Quote Originally Posted by Garter_Gertie View Post
Stefan, first: Wikipedia is not the end-all to everything. ANYONE can go there and post whatever.
It would help a lot if you could mention something specific about the article that you consider false. I'm not really inclined to defend the wiki principle and I posted it mainly to signify that I'm skeptical about the assertions that were made.

Second: If I'm reading you correctly, I REALLY disagree with you.
I really don't have a problem with that, only the reasons if they don't make sense to me.

To whom are your referring here? Not us -as in the first native Americans? Good heavens, man! Even sapping for maple syrup they gave thanks and only took what was needed.

Teddy Roosevelt slaughtered entire heards, not the indiginous people. He killed more buffalo in one day than the Natives took in weeks in the fall hunt! Back in the 1800s, it was SPORT to shoot buffalo out the windows of the train when going though the west.
The indians are not the only primitive people that has ever existed and neither is it in any way safe to assume that the attitude was universally accepted among them nor that they had always held those views. The reason why it's important to acknowledge that, is that it completely destroys the view that eco-friendliness is something that we (humans) have forgotten.

The first people here were very eco-friendly.
Hard to verify without recorded history.