Quote Originally Posted by Vuk
I am not speaking of that, but their trade with people in Europe, and more importantly, settlers to America. Also, the "Indian Culture" items they make to attract tourists.
Quote Originally Posted by Vuk
This is the big misconception I am trying to shatter. Those things ARE Indian you could say (because they have been doing them for so long), but they were introduced to the Indians. i.e. a lot of the things they do are not part of their culture, but are tourist attractions introduced to them by the people of the West.
Can you give some examples so we can get to disecting them? Besides casinos


Quote Originally Posted by Vuk
I was told that they used to believe that, but not anymore. Could you clear this up with a current source please? (I am too lazy to find one and wouldn't know where to look.) Whichever one of us is right, that doesn't effect my point.
Sure, I don't have a link or anything although if you search in your college library under any of the archaeology or anthro journals out there you might find something published. The last thing I heard in the affirmative was 2005 at a lecture given by a gentleman from Colorado State I think, not sure...don't quote me on that as a lot of people spoke that day lol. But anyways it was about the Plains Indians and their relations to the four winds and circular world view in their religion and symbols relating this. The swastika in design was brought up along with many others at this time in its relevance to this. In this case the independent emergence theory came under scrutiny because of the fact that plains indians like the Sioux weren't plains indians until pushed into the plains from the great lakes and mississippi region where they were farmers and this was post contact. However independent emergence has been re-established as dated material from that region along with the mound building cultures to the south have been found in similar meaning. I could go on here, but this is getting long winded...