[Yorick]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: Yep. American Indians did import and cultivate corn. As JD says, it was a high mountain grass from Mexico. It was one of our first nonindigenous species invasions. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img] Wouldn't that make them Agrarian? Indians also burned the entire state of Kentucky every few years. Set the whole thing on fire. Was it to promote ground fertility or was it to ensure that none of the Indian nations bordering around Kentucky could ever inhabit Kentucky and increase their territory? Hmmm......

Australian plants need fire to germinate. I'm not sure what you guys have against Amerindians, but it sure seems like they made better use of the great plains than western civilisation. Only now are farmers looking at developing PERENNIAL crops, as opposed to ANNUAL crops, to replicate what thrives naturally. Again, it was you guys that wiped out the perennially feeding buffalo, replacing it with the cow. Consequently, looking at the population exodus, one wonders why you took it from the Indians in the first place.

From a Midnight Oil song about the Australian Aboriginie:

The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in forty five degrees The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share The time has come A fact's a fact It belongs to them Let's give it back How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning The time has come to say fairs fair to pay the rent, now to pay our share Four wheels scare the cockatoos From Kintore East to Yuendemu The western desert lives and breathes In forty five degrees The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share The time has come A fact's a fact It belongs to them Let's give it back How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning