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To: NOW who wrote (91233)	11/20/2011 2:16:58 PM
From: E. Charters	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 233790

You are part of the group, team, clique, subculture. You are supposed to absorb the holy mantras of the great unwashed and the dominant greybeards of the socializing group instead of synthesizing your own mythologies by being academic. IOW, who made you the perfesser? On a serious note: Injuns. north American natives, Amerindians, First Nations, Aboriginals, or members of AU, did not at first seem to rely on barter, except in particular circumstances, which we view as exchange gifting. Hence the term Indian giver. If one gifted something the au verso was expected. Their dominant mode of existence was tribal participation, i.e. sharing. However they traded widely over 1000's of miles using the major waterways, such as the St. Lawrence, Sagenuay, Red River, Mississipi, Missouri, Columbia, Nahanni, and Coastal seas. What did they trade? In kind. For instance the flint trade which was from Labrador to Florida/Louisiiana by Canoe, took flint rock from the east coast of Canada down the Mississipi and up the Missouri by the L & C route, and across Canada via the Red River and the Sasktachewan and the GL's. This trade did not proceed by else than barter or exchange. It was not gifting. The fur trade, which started Canada was not by gift, but barter. Furs for food and supplies. The Vinland trade between Amerinjuns and Vikings was also barter. The Maya, the Moche, The Aztecs, the People of the Inca, in fact all Mesoamericans and North Americans indulged in vast trade networks with other people's. The archeaologist ALL say they traded. They even speak of specific trades, such as the flint trade. However they rarely say what the quid of the pro quo was. In other words what did group trade for flint? There is no mention of a medium of exchange although the Indians so to speak did know wampum, although its representation after the colonial period was from beads the colonials gave them. The had shell beads before this. Was this wampum used as a medium? We know there was a slave trade along the west coast with the Haida. We know people amassed wealth. But they did not use totems for wampum, so what did they use? What was exchanged for what? I can't see the mesos exchanging furs with the northos, as the northos had both furs and flint. Some suggestions are chocolate, turquoise, seed, hides, clothing, bone tools, gut, watercraft, salt, etc.