Hey they did pretty OK for stone age tech. I'll give credit when its due. But yeah, the old world was light years ahead of them...in my opinion the old world was far, far behind in terms of religion. At least the natives killed, slaved because they wanted to not because "god" told them to etc. Sacrifices on the other hand...
The Phoenicians had a significant presence on the Mediterranean. And the Roman navy helped Rome expand all across the Mediterranean region. Couldn’t do that in a canoe.
The (largely white) indigenous activism in this country is so fucked
I could go on all day about this complex and multifaceted issue but because brevity is cash:
Absolutely cringe-inducing how, instead of using an example of indigenous people developing a cultural or technological solution which may be in any way unexpected or novel, they are just like LOL CANOE
MAN MAKE BOAT, MAN SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
What limo-wristed paternalistic bullshit
Saul Alinsky has a section in Rules for Radicals about encountering Canadian indigenous activists and their allies. Even if you hate Alinsky too much to read the rest of the book, please read that one section. I'm sure you'll get a mild kick out of it.
Indians on the pacific coast of BC created dugout canoes made from massive cedars, up to 70 feet long and 8 foot beams. They didn’t know about ribbing the canoes so often they would split apart on rough seas. The White man (my great great great uncle.) showed them how to rib the canoes properly. I highly doubt Indians were making birch bark hull canoes before any Whites showed them how to build a proper frame.
The craziest thing is there is some evidence that ancient Celts, and perhaps Carthage had visited North America. There are a few tribes with languages that are similar, some traces of an old Celtic writing system, and other links.
For decades academia wrote it off as quackery of one guy, but as time has gone on more people have accepted it might have happened.
If true, that makes the stone age stuff even more sad, because it would mean at some point they had access to greater technology, but somehow lost it.
Imagine showing your buddy the sweet canoe you just invented as the Santa Maria sails over the horizon.
Hey they did pretty OK for stone age tech. I'll give credit when its due. But yeah, the old world was light years ahead of them...in my opinion the old world was far, far behind in terms of religion. At least the natives killed, slaved because they wanted to not because "god" told them to etc. Sacrifices on the other hand...
The Phoenicians had a significant presence on the Mediterranean. And the Roman navy helped Rome expand all across the Mediterranean region. Couldn’t do that in a canoe.
The (largely white) indigenous activism in this country is so fucked
I could go on all day about this complex and multifaceted issue but because brevity is cash:
MAN MAKE BOAT, MAN SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
What limo-wristed paternalistic bullshit
I tend to strongly agree.
Here https://omegacanada.win/p/12iNQAFmBW/
Indians on the pacific coast of BC created dugout canoes made from massive cedars, up to 70 feet long and 8 foot beams. They didn’t know about ribbing the canoes so often they would split apart on rough seas. The White man (my great great great uncle.) showed them how to rib the canoes properly. I highly doubt Indians were making birch bark hull canoes before any Whites showed them how to build a proper frame.
The craziest thing is there is some evidence that ancient Celts, and perhaps Carthage had visited North America. There are a few tribes with languages that are similar, some traces of an old Celtic writing system, and other links.
For decades academia wrote it off as quackery of one guy, but as time has gone on more people have accepted it might have happened.
If true, that makes the stone age stuff even more sad, because it would mean at some point they had access to greater technology, but somehow lost it.