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MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK.3
I love visiting the
great National Parks in this country (like you couldn’t tell?) While I respect
the mission of the Park Service to protect and maintain these great treasures
for future generation to visit, I abhor the “Political Correctness” that infects the Park Service.
Exploding the MYTH
One example of “PC” in
the Park Service is perpetuating the MYTH that the Verde dwellers “disappeared
mysteriously,” as though a spaceship came to take them away. I liked one docent’s
private post, in which he claimed, as a Native American and a Puebloan, the
Verde dwellers didn’t disappear—they moved away because the Mesa no longer met
their needs. These Puebloans used their building skills to build the Puebloan
communities in the canyons and valley of northern New Mexico and Arizona. This
migration is typical for small groups who depend upon the surrounding area for
their food and shelter. If the food source diminishes--they move. If the area is
too cold, or prone to flood--they move. No spaceship involved.
Exploding another MYTH
The PC “snowflakes” in
the US like to believe this country needs to get back to the land, like it was before the (evil) white man came
to this country. There are posts about a “college professor" telling her
students that before the (evil) “white man” came to America, the Native
Americans lived in peace and harmony—the (evil) white man taught them war and
scalping.
I admit, the original
“domino theory” of not letting Vietnam fall to the ChiComs, actually came from
a military historian who used the Iroquois Confederation as an example of
tribal displacement causing a “domino effect.” The Iroquois Confederation drove
smaller, less war-like tribes away to protect the Iroquois' natural resources (food
supply), but this happened before the white man came. The coming of the white
man exacerbated the problem of limited natural resources,
Exploding Another MYTH
Another element of the
“snowflake culture” believes the Native American lived in perfect harmony with
the land, acting as a good steward to protect and preserve. TOTAL BALONEY!
Mesa Verde is the
perfect tool to demonstrate this fallacy. Even though the Park Service lists
the types of bones found in trash dumps of succeeding periods, their
“snowflake” mentality doesn’t allow them to connect the dots. At the bottom of
the trash dump, they found elk and buffalo bones. In the era just before the Early
Puebloan “magically disappeared,” the Park Service found only squirrel and groundhog
(marmot) bones. The diminishing size of the animals is evidence the natives destroyed all mammal life in the Mesa’s
ecosystem. The Early Puebloan's left the Mesa because of a food shortage.
Similar evidence exists
about their agricultural deficits. They farmed the same area with the same
crop, corn and beans, for 300 hundred years—these crops drained the soil of all
nutrients. A few of the Early Puebloans migrated away to find areas with better
natural resources, or they would have starved to death. These weren’t stupid
people. Once Verde dwellers heard from the first people to move, they began to
understand the Mesa could no longer support their large community. The Verde
Dwellers moved, and having learned, they formed the numerous smaller Pueblo
cultures that dot northern New Mexico and Arizona, rather one large community like they had on the Mesa.
These two examples
demonstrate the Native Americans DID NOT live in “perfect harmony” with the
land. My purpose is NOT to belittle the Native American, who has been treated
badly by my government. My purpose is to expose the PC mentality in the Park
Service that collects information on an ancient people, but refuses to connect
the dots because it doesn’t fit their make-believe world of PC. Nature does
what nature does. Man plans—God laughs.
Oh Darn. I can't get the pics to align with the text-- next time?
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