LEWIS AND CLARK, GOD’S FREE FOOD

Right here in my own backyard I don’t have to go back farther than 200 years to prove that vast quantities of quality food existed for all to enjoy … totally free of charge:

http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/volume1.pdf (University of Cincinnati): HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI…, Allen, 1814. Vol. I. p. 13: Lewis and Clark Journal; near Glasgow, Missouri; June 10, 1804:

“A head wind forced us to remain there all the next day, during which we dried the meat we had killed, and examined the surrounding country, which consists of good land, well watered, and supplied with timber: the prairies also differ from those castward [east] of the Mississippi, inasmuch as the latter are generally without any covering except grass, whilst the former abound with hazel, grapes and other fruits, among which is the Osage plum of a superior size and quality.” --This “differ” and “without any covering except [only] grass” indicates that within the then American boundary (basically the Mississippi River), “free” food had been eliminated, just so to motivate people to work.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri (interpretive sign, Glasgow, MO, Market St. at the river), “The Lewis and Clark Expedition Encounters the Prairies”:

Portion in text:

Judging from their descriptions, the expedition members must have thought they entering an Edenic “garden” as they moved westward. More and more frequently Clark and the other journal keepers of the expedition wrote of the beauty and bounty of the prairies they were encountering.

http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/volume1.pdf (University of Cincinnati): HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI…, Allen, 1814. Vol. I, p. 16: Lewis and Clark Journal; near Lexington, Missouri; June 19, 1804:

“Along the shores are gooseberries and raspberries in great abundance.”

http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/volume1.pdf (University of Cincinnati): HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI…, Allen, 1814. Vol. I, pp. 17-18: Lewis and Clark Journal; in Kansas City, Missouri. near Sugar Creek (suburb); June 25, 1804:

“The prairies here approach the river and contain many fruits, such as plums, raspberries, wild apples, and nearer the river vast quantities of mulberries.”

http://www.kshs.org/lewisclark/journals.htm (Kansas State Historical Society): Lewis and Clark: Kansas Journal Entries; near Lansing, Kansas; July 1, 1804:

“(Some of the men) G. Drewyer inform that he Saw PueCanns [pecan] Trees on S. S. yesterday great quantities of raspburies an Grapes”

Actual journal entry, July 4, 1804 (see below for text):

http://www.kshs.org/lewisclark/journals.htm (Kansas State Historical Society): Lewis and Clark: Kansas Journal Entries; near Atchison, Kansas; July 4, 1804:

“The Plains of this country are covered with a Leek [edible, related to onion and garlic] Green Grass, well calculated for the sweetest and most norushing hay --interspersed with Cops [copses] of trees, Spreding ther lofty branchs over Pools Springs or Brooks of fine water. Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours (raiseing) Delicately and highly flavered raised above the Grass, which Strikes & profumes the Sensation, and amuses the mind throws it into Conjecterng the cause of So magnificent a Senery [several words illegible, crossed out] in a Country thus Situated far removed from the Sivilised world to be enjoyed by nothing but the Buffalo Elk Deer & Bear in which it abounds & Savage Indians” –Here, Clark connotes a natural state of growth, and, again, that it doesn’t exist in the civilized world (America). The entire paragraph describes “a paradise”: a virtual “Garden of Eden.” God does not like His natural way of feeding the hungry to be purposely eliminated, just so to be used as a leverage to enslave and control an entire ignorant society: if you don’t work, you don’t eat. Now, I’m not saying let’s close all the grocery stores and stop all the trucks, I’m just making a very valuable point that, technically, the ones who reap the most out of our corrupt (stealing) system “ETHICALLY” should be the ones who supply/distribute a sufficient (and non-degrading) supply of food stamps to everyone (and I mean to EVERYONE, to make it non-degrading), then everyone can and moreover WILL work for “more.” ETHICALLY, if anyone doesn’t “want” to work, they should not be forced to, or be without a meal. Plus, everyone should be ETHICALLY furnished with adequate shelter from these same reapers, because of the simple fact that everyone could have built a very, very large shelter / home using God’s free timber, stones, land, etc. “if” they spent their time building it instead of attending our system’s schools, and that’s not mentioning all the time they could have been working even more for themselves instead of the time they spent working dead-end jobs that only profited the reapers/stealers; because, all land is owned/restricted by someone. Now, if they want a VCR, or a car (to kill themselves in), then they should work for others to get it. It sickens me to find homeless people who spent years going to school, and years working dead-end jobs, that don’t even have their own home, and have to hear all the irrational degradation, disgrace, shame and guilt from the evil ones who “caused” their problems. It sickens God too. Technology never progressed better than it did in the first 100 years after the abolishment of (known/easy to reckon) slavery; therefore, a worker, that is not “required” to “have to” work WILL WORK BETTER AND MUCH HAPPIER. Paradise on earth “is” possible, but there is no way with the present ethical standards that we “are taught” today. There’ll even be a tremendous less amount of automobile accidents, which are caused mainly by “dumb” people who still “have to” drive to work, and are motivated to drive even faster to compete with all the others who just make “ends-meet.” Intelligent people do not cause automobile accidents – most people do not know that. Forcing a person that should not be working to work causes the majority of automobile accidents. And, believe me, dumb people that are forced to work are causing lots more problems than good at their work. I am constantly having to pay for others’ ignorances, mistakes, etc. Think of all the things that the intelligent and the enthused could do and accomplish if they, as well, didn’t have to pay for all the ignorances and evils of the people who “should not” be working. Quality and productivity would be more than enough to cover everyone. For example, today half the population that was not working 50 years ago (women) seem to be “in the way”; that is, quality, advancements, etc. are not near as good as they used to be, respectively. For example, cars are not made as well; but, they have to make them to fall apart sooner to pay for all their added worthless employees. With double the percent of people working today, the Post Office has found that they now cannot deliver mail direct to the door of new addresses. If you take half the population today and have it not work, then quality, advancements, etc should probably go back up. The greed that this society motivates itself on overall, is listed as a sin in the Bible for a very good reason.

