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There's a book about that, and how the Canadian government deliberately allowed Indigenous peoples in the Prairies to starve after the bison were hunted off the land. I haven't read it but it got a lot of attention when it came out. https://www.amazon.ca/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967
There's actually a really cool cookbook by an indigenous author by the name of Sean Sherman. It's called the Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen and it ENTIRELY avoids European ingredients. Trying a few recipes it's quite good, even if some of the ingredients are a hassle to procure
Amazon link here: https://www.amazon.com/Sioux-Chefs-Indigenous-Kitchen/dp/0816699798
One thing I haven't seen yet in the comments here is that although disease caused mass death, it is also reductionist to say the mass deaths of American indigenous were solely war or solely disease. The two work hand-in-hand and the conditions created by colonization and forced migration later on exacerbated the effects of disease and prevented recovery. Source
> He claims that the native Americans did not actually live in harmony with nature
This is just a really stupid 'rebuttal' because no historian claims this. The myth is also racist noble savage stereotypes that attempt to portray indigenous people as uniquely environmentally sound. It is not even unique because the original European settlers also wondered at how the Americas were an unspoiled Eden and the Indians were too innocent and stupid to cultivate the land.
Congrats on finding relief for your painful feet and freeing yourself of expensive conventional treatments that may or may not actually work.
Please keep in mind that sufficient strengthening of your lower legs (muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) for successful long term transition to zero drop shoes can take a long time. For some it can take several months. For some it can take years.
So be careful not to push yourself too hard too fast. Because if the usual pattern holds true, the next step in your evolution could be metatarsal stress fractures and chronic Achilles pain.
Edit: You might also check out Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is you haven't yet.
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307279189
That's not even close to true, this whole "they all died before contact with Europeans" is mostly a myth.
If anyone is interested in reading more:
https://old.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2u4d53/myths_of_conquest_part_seven_death_by_disease/
https://www.amazon.ca/Beyond-Germs-Native-Depopulation-America/dp/081653554X
>There is no question that European colonization introduced smallpox, measles, and other infectious diseases to the Americas, causing considerable harm and death to indigenous peoples. But though these diseases were devastating, their impact has been widely exaggerated. Warfare, enslavement, land expropriation, removals, erasure of identity, and other factors undermined Native populations. These factors worked in a deadly cabal with germs to cause epidemics, exacerbate mortality, and curtail population recovery.
Not insensitivity. Just uneducated. We know you dont see anything wrong with it. Obviously. America doesmt teach this in their schools. See your family was british while my family are Algonquin. Your ancestors were responsible for the worst genocide in the history of the world and now you dress up like the people and culture you tried to destroy for fucking parties. Its not like blackface as blackface represents a time when when people would rather dress as stereotypical black characters in film than hire a black person. Dressing up like a native chief is akin to a german dressing up like a Rabbi. Which i feel is much worse. Its a little early to get into this but here are some links to a few books to help your mind grow.
https://www.amazon.ca/American-Holocaust-Conquest-New-World/dp/0195085574
https://www.amazon.ca/American-Genocide-California-Catastrophe-1846-1873-ebook/dp/B01EUYN5IU
Hope this will help.
Well to get Jungian on you for a sec, snakes are a widespread symbol of rebirth. They are associated with a very ancient mother goddess too.
Serpents are also a big ayahuasca/DMT motif.
Seems like a pretty powerful "big changes coming" dream, and in a good way. Getting away from constriction, abuse, or trauma. Jack Sparrow is a pretty good Trickster god, too, and the tricksters are there to spring us out of jail.
I'd say the powers are on your side. Go forth and be fearless and awesome.
If you are into learning about different cultures, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is an great choice for you. It's the #1 Best Seller in Track & Field on Amazon, so it has quite the reputation. I actually encountered the Tarahumara in an anthropology course during undergrad, as they are pretty heavily studied by sociocultural and physical anthropologists. Here's a section from the Tarahumara Wikipedia: > The Tarahumara word for themselves, Rarámuri, means "runners on foot" or "those who run fast" in their native tongue according to some early ethnographers like Norwegian Carl Lumholtz, though this interpretation has not been fully agreed upon. With widely dispersed settlements, these people developed a tradition of long-distance running up to 200 miles (320 km) in one session, over a period of two days through their homeland of rough canyon country, for inter-village communication and transportation and hunting. Their running in sandals are described in the book Born to Run.
