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fantom
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So just to let you know, this is a myth. Native americans had villages and farm land. They were not nomadic for the most part. The pilgrims effectively stayed in their villages.1. They very well may have been savages. How do you know they weren't? They didn't have wars between tribes? What makes you think they were so peaceful and humble? I think thats a huge misconception. THAT is the Disney/textbook version.
Also, they were probably more than anything, nomadic peoples....they werent cemented to one spot. They were probably always on the move, following herds of animals; their riverside dwellings constantly swept away in floods having to always rebuild. Hell, according to the "science", they are asiatic tribes people who got the Americas on foot. So it lends to believe that they were always on the move and never stayed put for too long.
So much for it being "their land".
Ironically, native americans became more nomadic after europeans came because 1) so many of them died that they left their villages to live with other tribes, and 2) europeans brought horses, which aren't native to the americas.
This false narrative you have about how things were sounds like elementary school brainwashing to justify that europeans didn't "take their land". When the settlers got here, they stayed in villages to escape the winter. They had corn and feasts in villages. Do you really think they built the villages? No, they were given quarter the first time. By time they came back, so many people died, they were effectively gifted abandonded farms and housing.
Let me guess, the aztecs, mayans, and other tribes were nomadic too. Or does the obvious evidence show that they might have sat in one place? There is a ton of evidence that native americans built housing and settled.