What would result is working folks would be working for less, but it would all balance out. For example, if employers paid employees’ full Social Security, then paid the employees that much less, then it would be the same balance, wouldn’t it? In a nationally paid food stamp program, like Social Security, employers would pay more taxes but would be paying employees less to the same balance. It’s only rearranging things to guarantee “fairness.” But unlike Social Security, it would be paying out everyday, therefore more “secure.” As far as less people working, America has a very “bounce back” type of system. For example, if you take all the people that worked for the (unproductive / unprogressive) war effort during WWII, you’ll find one of the best economies we’ve ever had during the 1950’s, and where only one man could usually support an entire family. Plus, if you paid the same percentage of people today, that worked for the WWII war effort, to work for only feeding these people that don’t work today, you’d cover it several times. Just pretend we have another WWII, then take all that tax money and dedicate it to feeding all the people who don’t want to work. Then you could probably add in that VCR, car and maybe even a DVD player for everyone. (You say, you don’t think that would be “fair.” – I can hear ya.) Plus, with more people not working for others, they would be working for themselves more – fixing up their life, educating themselves, fixing up their house, yard, street, etc. The ghetto would start looking like San Francisco. Everyone could afford to go to college, and have all the time in the world to “study” – it’s communicative knowledge only that separates us from the animals, for improvements. All a person needs is the slightest touch of the right kind of “fair” motivation, which is the total opposite of today’s motivational idea of more degradation, disgrace, shame and guilt. (And the correct religious basis for knowing true right from wrong.) The welfare “gift” the tax payers pay to people today is so low I can’t see how people make basic living expenses: I don’t think the figures add up. I mean, they would “have to” have a relative subsidizing them, or “have to” sell drugs, or “have to” rob stores, etc., or live on the street. Plus, who knows how much drugs they need for themselves as the only way to end all the degradation, disgrace, shame and guilt, this society uses so to “motivate” them to take those lousy, degrading, humiliating, undignified jobs (especially if they’re uneducated), and the kind of job that only a 16-year-old would want. And they’re lucky if the job pays their added requirement for transportation, cloths, etc. expenses that they would have to cover. Plus, people who don’t work for others (those who don’t travel all the time) can develop “another kind” of advancing perspective for progress, because their minds are totally free to do so: they won’t have to be using their thinking part of the day to only think about what their employer wants: they would have much more time to ponder on new ideas, new solutions, etc. Their needs to be more “guaranteed” rewards for people / anyone who come up with a new or better ideas, instead of only ideas that can make direct and quick profits. Ideas only for financial profit are not the only kind of advantageous ideas. Plus, ideas that are only for profits gathers an enormous amount of deception and scams, especially today, as most of us are aware of. – It’s just going to get worse as people continue to “only think” for financial profit. There’s so many scams and deceptions today that I can’t tell when a good product or service is legitimate, and therefore miss it (when I need it) – which causes many righteous products/services to go unnoticed/out-of-business. Real innovative products go easily unnoticed because something new requires an explanation (a “sales pitch”) for people to understand its advantage. With so much deceptive advertising today, people have to “just trust” that it’s right. And since people are so (rightfully) skeptical of “sales pitches” they don’t “just trust” any sales pitch / advertisement, therefore the good product doesn’t only not get its fair due, but the people don’t get the better product or service. Good products / services are not the ones that get the recognition, only the products that have “the money” to fully promote it, get the recognition; and, since “the money” is backed by self-centered greed, the cost to make / do the product / service is less, therefore the most inferior products as humanly possible are the ones that get the recognition. Plus, thanks to all of today’s artificial salvation, church cop-outs (confession, faith alone, etc.), workers/businesses today, if they’re not lying to you or misleading you, they’re trying to cover up all their continuous mistakes. Pride in the actual work and service is getting less and less every year. These people can’t be happy with their job. Workers are “learning” more and more that if it’s not obvious then deceit will usually work. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I continually fall victim of it – and that’s the stuff I become aware of. And it seems to be more often as I get older. When’s it gonna end? Sure, the legal system has laws to combat it, but “who” did what to who, has everything to do with what gets enforced. And the worthless media can’t even stop O.J. from getting off. The “correct” embedded religious moral is the ONLY way it can be stopped and overall. But Goldenrule based religions have found that more money comes in when you tell / embed the ones with the money what they want to hear – which is not the Goldenrule. Plus, MANY people just stay away from the church because of the corrupt sexual teachings. God knows that because the current ruling “survival of the fittests” are so self-centered and greedy, causing multitudes of lies, cons, games, products built to break, etc., that a ruling “fairness” would do a much better and more productive job. I’m fully aware that the taxpayers paying people to not work doesn’t sound right; but, ironically, reckoning beyond what you’ve been taught, it would be “fair.”