I like the books 1491 and American Holocaust (not about america holocausting the natives, but goes into the entire story of how there was a holocaust of North and South Americans and how it happened starting with Spain and Portugal.)
Videos are hard to find on the topic as people always think you are accusing them personally anytime you talk about the subject. . . It always gets downvotes here.
I would just search those topics, but I remember a video about this very topic from a european bbc professor who also did the Carthage Holocaust video series. He did the lucifer/devil stuff and how it changed around the time of 1492. But I haven't been able to find it for years.
You even listen to Terrence McKenna?? Lol you'll be fine! I say go for it.
The thing about Terrence McKenna is that, like his brother Dennis said,if he's right about even 1% of his claims, that's a very important thing in the world.
I read a book once on ayahausca and DNA where this geneticist did an anthropology thing where he went and did ayahuasca with tribes in South America to scientifically prove a connection between ayahausca and DNA. It's a VERY interesting read. He does a great job at dumbing it down to laymen's terms so that someone who's not a scientist can read the book and understand it. Then the second half of the book is all works cited. Sources for every single claim he makes during the book. So if someone wanted to they could see proof for all the things he was claiming. He does great at not adding any of his personal beliefs into the book as well, it is purely scientific. It's called the cosmic serpent : Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge https://www.amazon.com/dp/0874779642/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_5QgMBbG18AQY8
Not sure how accurate it is but the book "Born to Run" is actually all about this. I really enjoyed it.
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307279189
In it it explains that humans, when properly conditioned and with good running form, can run hundreds of miles at a time. Not faster than, but longer than any other land animal.
You could really mess with their heads for Thanksgiving dinner by telling them you're making Indian food, but actually make Native American food: https://www.amazon.com/Sioux-Chefs-Indigenous-Kitchen/dp/0816699798
Perchè questa era una classe molto alta (graduate school) allora si stà parlando delle ragioni complesse che hanno cominciato il razzismo Bianco/Nero nel mondo. Questa non è una conversazione che si ha frequentamente, perche si parla di World History, qualcosa che tanti qui non conoscono e non sono interessati.
Questa informazione è scritta in questo libro :
https://www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Peoples-History-ReVisioning-American/dp/0807057835
Ecco perchè era anche peggio. Questo è il libro che hanno usato per spiegare la storia dell'Europa.
From your first comment:
>By 1700, it was more like 350,000, mostly due to the unintentional spread of diseases brought by the Europeans. So in many instances, the land occupied by Europeans wasn’t so much ceded or taken as it was simply vacant. They were settling a continent whose original occupants had died off.
This unintentional spread of disease by Europeans is essentially a meme that has been propagated by people like Diamond in Guns Germs and Steel and really downplays how Europeans actively spread diseases through conquest, forced removals and slavery. Beyond Germs covers this in detail.
The conquest of North America was not by default. The Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica from the Aztecs required the help of a lot of Indian allies. The Spanish then proceded to fight a lot of wars for control over North America. Like the Chichimeca War where the Spanish had to sue for peace. Or the Pueblo Revolt where the Spanish were kicked out of New Mexico. Or fighting the Maya for 2 centuries. The Spanish would have loved if they had conquered North America by defualt.
Reminds me of this book. https://www.amazon.ca/Cosmic-Serpent-DNA-Origins-Knowledge/dp/0874779642
I read it about 10 years ago when I was writing a paper about peyote use and my prof suggested I look into some of the wacky stuff published about indigenous drug use for perspective. Don't remember much of it, but drug use leading to an intuitive understanding of the double helix as the fundamental life encoding system was definite a part of it. Peterson probably read it.
Have you read The Teachings of Don Juan series? You could find some background on Mexican folklore related to Nahuals, skinchangers, witches, elementals, dreamquest besides some other stuff.
From the Aztecs I really like and Tlacanexquilli and not Mexican folklore, Peruvian I believe, but the imbunche is terrifying and could be adapted.
do you think the deaths in the trails of tears were the extent of the ethnic cleansing committed by the US govt?
maybe start here its an oldie but a goodie https://www.amazon.com/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=7f423571-7a5b-43b6-acc8-50c4cfd65d7d
Not a lot of them, small denominator, and of those who do, many drink.
