Today is Thursday, the first day of October. Holy crap! This year is flying by. Today we started our presentations about our assigned sections of our assigned chapters. Because we had shortened class periods, we only had time for Mikyla to do her presentation. She talked about the Native Americans. She talked about how native Americans are one with nature. When they needed something, the Native Americans took what they need from the land, but they always made sure that they could give something back in return. For example, when the Americans killed any animal, like a buffalo, they would use every last part of that animal so as not to waste, and anger the spirits of the wild. They would use boens for tools, pelts for clothing, blanets, and building supplies, meat for eating, fat for cooking and preservings, bladders for waterskins, and anything you can think of, they used it.Everything changed when the white man came. The settlers killed buffalo for fun and would just leave the carcass to rot in the hot sun. They hardly ever even took any meat. That sickens me. Before the white man came, there were well over 15-20 million buffalo roaming the plains, within 70 years of the white man's presence, the bufallo were slaughtered until only a few thousand remained.I hate to think about what our long past ancestors did. Although they are the cause that we have the lives that we have today, they acted in an even more savage way than the Indians that settlers felt were an anthema to the world.
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