Like the changed definition of “fornication,” this “free food / resources taken away” is another “subtle corruption” used to control society in a very, very big way.

http://www.transparency.org/sourcebook/28.html, TI Source Book 2000, “Chapter 28: Surveys as Tools--Measuring Progress”:

Corruption is perhaps the most under-reported crime there is. Kevin Ford has observed that: [An act of corruption] is generally conducted in great secrecy. All parties involved in the immediate transaction (the bribe taker and the receiver) are usually satisfied with the result and recognise the possibly very negative consequences of revealing their own role in such criminal conduct even if they are not satisfied. Meanwhile the victims of corruption, which are usually the general public and society at large, are either blissfully unaware of specific acts of corruption or so inured to such corruption that they have become indifferent to it.

It’s like if society tore down a natural God-placed bridge across the Mississippi River, then charged everyone a fee to take a ferry across, then everyone would think the charge would be justified because it costs to run the ferry. Everyone would also feel justified in laboring all their life for the benefit of the ferry operators. And when the one-sided labor is necessary to feed their children, then nobody is even remotely able to see another better way. Notice that today there’s no free food wherever you walk like there was hundreds / thousands of years ago, because it “motivates” people to have to work one-sidedly for the few that control it. “The system” forced pioneers / settlers to farm it or lose it, and forced Indians into “settled farming,” because they knew it would destroy “God’s free food,” hence cause everyone to “have to” work. All education is geared to support it. Here in Kansas, just 200 years ago one could just reach over and grab God’s free food whenever they wanted it. Mothers would not “need” a husband to feed their babies: there would be no “need” for marriage / monogamy / human possession (for the support of the woman and her children). Like we do today, they also had the relevant tools to protect themselves from predators, so they walked as fearless as we do today, especially in populated areas -- only one person died in Lewis and Clark’s party during their nearly 2 ½ year very laborious 8,000 mile journey, and that was from a ruptured appendix. Plus, they did not bring a trained doctor. Hypothetically, I doubt hardly anyone would survive today if that highest extent of the Y2K scare would have been real: once the grocery stores had been emptied. People 200 years ago survived, every day. The first thing the white man established here in Johnson County, Kansas was the “Shawnee Indian Mission” (1839-1862) which was a Methodist missionary training school to convert the Indians to change to “settled farming,” which makes the food … not free.

http://housatonic.net/faculty/ABALL/west.htm, American History II Notes (The West):

For many, particularly immigrants from Europe, the availability of cheap or free land was paramount. (In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act) which gave 160 acres of land to any family for a $10 registration fee as long as they agreed to farm on it for 5 years.

