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- From: an6139@anon.penet.fi (Xager)
- Subject: Re: Columbus/Slaves
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192608.21965@fuug.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:59:00 GMT
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- Chris Brewster of cb@tamarack13.timbuk WRITES on21 Jan 93 20:11:40 GMT:
-
- > Mike Fester writes:
-
- >> . . . the American Great Plains . . . [were] burned off by the
- >> Indians several thousand years ago in an old method of hunting
- >> buffalo.
- ^^^^^^^
-
- > . . . the great plains were always prairie . . . Fires were a basic
- ^^^^^
- > part of the prairie/forest competition, though the fires were only
- > the relatively rare ones caused by lightning.
-
- Fire and buffalo. When a part of the forest was levelled by
- lightning-lit fire, regular passage of the 100-million-plus American
- bison guaranteed that it would stay level.
- Until Europeans arrived and wiped the bison, there were never
- enough people to support the fire-plus-Indian theory. Curiously, now
- that millions of people inhabit the Great Plains, the trees are
- starting to come back.
-
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