@GabrielDuquette @St_Rev As in 1491? Seemingly virginal wilderness actually regrowth b/c spanish bugs had already killed most Indians off?
@mwiik @GabrielDuquette Yeah. And the Comanches were extracting tribute from surviving tribes in that context.
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@mwiik@GabrielDuquette By 'egalitarian nomads' I mean neolithic hunter-gatherers, 'egalitarian' only bc too small for much hierarchy. -
@mwiik@GabrielDuquette Whereas the Comanches climbed way up on a mountain of skulls and ruins. Other tribes giving tribute. -
@mwiik@GabrielDuquette So when Scott writes about leisurely buffalo hunting and war, think English aristocrats, not cavemen.
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