Why would they “require” everyone to farm it, and why would they not need to after five years? Apparently just to eliminate God’s free food.

http://www.nps.gov/home/homestead_act.html, The Homestead Act:

The Homestead Act of 1862 has been called one the most important pieces of Legislation in the history of the United States. … With application and receipt in hand, the homesteader then returned to the land to begin the process of building a home and farming the land, both requirements for "proving" up at the end of five years. When all requirements had been completed and the homesteader was ready the take legal possession, the homesteader found two neighbors or friends willing to vouch for the truth of his or her statements about the land's improvements and sign the "proof" document. After successful completion of this final form and payment of a $6 fee, the homesteader received the patent for the land, signed with the name of the current President of the United States. This paper was often proudly displayed on a cabin wall and represented the culmination of hard work and determination. … The Homestead Act of 1862 is recognized as one of the most revolutionary concepts for distributing public land in American history. Repercussions of this monumental piece of legislation can be detected throughout America today

Think about it: If you’re a hard working farmer in Kansas (or anywhere) back in 1862, and your well being depends on selling your produce, then you’re not going to want any free food available along the creeks and rivers for others to “just take,” either. Getting rid of it would have had overwhelming majority rule. Today, a farmer doesn’t even have to think about that, because it’s not an issue anymore. So, free food apparently was taken away so good and completely that it hasn’t come back. Let me buy a farm next to a town, and plant a bunch of free food for anyone to come and take, then let’s see if today’s farmers say something. Being tarred and feathered comes to mind.

Atlas of Lewis & Clark in Missouri; Harlan, Denny; 2003; University of Missouri; Introduction: “The Missouri Experience: An Overview”; p. 8:

The Trail of Tears in the Southeast Missouri Region, brochure by The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning & Economic Development Commission, P.O. Box 366, Perryville, MO 63775, Reprint 7-98, “The Cherokee” (around 1830):

Museum Guide to Kansas History; brochure/guide to the Kansas Museum of History, Topeka, Kansas; obtained 7-7-02, p. 10; “Mission Schools”:

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-07-04.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Moulton, On July 4, 1804 another member of the party (Sergeant Ordway) wrote:

“one of the most beautiful places I ever Saw in my life, open and beautifully Diversified with hills & vallies all presenting themselves to the River” This is at present day Independence Creek five miles north of Atchison, Kansas (north on 2^nd, east on 314^th Rd to parking lot, walk across bridge to top of levee, look west); believe me, the spot doesn’t look like that today: it looks like anywhere else in the river valley. But I can see how it might look that way if it was covered with a colorful variety of food. I think it would give a person a sense of security: a good, safe feeling: a feeling that God is here. All that would be missing is a variety of naked women there for all (including the women) to sexually enjoy (with a mindset to allow it). – Then, let’s see if anyone could better that kind of paradise?

… (Sergeant Floyd) wrote:

“we camped at one of the Butifules Praries I ever Saw open and butifulley Divided with Hills and vallies all presenting themselves”

http://editorialmatters.lee.net/articles/2004/06/29/stories/top_stories/9ynews198.txt, Editorial Matters: Stories: Journey of destiny begins again today, by Sherry Devlin of the Missoulian, re: July 4, 1804:

They wrote of a landscape previously undescribed by Europeans: "The Plains of this countrey are covered with a Leek Green Grass ….”

http://www.emporia.edu/nasa/lewis_cl/atchison/atchison.htm (Emporia State University), Atchison and Vicinity, Kansas & Missouri: Lewis and Clark, re: July 4th, 1804:

At this point in their journey, Lewis and Clark were entering a veritable Garden of Eden (Ambrose 1996). Clark wrote in his journal entry for the day: So magnificent a Senerey in a Contry thus Situated far removed from the Sivilised world to be enjoyed by nothing but the Buffalo Elk Deer & Bear in which it abounds & Savage Indians.

Atlas of Lewis & Clark in Missouri, Harlan: Denny, 2003, University of Missouri, Introduction: “The Missouri Experience: An Overview,” p. 5:

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (PBS DVD), Ken Burns, 1997, Side A, Special Features, “Interview with Stephen Ambrose [Program Adviser / Author]” [on The Charlie Rose Show, broadcast March, 1996]:

“These guys [Lewis and Clark] went into a Garden of Eden! In the Garden of Eden, you just reach out and grab your food … Lewis and Clark and the men of the Corps of Discovery saw things that no human being will ever see again”

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/gardenofeden.htm, Was The Garden of Eden in Missouri?:

Joseph Smith [Mormon leader] declared this new understanding of Genesis and the location of Eden during a trip through Missouri in 1831.

