Native Americans before Europeans showed up?

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blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2010/11/22/thanksgiving-guilt-trip-how-warlike-were-native-americans-before-europeans-showed-up/

I found this article randomly and read through it. I found some of the comments on the article even more interesting than the article its self. like

this comment was quite interesting even though it used the word yankees in a negative way.

Not only have you spoiled Native American peoples, but you also did it in vain, looking at the resulting state of your science! American Indians, rise against the decadent Anglo-Saxon science! You're their only remaining hope, actually Just smoke the right pipe and show them the right way.

You see, Yankees, your problem and their advantage is not really violence or its absence, but your absence of roots in this foreign land. You are classical "dracins", you've lost your European origins but haven't really found any new ones (contrary to "integrated" emigrants to old-world countries). All those "American traditions", Thanksgiving and the rest, are terribly superficial with respect to true, ancient roots of "genuine" nations. It did give you quick and strong advantages, your "industrial success", but they could only be temporal as it becomes clear today, without any deeper foundation to rely upon in such uncertain epoch of unpaid debts. Maybe it can provide a deeper explanation for those various "nostalgic regrets" with respect to native Indians, your occasional "indianophilia": now you'd wish to have those deeper links to Nature and spirits of ancestors they always had and may still preserve And it need not be "irrational", can be quite practical actually.

Return back to the real world, from your virtual money fraud and abstract science trickery destroying our world, the good old world that belongs to all. Or else there will be violence: mother Nature will destroy you.

With this holiday wish, have a happy celebration, of course.
 
There were established Indian settlements in North America before the Europeans turned up, I've read about the archeological digs at what can only be described as a city that was somewhere in the midwest. They were all gone before the Europeans arrived. It took hundreds of years of white settlement before this was known.

Did they choose to give up their nascent sedentary civilisation? Or were they forced back into nomadic roaming by their own cultural decline. We'll probably never know.

I've also read about the region coalesced into the State of New Mexico. The recent history is the Americans took it off the Spanish, who had displaced the Mexicans. Apparently, and this is less certain, the Mexicans took the region off the Indians. Which tribe/Nation? Hard to know, up to 8 Nations had fought over the region for centuries, each one displacing the other with mass battles and massacres of the noncombatants of losing nations.

Hardly peace love and mung beans before the Anglo-Saxons turned up.
 
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they weren't doing particularly well judging by the early photographs.... this is backed up, (from memory) by most of the first accounts from early french & english anthropologists describing them as being continually on the verge of starving !!! :(
 
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