Every once in a while I can open my third eye and see these places for the nature they were before being covered with a layer of asphalt. Like buffalo, old growth forest, insects, all that good shit. Its really sad to think about
I once went to an exhibit on the Cherokee when I was in college. There was all the stuff you expect to see including their efforts to assimilate with the colonizers (learning English, converting to Christianity) but at the end there was just a hallway full of photos from the local area today showing what we did with the lands after making those people walk to Oklahoma and it was all just strip mall shit like this. One was actually a massive Wal Mart just out in a field, not even the usual Gamestop next door.
Native American nations practiced intensive agricultural and ecological management for a very long time before Europeans paved anything. That gets forgotten a lot. There was never a "Pristine old growth natural forest" in America, there have always been people living here, managing the forests and the plains to produce the resources people needed to live.
Every once in a while I can open my third eye and see these places for the nature they were before being covered with a layer of asphalt. Like buffalo, old growth forest, insects, all that good shit. Its really sad to think about
I once went to an exhibit on the Cherokee when I was in college. There was all the stuff you expect to see including their efforts to assimilate with the colonizers (learning English, converting to Christianity) but at the end there was just a hallway full of photos from the local area today showing what we did with the lands after making those people walk to Oklahoma and it was all just strip mall shit like this. One was actually a massive Wal Mart just out in a field, not even the usual Gamestop next door.
Museums are cool and good.
Native American nations practiced intensive agricultural and ecological management for a very long time before Europeans paved anything. That gets forgotten a lot. There was never a "Pristine old growth natural forest" in America, there have always been people living here, managing the forests and the plains to produce the resources people needed to live.
Humans are invasive species, 100%, but I'd trade the local Walmart for some good ol' hunting the mega fauna to extinction any day