Even in 1831, it makes sense someone from New York would notice a difference.

http://www.kshs.org/lewisclark/journals.htm (Kansas State Historical Society): Lewis and Clark: Kansas Journal Entries; further up the river, July 5, 1804:

“I observe great quantities of Summer & fall Grapes, Berries & Wild roases on the banks”

http://www.kshs.org/lewisclark/journals.htm (Kansas State Historical Society): Lewis and Clark: Kansas Journal Entries; near White Cloud, Kansas; July 10, 1804:

“opposit this Isld. on the L.S. is a butifull Bottom Prarie whuch will Contain about 2000 acres of Land covered with wild rye & wild Potatoes”

So, what do we have here: hazelnuts, grapes, plums, gooseberries, raspberries, apples, mulberries, pecans, vegetables, wheat, rye, potatoes … a nice selection of carbohydrates, grains and proteins … sounds like a healthy mix to me.

All the above journal citations only cover one month, out of their 28 month journey; plus, they didn’t go everywhere.

The closest Indian tribe (Kanza) was 20 leagues (60 miles) up the Kansas River:

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-06-28.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Moulton, (at the mouth of the Kansas River, Kansas City, Kansas) June 28, 1804:

“This River recves its name from a nation which dwells at this time on its banks & 2 villages one about 20 Leagues & the other 40 Leagues up, those Indians are not verry noumerous at this time”

And the closest Indians in Missouri were 200 miles up the Osage River:

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-06-01.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Moulton, (at the mouth of the Osage River, near Jefferson City, Missouri) June 1, 1804:

“The Osage nation of Indians live about two hundred miles up this river.”

The last white settlement (seven houses) they passed was near Washington, Missouri (just west of St. Louis):

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-05-25.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Moulton, May 25, 1804:

“a small French village situated on the north side, and encamped a quarter of a mile above it. This is the last settlement of white people on the river.”

Their first encounter with Indians was near Omaha, Nebraska:

http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/lewisandclark/explore/leg03.html, Traveling the Mighty Missouri North of the Platte River in Nebraska and Iowa - August 1804:

They also encountered their first Native Americans — Otos and Missouris.

Lewis and Clark Across Missouri: Mapping the Historic Landscape, a traveling exhibit of the Missouri State Archives, on display at the Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10^th St., Kansas City, MO, July 26, 2004:

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/ScienceofExpedition.htm (National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior), The Science of the Lewis and Clark Expedition:

In 1803 Lewis traveled to Philadelphia to study with Dr. Barton, a professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, who instructed Lewis in botany and zoology. Barton was the first professor of natural sciences in the United States and wrote the first U.S. textbook on botany. It is not known whether it was Barton or Jefferson who taught Lewis how to prepare and label plant and animal specimens; either was capable of doing so. Lewis took 10 or 12 natural science reference books with him all the way to the Pacific Ocean and back, including Barton's botany textbook.

If you don’t understand my point, just take a drive or walk in the country (or the city), by creeks, rivers, parks, etc. and try to find some of this free food, especially “great quantities” and in great variety. Where’d it go? Where did God’s furnished free-to-all cancer free, organic food go? Is it righteous for people to starve if they don’t work? Is it righteous that they be degraded to feel shame and guilt so to “motivate” them to work? Explain to me the definition of slavery? Here’s one:

Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dict., 1997, p. 1103:

I’ve looked around personally and, hey… I think if we replaced half of all the poison ivy with free food, we’d have it! But again, the first step is getting the system people to admit to themselves that the system is unfair, evil and is ONLY intended for the “maximum” enslavement of ALL (or as many as they can get for as hard as they can squeeze), then not change it for the that same (motivational) reason. Again, admit (“realize the reality”) that you’re evil, while you don’t change it. You see, today’s motivators against the poor, the stupid, and the unlucky, do it because they actually believe (have been taught) that it’s fair and righteous. My job is to make them realize – in say 100 years – that their motivational tactics to get all to work is nothing more than greed to the maximum, again, so they can begin to ignore it; because, the self-centered pride of not admitting that you were wrong (or stupid) definitely rules in this world – ask George W. Bush (but he’s just like everybody else). But, when you make a person realize that they’re unfair, then, when time allows them to become a victim of (substantial) unfairness, only then, will they “begin” to see the dirty filthy evil that they really are, and “maybe” change, if they live long enough. I’m sure it happens all the time, but with mainstream religion saying that they don’t have to accomplish restitution instead of stressing Christ’s “threat” in Matt. 5:23-26, they will just easily ignore their past evils, try to cover it up and/or sweep it under the rug. Again, the first step is making people “realize” they are evil. Because, if one never realizes that something they do is evil, then they will NEVER change it. The ultimate “squeeze” was (obvious) slavery; I don’t know if easy profits have gone up since the abolishment of slavery, but again, technology sure has.

