Of American Indians

I spent a late night with a friend, one who has a virtual museum on the American Indians. From way back.

He has arrowheads, axes, etc etc. He gathers flint and shapes it into replicas of Indian artifacts. He calls his artifacts, the tribe of Alar.

He has done deep vault study on the lifestyles they lived and what happened to them culturally. It's not all the white man. It's corn.

His analysis showed that when the American Indian ceased being a hunter gatherer their health went to pot. When they began cultivating grains and animals, agriculture, they began to suffer.

I don't know much about it, I'm not nearly as fascinated with all this as he is, but when he tells me that there is 6000 years of historical Indian culture in ILLINOIS alone that is very interesting.

Each culture distinct. Each one a little less peaceable.

So, if you want to be healthy and have peace, become a hunter gatherer and quit turning corn into ethanol.

I think that's the message.