Re: Re: American Food and American Indians

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Thanks, Tony, for the ref.

Of course, communicable disease killed many. but the similarity with recent articles of Orientals, eg, moving here, getting fat is interesting.

Things left out of analyses always. is the fact we build high rise buildings, drive cars everywhere, do little hand farming, have high air pollution, unknown chemo pollutants in the ground, lakes, oceans. Take tetraethyl lead, an organic lead. eg., used in fuel for many years.

Just the stress of trying to meet a schedule, is enough irritation to me to excite a lot of profanity. Schedules are required for wars, crops, assembly lines. I noticed even at walmart you don't need a schedule to load shelves. I'll pick the stuff out of the box in emergencies like Rita.

But the generators didn't make it in time. got that in Houston, but the gas was not so available,a dn cans to haul it in. Systems fall down under stress and people cope easily if you don't have some weirdo running around thinking he runs the place. People at Home depot were trading stuff waiting in line to get refunds to simplify.

Procrastination saves time.

So I vote for the irritation of frustration - things with no solution - helplessness - depression,

as a major problem. Especially in the elderly.

Regards.

[ ] Re: American Food and American Indians

JW,It may not have been only the food that killed them. The AmericanIndians were grossly mistreated. The Indians were virtually slaveswho probably were fed the worst kind of food.http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/serra.htm>>>Despite the frequent conflicts between military and religiousauthority, for Alta California's Indians the missions and theirFranciscan administrators were part and parcel of an enormouslydestructive colonization process. The Spanish, largely throughdisease, were responsible for a population decline from about 300,000Indians in 1769 to about 200,000 by 1821. The strenuous work regimeand high population density within the missions themselves also causedhigh death rates among the mission Indians. By law, all baptizedIndians subjected themselves completely to the authority of theFranciscans; they could be whipped, shackled or imprisoned fordisobedience, and hunted down if they fled the mission grounds. Indianrecruits, who were often forced to convert nearly at gunpoint, couldbe expected to survive mission life for only about ten years. As oneFriar noted, the Indians "live well free but as soon as we reduce themto a Christian and community life... they fatten, sicken, and die."

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