Comments on: Becoming Native http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:26:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Matt Tassone http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-180195 Matt Tassone Fri, 09 May 2008 19:29:44 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-180195 People are just afraid of change - they believe that they can rule the natural world without problem, but when things start to change around them they become fearful and start to step in, saying "it's not right - this shouldn't be happening". The thing is, the history of the planet is written in movements and changes; extinctions and adaptions - that's just how life is. We need to wake up and come to our senses and think outside our box! People are just afraid of change - they believe that they can rule the natural world without problem, but when things start to change around them they become fearful and start to step in, saying “it’s not right - this shouldn’t be happening”. The thing is, the history of the planet is written in movements and changes; extinctions and adaptions - that’s just how life is. We need to wake up and come to our senses and think outside our box!

]]> By: Exceptions that Prove the Rule, #4: The Inuit (The Anthropik Network) http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-26541 Exceptions that Prove the Rule, #4: The Inuit (The Anthropik Network) Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:34:52 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-26541 [...] The latest group to become native to North America came too late to cross the Bering Land Bridge, sailing instead in small boats from east Asia, and forming what anthropologists call the Thule culture in western Alaska around 1000 CE. Their legends preserved memory of the Dorset culture they displaced as giants called Tuniit. By 1300, they had reached Greenland, where Norse colonists called them, the Tuniit and the Beothuks skrælingar—"wretches" in their language. They called themselves "Inuit," or "the people" in their own Inuktitut language. English speakers came to call them by a name of Algonquian origin of ambiguous meaning (often presumed to be "eaters of raw meat," though this seems incorrect): "Eskimo." [...] […] The latest group to become native to North America came too late to cross the Bering Land Bridge, sailing instead in small boats from east Asia, and forming what anthropologists call the Thule culture in western Alaska around 1000 CE. Their legends preserved memory of the Dorset culture they displaced as giants called Tuniit. By 1300, they had reached Greenland, where Norse colonists called them, the Tuniit and the Beothuks skrælingar—”wretches” in their language. They called themselves “Inuit,” or “the people” in their own Inuktitut language. English speakers came to call them by a name of Algonquian origin of ambiguous meaning (often presumed to be “eaters of raw meat,” though this seems incorrect): “Eskimo.” […]

]]> By: The Mid-Apocalypse Review: Indigenous Edition (The Anthropik Network) http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-25397 The Mid-Apocalypse Review: Indigenous Edition (The Anthropik Network) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:26:05 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-25397 [...] Jason discusses the biological toll of Columbus' discovery and the meaning of "native" and "invasive" in "Becoming Native" [...] […] Jason discusses the biological toll of Columbus’ discovery and the meaning of “native” and “invasive” in “Becoming Native” […]

]]> By: Ted Heistman http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24862 Ted Heistman Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:35:37 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24862 Everytime I go canoeing I see signs about all these "invasive " species , millfoil, rusty crayfish, zebra muscles...I always secretly root for them. I mean I don't think there is any danger of the park service rooting them out...but still, I feel like they bhave a right to live there if they have made it this far. Everytime I go canoeing I see signs about all these “invasive ” species , millfoil, rusty crayfish, zebra muscles…I always secretly root for them.

I mean I don’t think there is any danger of the park service rooting them out…but still, I feel like they bhave a right to live there if they have made it this far.

]]> By: Ted Heistman http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24861 Ted Heistman Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:31:53 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24861 Yeah, I've actually had dreams about this. Seeing wild boars running through the black forest in Germany. This is awesome! Yeah, I’ve actually had dreams about this. Seeing wild boars running through the black forest in Germany.

This is awesome!

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24859 Jason Godesky Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:25:54 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24859 Well of course—they came from the Old World with you. You're fellow-travelers, strangers in a strange land. Well of course—they came from the Old World with you. You’re fellow-travelers, strangers in a strange land.

]]> By: Ted Heistman http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24856 Ted Heistman Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:01:09 +0000 http://anthropik.com/2006/10/becoming-native/#comment-24856 This is really interesting. I kind of feel like these "alien species" like wild boar are kindred spirits. This is really interesting. I kind of feel like these “alien species” like wild boar are kindred spirits.

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