Mockingbird Song
and demanding of resources to permit a century and a half ’s wait, as it were, to reuse farming sites. A scholar with observatio ...
Smith’s famous observation of Powhatan planting time, hundreds of miles north of the Guale, represented swidden after all. Wheth ...
pruning of tree branches competing for sunlight. Later, actual cultivation appeared—transplantation and reseeding. Thus sunflowe ...
miles inland, the yaupon and black tea appear, astoundingly, in Bartram’s Travels. William was among the Cherokees in the mounta ...
chobee, the Everglades, and the limestone flats around present-day Miami, but their home bases, sites of their major and minor t ...
was beheaded, and the head was presented to an effigy called an ‘‘idol’’ by a visiting Spanish priest. The idol, in turn, consum ...
suring future hunts and catches. The frugality with which Plains peoples used the bison—they left nothing on the ground, using m ...
asserted a broader native tradition of fertilizing with a sort of herring called menhaden, however. Menhaden are intensely nette ...
that much must have been left to rot after egregiously nonconservationist slaughters. Thus native American history began in wast ...
animals to oblivion: great flightless birds, hippopotamuses, giant tortoises, and lemurs of perhaps a dozen and a half species, ...
humans. A bear actually sacrificed himself so his guts might be made into bowstrings. Animals also inflicted rheumatism and othe ...
of deerskins and substitute laborers for town and village men now for- ever away. In the eighteenth century, declining deer popu ...
from’’ the herd, ‘‘who, out of humour and experiment, trained his dog up from a puppy to this business: he follows his master’s ...
ally abandoned their Mississippian culture and thrown themselves into the getting of skins and European goods, the figure increa ...
Ponce de Leon famously landed in northeastern Florida in April . Later, down in southern Florida, Ponce’s men were immediate ...
actually titledAmerican Holocaust(by David Stannard). The questions were, simply, Just how many innocent natives died as a resul ...
try of Europeans and Africans, as it would remain. They (at least the Euro- peans) called it virgin land, a paradise, an Eden en ...
All I want in God’s creation Is a pretty wife And a big plantation— Way down In the Indian nation —Popular ditty, especially in ...
Andrew Jackson and his successor effectively engineered this final solution, yeoman democracy was lost, and Georgia’s vast lower ...
appropriate to specialized crops for European and world markets: sugar (most important of all), tobacco, cacao, coffee, tea, ric ...
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