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> “we killed more buffaloes than any settlers ever did” Is he saying in total over thousands of years that they hunted them? Or in the time that guns were intr
by seiferteric 7y ago
> “we killed more buffaloes than any settlers ever did”
Is he saying in total over thousands of years that they hunted them? Or in the time that guns were introduced to Native Americans? If the later, that is pretty surprising and I had never heard that if true.
- mc32 7y agoIt’s not meant to be taken literally. It’s a way to give oneself agency. “We are also just regular people like you; we can do good, and we can do bad. We’re not to be romanticized and looked at as weird noble people, something no one can actually be.”
- ptah 7y agoyes, the noble savage idea if from rosseau