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The Shoshone did not wage war, because it served no purpose.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
At the time of the Europeans discovery of North America, the American Indians already cultivated a wider variety of plants than did the Europeans.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
The most imposing characteristic of the Mississipian is the pyramidal mound, built not to cover a burial but as a foundation for a temple or a chief's house.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
When today's remnants of Indian societies are examined closely, it is seen how well some have worked out a compromise with their White conquerors—acculturation without assimilation.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
A central assumption of this book has been that to examine the experience of humans throughout their 25,000 years on this continent is to hold up a mirror to the culture of Modern America.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
To do nothing now is to let our children lament that they never knew the magnificent diversity of humankind because our generation let disappear those cultures that might have taught it to them.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
A human being cannot survive alone and be entirely human. It is through the nature of their social and political institutions that the differences and similarities among cultures are to be accounted for.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Complex civilization is hectic... such hunters and collectors of wild food as the Shoshone are among the most leisured people on earth.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Perhaps we, who for so long regarded ourselves as bringers of light to the shadowy recesses of North America, will finally admit that there is much about which the Indians can illuminate us.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
As this cultural inadequacy becomes apparent even to the most conservative of its members, the culture may deteriorate to such an extent that it literally dies.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
By the seventeenth century, observers had reached the firm conclusion that American Indians were in no way inferior to Whites, and many writers took special pains to salute the Noble Red Man.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
The astonishing cluster of them [geniuses] that appeared in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. ...what changed was the culture, which allowed exceptional minds to flourish.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
The culture of the Anasazi is still the best known of all prehistoric southwestern cultures. ...Their architecture... is distinctly their own, and unique among all the southwestern cultures.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Every Messianic movement known to history has arisen in a society that has been subjected to severe stress of contact with an alien culture—involving military defeat, epidemic, and acculturation
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
The League [of the Hodenosaunee] favorably impressed the White settlers, and some historians believe it to have been one of the models on which the Constitution of the new United States of America was based.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Following the War of 1812, the young United States had no further need for Indian allies against the British, and as a result the fortunes of the Indians declined rapidly.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Up to 1868, nearly four hundred treaties had been signed by the United States government with various Indian groups, and scarcely a one had remained unbroken.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)