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To: Farmboy who wrote (488542)	5/24/2012 7:54:08 PM
From: average joe	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794327

I hate to suggest books but this one is a dandy about how life was when the Spaniards first showed up. I literally could not put it down. amazon.com It is only a racist white fantasy that makes us think that Indians were somehow in harmony and in balance with nature. They were as greedy and bickering and drunk as any European nation. The movie Apocalypto is a good indicator. imdb.com I like to fantasize about what life was like before the first dems rolled off the assembly line! "We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country." Thomas Jefferson "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson

To: Farmboy who wrote (488542)	5/24/2012 9:33:29 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794327

I imagine though the Indians themselves were guilty of some 'self destructive' behavior, since, like us in many cases today, the different tribes didn't seem to get along real well. Slavery was quite popular among a number of tribes.