>“Native Americans were as active in shaping their environments as anyone else. They built great and wealthy cities; they lived, for the most part, on farms” T

>“Native Americans were as active in shaping their environments as anyone else. They built great and wealthy cities; they lived, for the most part, on farms” These farms didn't look like European farms, but it's hard to think of, for example: settlements in the Amazon being anything less than a living, breathing, fruit orchard. The eastern seaboard of the US had huge groves of nut trees, as well as cleared out hunting grounds. The farms were just sustainable, and worked within the environment instead of against it (example: planting in a desert, piping in massive amounts of water, and obliterating entire country-sized hydrology systems.) Perhaps what you are in, is "denial".