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Quote Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier
So no KFC or Pizza Hut then
The Indians preferred bison. No profit for the bankers so exterminate, exterminate..... Custer and his gang/Daleks obliged, for 40 pieces of silver.
The aboriginal peoples did not favour bison. Some plains natives did. They followed the bison herds. There were no bison on the coasts where the majority of aboriginal people lived. The coastal natives fished. The interior aboriginals were usually nomadic, typically moving into a region and killing off all the edible animals and then moving on. As human beings, they were just as damaging to the ecosystems they invaded as the Europeans who invaded North America. Interior aboriginal people favoured slavery too, as they used their prisoners as sex slaves, or bearers. The male prisoners were typically killed off or ransomed back to their enemies. Native tribes often went to war with each other raiding others for food. It is a myth that native peoples lived in harmony with the land. Because of their smaller number, the damage they did was not as large as the hordes of settlers who followed. However, natives were humans and humans have a bad habit of destroying the planet wherever they exist.