
To me the stone fortification looked exactly like how they did things in Ireland.
I lost a friend when way back he stated how noble it was that the plains Indians used the whole buffalo… no consumer waste like we have today.
I asked the question… Maybe after they killed a sick and dying or wounded animal in their bare feet with a rock and a stick they might have been happy to not starve for as long as possible.
His head exploded, my former friend.
“Had a use for every part of the Buffalo” is not the same as “used every part of every buffalo”
If it takes a modern butcher most of a day to process a whole cow by himself, with steel knives, a hoist and a bandsaw, there is no way a bunch of squaws wielding stone tools could have used every part out in the field.
They took the hide and the choicest bits of meat and left the rest for the flies. Just like the white man.
Right, could he explain all the bones at the bottom of the jumps?
At Smashed-in-head-buffalo-jump, entire herds were driven off a cliff, and only the tongues taken.
This site was used for thousands of years.
There are many sites like this.
My grandpa had a really old stone tomahawk from one of the plains tribes. It had two human scalps tied to it. Neither one was from a white person.
Scalping is unique to NA native culture. It exists nowhere else.
They claim that Europeans brought the practice to N. America, however, a site excavated in N. Dakota found a village destroyed about 1300 AD, and the victims had been scalped, and mutilated. 500 bodies were found, about 25% of the estimated population of the village.
This is all covered in Healey’s book ‘War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.’
https://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savage/dp/0195119126
Like they fought prairie fires with buffalo bladders of water on foot.
https://martyrs-shrine.com/about-the-martyrs/
This is in Ontario, The Martyrs Shrine. We know the Brutal History of the Iroquois destroying the Wendats.
The Indians tortured several of the Jesuits that came to spread the word of Jesus to the Savage Indian.
Savages, they were.
In historical times there were some brutal Indian wars. In the 1870 Battle of Belly River in southern Alberta 500 to 800 Blackfeet met a similar number of Cree and killed 200 to 400 Cree at a loss of 40 Blackfeet. The deaths in this single battle was several times the total losses in the Northwest Rebellion, the only significant war with white people.
And guess which one is taught in school, and which is ignored?
Even the people of Lethbridge, where the battle was fought, have never heard of it.
The red Indian hated the Inuit and killed him at every opportunity. They referred to the Inuit as the “meat eaters.”
The Inuit were shit scared of their southern brothers.
Read explorer Samuel Hearne’s account of the massacre at Bloody Falls. In 1771 Hearne’s crew of Chipewyan Indians surprised a group of about 20 Copper Indians fishing the Coppermine River and killed them all, women included. Hearne claimed he was powerless to stop his crew.
Eskimos and Indians are hardly “brothers”. They’re distinct races. The Churchill River was called the “Strangers’ River” by all the western Indians because it represented the southern limit of the range of the Eskimos, and there were ancient traditions of meeting them at the mouth of the river. It was coincidence that the first Europeans also landed there.
Only a few Indian peoples actually had regular contact with Eskimos. To the rest they were a legend, at most.
They killed the Inuit because the Inuit were even more violent than they were.
The Inuit migration was very recent. They only arrived in Greenland after 1,000 AD.
They took over large swaths of territory by killing all in their path. This changed when the southern tribes began acquiring firearms.
This sounds a lot like Scotland around 1600 and 1700.
Well, the Scots are bloody savages, so it stands to reason.
My ancestors had balls today’s crop, not so much.
There have been battles between various tribes as long as said tribes inhabited North America. C Lyons wrote a serious of travel books (as well as “Trees, Flowers, an Shrubs”) about British Columbia. Well remember following those books when travelling and – certainly – battles amongst the various tribes were part of the history related.
The Blackfoot Confederacy didn’t take kindly to “intruders”. Natives from SE BC would head up through what is Highway 93 from BC to the Alberta boundary, and then down the Bow River to try to harvest a buffalo or two in the fall. They had to do this surreptitiously as would have been forced back had they been found out. The Cree are to the north in Alberta because they were pushed back by the Blackfoot Confederacy. And I’ve met natives who openly say that don’t get along with those from other tribes.
Take history. History of any people, any place, any era. People like to kill other people.
That’s a fact.
In history, it was relatively easy and many times welcome to kill.
So far, they did not kill Trump, though, no doubt they are working on it.
They would like to kill those that protested on the corridors of congress. So far they do their best to put them in prison for a long time.
If you watch the clips of the mass media cartel, they are provoking people on daily bases to kill, it is just a matter of time when it will happen.
They are using well tried and proven torture used by communists, https://rumble.com/v4h0onf-dc-gulag-where-j6ers-have-been-totured-into-plea-deals-to-frame-trump.html.
Communists in the center of Europe in the early 50’s of the past century used sleep deprivation, cry of a baby, whistles, loud noises to break down the same communists that started it, yes, they turned on their own, and then they killed them by a court decision.
If you don’t think it can happen in North America, just get a pint, sit back and watch.
The Heart lakes in Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan was originally called the Hanging Heart Lakes. Hearts of Blackfoot who strayed too far north and were massacred by the Crees. Their hearts were cut out and hung from the trees.