I realize that nobody knows this today, but society will reap a much more constructive, progressive and positive effect, once all of its workers are rationally “complaint free” where total fairness abides. There’s a BIG psychological difference between “wanting” to work versus “having to” work, concerning doing a good / prideful work, and being happy while you’re doing it. In the natural, and where one has been taught by his parents’ / people’s skills, only minimal work is necessary to “make ends meet.” Anyone that has to work their tail off just to make ends meet (including the expenses of a good/safe car w/ insurance) in today’s society, has that moral right to complain. All clothes (and in style), and the vast majority of medicines are also society caused necessities that should all be furnished free to people that simply don’t want to work for somebody else; in addition to all food, large sturdy shelter (not just an apartment), nearby firewood (or gas or electric).

“No one deserves to be a slave” –George W. Bush; Inaugural Speech; January 20, 2005.

http://www.hallgold.com/neways_training_cancer_free.htm:

The American Cancer Society says that 1/2 of all men and 1/3 of all women in our country today will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime. This is a massive increase over the 1 person in 80 who contracted cancer 100 years ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3896421.stm:

Research on skeletons dating back thousands of years, indicates that cancer was not something they encountered very frequently.

http://www.kellscraft.com/Indianboyhood/indianboyhood12.html, Indian Boyhood, by Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) – a Santee Sioux, 1902, Chap. 12: “First Impressions of Civilization” (his uncle’s view of white culture):

Not one of them would let so much as a turnip go from his field unless he received full value for it. I understand that their great men make a feast and invite many, but when the feast is over the guests are required to pay for what they have eaten before leaving the house. I myself saw at White Cliff (the name given to St. Paul, Minnesota) a man who kept a brass drum and a bell to call people to his table; but when he got them in he would make them pay for the food!

“I am also informed,” said my uncle, “but this I hardly believe, that their Great Chief (President) compels every man to pay him for the land he lives upon and all his personal goods — even for his own existence — every year!” (This was his idea of taxation.) “I am sure we could not live under such a law.

This shows that the Indians saw food and the land as free (no cost), indicating that their obtaining the food must have not been very labor intensive. They had lots of items to trade, but food was apparently not one of them. He (the uncle) forgot to add that no one is legally allowed to trespass on that land, so to further steal God’s free resources.

http://www.kawnation.com/Culture/culthist.html, Kanza Cultural History: Post-Contact, or Kansas Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission Native American Resource Handbook, 2004, “Kaw Nation”:

Beginning in 1825, formalized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and continuing well into the mid-1840's … Underlying these treaties was the invader's strategy for rapidly changing the Kaw from an independent, semi-sedentary people into individual family farmers on the model of white agricultural society in Missouri, Illinois, and other so-called "settled" states in the east.…

There are restrictions in today’s meal facilities and shelters for today’s poor, which is all intended (under the name of God) to motivate the homeless to find a degrading job. That’s why the homeless are forced to leave the shelter during the day, so they will be motivated to get a job or just not come back. But, if the homeless just took one year of using God’s free resources to build their own shelter, say in the same time period they spent in say 8^th grade, they’d have a large solid structure, where they could store their possessions, where they wouldn’t “have to” leave every day. You see, people attend school so “the system” will eventually work for them; but, when the game of the system doesn’t work out for an individual, then they should be compensated from the system winners, to equate for the same as if they had worked for themselves all those years (in school and dead-end jobs) using God’s free resources. People today are not given the option to go to school, they are forced, so to only serve one master (the system). They are forced (by default) to work worthless, degrading jobs, so to only serve that same master. In this world, greed definitely rules, but not near as much as ignorance of reality: unless people are taught it, they’re really not going to know it.

City Union Mission, Kansas City, MO (local homeless shelter):

http://www.cumission.org/learn/index.html (“motivation”):

The Mission also helps clients break the cycle of poverty, homelessness and dependence on government assistance

How’s about, the greedy wealthy “just give it”: what is naturally free from God, and to make good on all the time the homeless spent in school and degrading jobs for others? Another component of City Union Mission's program is helping people prepare for jobs and manage their money so they can become self-sufficient in the future. The focus of the training is on developing right attitudes and a work ethic that will enable the person to escape the cycle of poverty, to help save our most rich and selfish some pennies. Yeah, I (only) can see why they want drugs.

http://www.cumission.org/give/index.html:

By sending a monthly gift of $15--or $180 annually--you will help provide a homeless individual with safe shelter (a bed) and hot meals (bread). We’re not asking you to help hundreds of homeless and hungry people. Just one. Year-round. Call for a brochure or respond below. Is that all it costs? Instead of “asking“ people to help cover it, why not just have our public, majority controlled government “take it” from the ones who have “caused” these conditions to exist (technically, those who reap the most from the current status quo, like the corporations)?

