>What a sad commentary on human beings. We are solely motivated by greed,
>even to the exclusion of a survival instinct. Our entire population might
>be eradicated because greed is more important than environmental concerns.
At least one population was wiped out by greed: Newfoundland's settlers
hired Mic Mac Indians from Nova Scotia to come in and exterminate the local
Beothuk Indians. I doubt there was much contact or enmity between the
tribes before that, there is a *lot* of water between Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia. The Mic Macs just did it for the bounty.
people. The last one died of disease about 100 years ago. Aside, they
probably had some Viking ancestry -- there was a Viking village at L'ance
aux Meadows in Newfoundland almost 500 years before Columbus set sail.
Sean Morgan