> My neck of Ozark woods was used by the Osage for a long time as a
> hideout while they treated all other Native American tribes, most
> notably the Caddo, like prey animals. the Nazis had nothing on the
> Osage, who attacked a village, murdered all the men and kids, used the
> women as pack animals to haul the loot back into the hills, and when
> done raping them, killed them.
>
> They had a very successful eugenics program, were noted for their
> stature. the kind of insane bloodlust seen among the Aztecs was not
> that unique. The Dakota were famous for hanging themselves by meat
> hooks. America was a very diverse place. The Hopi and Navajo look a
> lot like the peaceful early Anatolians, but that was only after the
> disaster at Chaco Canyon, where when food got short, the rich began
> eating the poor. Other work shows corn was introduced from Mexico a
> little over 2000 years ago.
>
> At first, there was a network of independent yeoman farms; but then
> these began to be built with the houses abutting each other for
> obvious defensive purposes, and this eventually resulted in the cliff
> dwellings. Which nobody would have bothered with were the human
> predation not such a severe problem.
>
> in my area, the introduction of horses resulted in the Caddo giving up
> the farming business entirely and moving west to go into the Buffalo
> business. Since the Osage lost their favorite prey animals, they tried
> to repeat their methods further East and North. This drove the other
> tribes up there, who'd been chronically fighting with each other, to
> unite, and a grand alliance was formed. They even advertised in the
> St. Louis Newspapers for white mercenaries to go with them into the
> Ozarks to clean up.
>
> A lot did, and the genocide would have been complete had not General
> White brokered a treaty at Ft. Smith in 1828, which moved the Osage
> out and into their own reservation in OK, with other tribes getting
> other parts of OK, NB, and KS. Then, during the Cherokee Trail of
> Tears, many dropped out and were fed by the new settlers (Scots/Irish)
> in the Ozarrks, and their interbred descendants are still here. If you
> ask all of the other Native American tribes, they'd agree that they'd
> rather have the whiteman here than the Osage.
>
> The area never had slaves, and even seceded from the Confederate
> government in Little Rock during the civil war. Neither the Cherokee,
> nor the whites here have interbred with Hispanics & Blacks. And seeing
> the problems that higher melanin cultures have, they seem to want to
> keep it that way. Former gov. Clinton started a broadband and computer
> program for the schools, but other than that, the schools never did
> adopt the policies of "modern education". Commonly, when you take your
> child to register, you notice the pine paddle hung on the back wall of
> the offices. You can sign a form to prevent it from being used on your
> kid, but no bully would dare wimp out like that. I was notified when
> it was used on my son. I was also notified when later, he got a
> perfect score on the ACT. 20%% of his class graduated at the 95th
> percentile using these antiquated methods.
>
> And when you surf the stats on these small hill town schools, like
> Alread, Bee Branch, Clinton, Deer, Eureka Springs, Flippin, Greer's
> Ferry, Heber Springs, and so on thru the alphabet... if you know
> anything about statistics, the numbers just jump out at you. Zero
> rates of violence. dropout rates in the single digits. Attendance at
> 95%%, graduation rates near 90%%.http://normessasweb.uark.edu/reportcards/select.php
> The Cherokee are so interbred they cant be sorted out, so the
> population is listed as 99%% white. I do see a few rebel flags on poles
> in the farm yards, and decals on some pickup trucks, but I never hear
> anyone make racist comments. There are no minorities here to bring the
> subject up.
>
> I dunno how much to sort out the genetic reason. The Cherokee were
> somewhat unique in that they already had an ongoing yeoman farming
> culture under development when the whiteman arrived. And when they
> married the Scots/Irish- the agrarian technologies, as well as many of
> the domestic plant varieties, were combined very successfully.
>
> Its worth considering that there are two European tribes which were
> not farmers, but nomadic: Saami & Gypsies. And both have the same
> problems with crime, drug abuse, domestic abuse, alcoholism, et al as
> other non-white minorities. Who were also not from yeoman farming
> traditions. Jared Diamond, in "Guns, Germs, & Steel", notes that the
> Zulu were also well on their way to an agrarian lifestyle when the
> Brits showed up, and were much more able to organize in trying to
> defend their interests.
>
> There are important lessons learned in childhood on the farm that have
> now been lost by 99%% of the American population. One reason the Ozark
> hill towns do so well is that the region is still small family farms.
> The land is too steep for agribusiness. It'd be interesting to try to
> find areas that still have lots of Black family farms to see what
> their stats are. I did hear Robt Kaplan, who wrote a study of the
> military, "Imperial Grunts" note that half the Green Berets grew up on
> family farms. This is but 1%% of the total population providing 50%% of
> the nation's most competent soldiers. You'd think the Pentagon would
> notice.
>
> Part of the DNA evidence is the fact that Native Europeans evolved in
> rural villages of 150-300 over the course of the last 10,000 years,
> with Africans in tribes of 75-150 over the last million or whatever.
> People are not instinctively equipped to deal with mass metro culture.
> After a few hundred people, they cant remember who everyone is, and
> need to rely on status symbols to know how to relate. We know what
> kind of trouble this has caused. But out in my neck of woods, if a
> jackass buys a new 4X4 to impress the girls, it dont work. They know
> who he is, and he's still a jackass. As a result, a lotta these
> jackasses have gotten in the truck and moved to the city. For which
> we are grateful.
>
> Free speech dont matter because corporate speech buys all the air
> time. I keep saying that its not upta me, or even us. The sheeple will
> vote for whoever the mass media tells them to as long as the money to
> buy the junk food and pay the cable bill is there. I spend some time
> in the postings looking at the fringe groups like the neoNazis, who
> will come out of the woodwork big time if there is economic crisis as
> a result of the ineptitude, group think, and corruption.
>
> I cant evaluate the risk of collapse cause I dunno where to go to get
> data that has not been spun by the powers that be. Malthus turned out
> to be wrong because he never foresaw the ability of oil to be used to
> ramp up food production. If you look at the photos of classic ruins in
> the National Geo a century ago, the backgrounds are full of scrub that
> barely supported goat herders. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, & Potash changed
> all that, and played out land is productive again. but now... we are
> past Hubbard's peak, and the global grain supply will barely last til
> the next harvest. Nobody knows what global warming will do to the next
> one.
>
> Diamond, in "Collapse" shows how Tokugawa took power because of an
> environmental crisis in Japan and dealt with it far more effectively
> than any democracy could have. He butchered the loggers to stop the
> clear cutting. that worked. So- a crisis need not produce a Hitler,
> altho there are plenty of neoNazis and Jackasses who hope for that.