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The settlers had every opportunity to learn local farming practices from the Native Americans. Instead, they did everything in their power to force their farmi

The settlers had every opportunity to learn local farming practices from the Native Americans. Instead, they did everything in their power to force their farming practices onto the land where they occupied. Native Americans farmed. They farmed different crops that were actually suited to the local biome.

Melting_Harps 5y ago
> The settlers had every opportunity to learn local farming practices from the Native Americans. > Native Americans farmed. They farmed different crops that were actually suited to the local biome. But many didn't. and those that did were often captured and conquered by those that didn't. The Comanche were the best known ones, but their were others. [0] That omission alone is what allows for many people to romanticize the horrible warfare and slavery that took place amongst the native people's perpetual state of warfare. Also, it's kind of hard to learn from a people who once exposed to European diseases were wiped out in absurd numbers long before the settlers and colonizers would actually arrive. Colonialism happens in waves, and can span long periods; it's worth reminding that the the first wave were people not interested in establishing a homestead lifestyle and a family farm but abject conquest, for that required the more disenfranchised and honestly peasant/pleb classes to be able to get to the 'New World' much later. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nomadic_peoples#Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nomadic_peoples#Americ...