http://www.cumission.org/involved/volunteer.html:

Each summer, City Union Mission sponsors a camp for urban core and other "at risk" youth on a sprawling campground near Warsaw, Missouri. Say, why don’t you tell them that they can use all that timber and resources in the Warsaw area, and give them twelve years of education on how to use it, then drop “vast quantities” of “delicious froot” and vegetable seeds from an crop-duster (to equate to what was probably there 200 years ago), and let them just stay there? Oh ... yeah … that’s right, I forgot about all the bad water. Well, it looks like higher taxes against the rich corporations is the only fair way. Then if they got a job, it would cover the expenses of a car, that VCR, telephone, etc.

Many people will say, why do more for these worthless homeless people anyway: they’re just the few? The answer is, if there’s no correct / fair ethical basis for a system / society, then it’s not going to work as well; which, believe it or not, would / will “trickle up” to be advantageous for ALL. These homeless, the other poor, the underpaid (which is most any job that doesn’t require much intelligence), down deep, know / can “feel” they’re being treated unfairly, but are unable to know or explain why.

You know what, if everyone had guilt-free open / free sex in these homeless shelters (with available disease preventives and birth control), I don’t think anybody would want to leave, and go back to the limitations of the status quo. I think guilt-free open / free sex would definitely goof up that “motivational” incentive to get people to not come back.

You say, if we didn’t motivate them to get a job by kicking them out at 7 a.m. (and allowed them to store / accumulate their stuff) then nobody would work, then nobody would get feed, right? I still say that if workers get “more” for working, the vast majority will still work; and, if they are not working for waste (e.g., a war effort) then that would cover all the people that didn’t want to work. It’s like how our most impoverished teens will join today’s military because they can’t go to college to get a decent job. But the taxpayers are paying that bill, so they could easily pay an equal amount to people that just didn’t want to work. The only reason they don’t want to pay people who don’t work, is because they don’t “think” it’s fair. It’s like during WWII when the women were productively working for the soldiers, who where working unproductively (non-constructively): a lot like someone who just doesn’t want to work. Plus, unless non-workers are independently doing something useful, most of them will get “bored” and get a job, once their mind is free (from being kicked when they’re down). Then everyone kind of starts at the/a top, and works their way up; which has been proven to be the case of this world’s most motivated people (the rags to riches stories are the most entertaining just because it doesn’t happen that often). It’s like, if the non-workers do nothing or play all day they won’t gain anything (other than maybe comfort or knowledge), but if they do this (a job) they will get something to add to their comfort, entertainment, etc. I think it’ll sell. But, the few that decide to not work, will know they can do so freely. That simple knowledge alone will cause a lot less justification for worker complaints; hence, more motivated workers. Goal motivation will always work better than pain motivation, unless you want to bring back slavery. In today’s post-slavery “transition” gearing towards goal motivation rather than pain motivation, the future can only be better once everyone is goal motivated. I hear that the tremendous amount of work that people did during WWII for all the millions of unproductive (non-constructive) soldiers, pulled the country out of the Great Depression. Therefore, lots of people working hard for nothing advantageous (either war workers or people who don’t want to work), will stimulate the economy Greatly.

When you have the “work requirement standard” and the family standard, it causes what psychologists call “non-negotiable, victim, aggressor, thought traps” summarized in words like “need, have to, should, must, ought to, no one, never, everyone, always, all the time, etc.” But, everyone would be better off if we would be able to use words and thoughts psychologists call “negotiable, assertive, freedom thoughts” like “want, like, desire, prefer, rather, can use, some times, some people, occasionally, at times, etc.”

We all should only be working for others after we’ve feed ourselves and after we’ve built our sturdy shelter, and the freedom to stay or go as we please, because that is the natural that we all had at one time, before we started working for others (to make advancements, and to make things “better”). Today’s ethical leaders need to recognize that basic fairness; regardless of what the “ruling self-centered greed few” want you to believe for their greedy “squeeze” for each and every penny they can get. If you live in their big fairytale world, and don’t believe / realize that’s the way they think (greed), then quit reading this and go back to sleep. The fact is, the more gullible someone is to the “accepted majority influence” the lower their abstract reasoning abilities. Incidentally, when I say “working for themselves,” I don’t mean someone that is “self-employed,” because in self-employment, you’re still working for others when you have to sell your product or service, and buy from others to make or do your product or service. Many people enter self-employment, work their tails off, then fail and get nothing out of it. So “self-employment” is not “working for yourself.”

