A good read for bofmgeograpy
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 8:44 pm
Hey bofmgeography, your mound builder preaching is racist.
http://ampersand.wustl.edu/archaeologic ... and-hoaxes
http://ampersand.wustl.edu/archaeologic ... and-hoaxes
tapirrider wrote:Hey bofmgeography, your mound builder preaching is racist.
http://ampersand.wustl.edu/archaeologic ... and-hoaxes
GREAT article, tapirrider!
Fritz says, “Until the 1890s, most Americans, including members of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences and learned people across the world, believed that there had been a non-Native-American mound-builder race. And that was inherently a racist notion that the Native Americans were too savage, too barbaric, and too lazy to have built the Mississippian mounds and all the other spectacular mounds in eastern North America. You can get quotes from all over the place that the Native Americans were incapable. There was even a state geologist of Illinois who wrote that the mounds were natural glacial features and that they had nothing to do with Native Americans. So that’s a very solid example of racism.”
I think it's unfortunate that bofmgeography probably likes that his theories are racist. I think he has a belief that Native Americans were just not smart enough to accomplish the things that they obviously did accomplish.
Irrespective of undeniable evidence, he likes to believe that someone else did the work. "I don't care if it's true, it's what I believe."
