2015-12-15 16:33:58	+emmeka	so guys reading about this crazy groundnut plant and how first nations cultivated it I've been thinking about something
2015-12-15 16:34:40	+emmeka	the idea of a neolithic revolution in the Americas is uhhh... europeanized history, I think. It's an attempt to explain what happened here based on what happened in Mesopotamia.
2015-12-15 16:35:28	+emmeka	but rather than a clearcut transition to farming most first peoples, especially in the north, "wildcrafted" their surrounding environment into a sort of hybrid farm and game preserve.
2015-12-15 16:37:16	+emmeka	barrens and savannahs seeded to grain crops, beaver dams stalked with fish, rivers colonized by planting tubers and wildrice upriver, controlled brush fires to make turkey nesting grounds, plantations of herbs in the muskeg.
2015-12-15 16:39:03	+emmeka	agriculture as we know it in the new world - the three sisters - was more probably a reserve food system than the majority of food production.
2015-12-15 16:41:56	+emmeka	oh and uh speaking of first nations the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools came out today. Confirmed, documented deaths are at 3200 but the report suspects there are probably more plus inummerable cases of torture and rape.