From what I’ve chanced to read recently, archaeologists have moved the migration of Native Americans into North America back to 16,000 years ago, maybe longer. Given the assumption that it may have taken a thousand years to establish permanent settlements or territories, it still leaves them over 15,000 years of settled and successful existence. Caucasians started showing up some 600 years ago or so and have referred to those who were here as “savages” and “non-Christians not worthy of concern” since. Now it looks like we will be gone, perhaps along with homo sapiens as a whole, within the next 50 to 100 years, total successful habitation a little more than half a century.
Hmmm. Is there a faint possibility that we might have
learned something from those who were already here about living with the planet?
