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Last login: 1 hour agoOgmin: Craig is a married guy from Tibet, Tennessee, USA.; Likes 2,325 pages, 33 photos • 341 fans • Received 61 reviews; Member since Feb 20, 2004

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Mound builder (people) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 8, 8:47pm 1 review native-americans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_builder_%28people%29; "The removal of most Indians from the mound builder regions by the 1830s, by means of the Trail of Tears, was partly justified by the theory that the Indians destroyed the mound builders. Because people thought that the mound builders were sometimes believed to be ancient Europeans, the removal of the Indians was justified in "

Horned Serpent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 8, 7:39pm 1 review native-americans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Holo; "Uktena is a great snake, as large around as a tree trunk, with horns on its head, and a bright blazing crest like a diamond on its forehead, and scales glowing like sparks of fire. It has rings or spots of color along its whole length, and can not be wounded except by shooting in the seventh spot from the head, because under this spot are its heart and its life. "

Texas Beyond History: May 6, 10:41am 3 reviews archaeology, native-americans
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/; Excellent site on the pre-historic peoples and archaeology of Texas. Lots of interesting clues here as to the lives and movements of 'the ones who came before.'

Tampa Bay Newspapers : Pinellas County &: May 6, 9:07am 1 review native-americans
http://www.tbnweekly.com/pinellas_county/content_articles/050608_pco-01.txt; "Measuring 39-feet, 11-inches in length, but believed to have been upwards of 45 feet in total, the pine canoe holds the distinction of the longest prehistoric canoe ever found in Florida. "

Made in Mexico: domesticated sunflowers - Los Angeles Times: May 4, 8:10am 1 review native-americans
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-sunflower3-2008may03,0,3889775.sto...; "New evidence confirms the plant was being raised more than 4,600 years ago, researchers say. Previous thinking held that it was converted to a crop only in the Mississippi Valley."

The New York Times & Log In: May 4, 7:59am 1 review politics, human-rights
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/fashion/04myanmar.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&...; "The Burmese military regime and soldiers follow American culture,"� he explained. "You can watch movies there. So when people in Hollywood speak out against the military, it undermines them against their own troops. That's very important. It's like when rock and rollers spoke out against Soviets. If you talk to Vaclav Havel, he'll say that Lou Reed's support for human rights in Czechoslovakia was very important to the cause."

CONCENTRATED FOODS: May 3, 7:21pm 1 review native-american
http://www.kurtsaxon.com/foods011.htm; "Powdered parched corn is still the standby of native travelers in the wilds of Spanish America, and it is sometimes used by those hardy mountaineers, "our contemporary ancestors," in the Southern Appalachians. One of my camp-mates in the Great Smoky Mountains expressed to me his surprise that any one should be ignorant of so valuable a resource of the hunter's life. He claimed that no other food was so "good for a man's wind" in mountain climbing.

In some parts of the South and West the pulverized parched corn is called "coal flour." The Indians of Louisiana gave it the name of gofio. In Mexico it is known as pinole."

READING HERODOTUS | More Intelligent Life: May 3, 8:33am 1 review history
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/765; "This is the first installment of an "Herodotus Diary". I shall be reading in Greek, along with the English of my late teacher, David Grene. My aim is not to be scholarly, but to be engaging, both of Herodotus and of the big wide world in which his book goes on surviving - "a bedside book for this and any other century. Herodotus is the original post-post-modern in a pluralist world. Read along with me, in any translation you have to hand."

Reality Sandwich: May 3, 7:00am 9 reviews counterculture
http://www.realitysandwich.com/; * Richard Smoley * Erik Davis * Sharon Gannon * Douglas Rushkoff * RU Sirius * Daniel Pinchbeck * and more

Native American Women-Foundations of the People: May 1, 1:42pm 2 reviews native-americans
http://www.snowwowl.com/histswritnawomen.html; Personification of America (1595)

"From beyond time beyond oak trees and bright clear water flow, she was given the work of weaving the strands into creation, and the gift of having created, to disappear."

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