It's a shame what happened to them. Look into their history, it's really fascinating and relevant to Asian Americans.
I'm reading this now:
https://www.amazon.com/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846
When the white man came, they were helpful to the white man, generous, said "it's ok, we'll share." But the white man kept claiming more and more of their territories, offering them treaties, then straight up breaking them.
The white man would take advantage of divisions in their communities, side with one to beat the other, and then defeat the tribe that remained.
Some of the white men would take Native wives. The dynamics are sort of the same with Asians. Some of the men who married native women were the second-rate, less-desirable, small white men. They were kind of the weebs, sympathetic to Natives. Other Native women married white men and were used as go-betweens as the whites tried to subjugate the Natives.
Some of the Natives had half-breed sons, who sided with the white man and were used to make inroads to destroying the red man. All along, the red man was pretty laidback, trusting the white man, not making a big deal about divisions until it was too late.
Some of the Natives accepted their second-class status and tried hard to prove themselves to the white man. Ely S. Parker, the first Native American to hold the post of U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, reminded me of the path of a lot of Asian Americans.
He gave up his name, converted to Christianity. Prevented from taking the Bar Exam because of his race, became an excellent civil engineer. Mocked for his lack of English as a boy, he learned to speak and wrote English so well that he was asked to draft some of the key documents at the end of the civil war.
Friendly reminder that diseases only killed so many because people were forced onto the worst possible lands and deprived of the community and resources which allowed them to withstand plagues in the past.
The conquest was helped by disease but disease was helped by conquest.
Read this
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Germs-Depopulation-America-Archaeology/dp/081653554X
> Well I don’t know where you got that fact from, but it is simply not true.
It is though. Here's a well-sourced book you can read to learn all about it
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's book goes into great detail about everything mentioned and more in its last chapters
Thomas King's book describes this very well too, I find this book more digestible than my previous suggestion. Very short and written in a narrative tone.
Let me know if you'd like more sources in case those are too difficult for you :)
Define "KIDS". How and what students are taught should definitely expand as they get older. As a junior in high school, for example, my history teacher gave me Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to read for a book report. Most definitely NOT the "fairy tale" version of American history.
I haven’t purchased this cookbook yet, but it has excellent reviews.
The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen https://www.amazon.com/dp/0816699798/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_10H1B1BNH5MJMWYGYHBY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
This fantastic book goes into great detail about shamanism and how the plants from different areas spoke to the tribesmen about how to make the perfect ayahuasca brew!
https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Serpent-DNA-Origins-Knowledge/dp/0874779642
I know this sounds crazy and like a lot of work, but before you go buy another pair of running shoes and run in them, you should read a book called "Born to Run" by Christopher Mcdougle. It's available hereon Amazon for the Kindle.
To very briefly summarize the relevant part of it to OP's post, a couple generations of doctors and orthopedic surgeons ago in the 1970's, a start-up company called Nike created a marketing campaign all geared around the idea that our feet are wrong, and that Nike had the answers and would solve all the problems. They created the ideas that you need all this extra support everywhere because Nature doesn't know how to build a foot. Nevermind that we've been running since your great-great-great-great....grandma fell out of a tree and got chased by a lion.
As a result of everyone thinking that they needed all these fancy shoes, it gave rise to a startling increase in the number of orthapedic surgeons performing countless operations on knees, hips, feet, etc, all caused by messing up the way your body was designed to run.
Then the author gets into a really crazy tribe of Native Americans living in these canyons in Mexico who run 50-100 mile races routinely just for fun, and they do it wearing little sandals they cut out of tires, and they beat the hell out of everyone else they race against.
You should check out Carlos Castaneda. This act sounds like Don Genaro showing off for apprentices. Other acts of men (and women) of power include scrying, projecting, guarding, and even being in two places at once. The best starting place The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671600419/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_ZK8BPEN2Q2QWA0246X91
That page is out of date, look this: https://www.amazon.ca/Beyond-Germs-Native-Depopulation-America/dp/081653554X
The idea of lsot of 90% of population without contact with europeans is very false,what drove the native population so low was warfare, slavery, population displacement famine and genocide, in many ocasions done by european hands