“I found the simple life ain’t so simple, when I jumped out on the road … I live my life like there's no tomorrow. All I've got, I had to steal … Yes I’m runnin’ with the Devil…” –Van Halen, 1978. – You’ll find in the afterlife that your evil is not near as evil as the ones who have “caused” those conditions to exist.

There I was completely wasting, out of work and down. All inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town. Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die. So I might as well begin to put some action in my life: Breaking the law, breaking the law … So much for the golden future, I can't even start. I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart. You don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue. If you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too: Breaking the law, breaking the law … You don't know what it's like! –Judas Priest, 1980. – ".

By the way:

http://www.place.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/~drjes/issues/3/reasoning.html, Gender Differences in Abstract Visual Reasoning Abilities “Abstract”:

The goal of this experiment was to examine whether males or females have superior abstract reasoning abilities. To do this, three tests were administered to a group of seventeen-year-old science students at Dawson College. The results of these tests showed a significant difference between the scores of the two sexes, with males achieving scores considerably higher than females. This result supports the hypothesis and leads us to conclude that the abstract reasoning skills of males are better than those of females, at least in the selected test group.

Abstract reasoning is the ability to get ideas from information already learned, to think logically about intangible or non-verbal concepts, about possibilities, about hypotheses. Abstract reasoning ability mainly has to do with the ability (or mental process) to solve problems. I personally excel in that, and being rather inferior in practically all other qualities, my mind is constantly figuring out solutions to problems. For example, I can see many reasons for improvements in the Windows operating system, but it will probably take Microsoft 20-30 years to figure them all out. We would not have air conditioning if it wasn’t for abstract reasoning. Abstract reasoning also allows one to know when old ideas are still better: I was wondering how long it was going to take automobile manufactures to go back to “the knob” for car radio volumes – about 20 years, eh? I’m still waiting for the better features of the older telephones to come back. But now I’m working for God. Since others’ minds are mainly controlled by the “accepted majority influence” (whether they accept it or not accept it), my solid logical reasoning alone cannot be understood by them; therefore, I need to present “accepted majority influence” evidence from each expert in a particular field, that supports my many points; but, still, putting it all together to conform to the overall Goldenrule / fairness, will be another major challenge for me. Plus, I think slowly, so I don’t miss details (but it takes me longer to figure out common tasks). Abstract reasoning contrasts with the term “concrete thinking” which has to do with the role of direct experience: “sense and react” or “sense then know,” a one-step thinking process, which every animal possesses, which is why most people are limited only to, and excel in, “accepted majority influence”; like today’s churches’ contradictory definitions of morality and salvation. To find the contradictions one must have very high abstract reasoning skills, and the will to use it – abstract reasoning is basically difficult to administer, and in its highest extent, difficult for others to understand, therefore rarely spoken about for acceptance / bootlick reasons. Even when I explain the contradictions to people, most still judge it by determining whether they “just believe” me or the mainstream, by their one-step thinking process of who “I” am versus “accepted majority influence”; i.e., the big money. Many times an individual will agree with me on every one of my determining points, but when I conclude with the end result countering a major religious / ethical lie, they’ll go “no, no, it can’t be.” So getting the “majority influencers” to first understand it, then become honest about it (in fear of God), is my only logical goal (and honesty doesn’t mean just ignoring the subject). My “concrete thinking” is strangely below average, but is probably the reason why my abstract reasoning excels, even above the highest possible aptitude score which I received in eighth grade. Like how a blind person’s hearing will improve.

Here’s another reason why the ones who reap the most from “the system” should pay more:

http://www.dasc.vt.edu/jones/Streams.htm (Virginia Tech), Protecting Healthy Streams by Fencing Out the Dairy Herd

What makes a stream unhealthy? Agriculture has been implicated as the major nonpoint source of nutrients and sediments to rivers, streams, and lakes. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) categorizes the major pollutants as oxygen depleting substances such as manure, ammonia, and organic wastes; the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus; acids from mining or industrial activities; and toxic materials such as pesticides and salts. According to the National Research Council (1989), agriculture is the nation's largest source of nonpoint water pollution, which may be the most damaging and widespread adverse environmental effect of agricultural production … The best way to protect water quality for human and livestock health is to manage livestock waste so that it does not contaminate nearby waters.

You mean thanks to the greed of the system, and because of people who eat meat, I have to pay more in my water bill?

Everyone believes that if we give everyone their fair share (equivalent to God’s free resources of the past), then no one will be motivated to work. But, technically, the American free enterprise system (the pursuit of getting more) alone causes enough motivation. Today’s problems emanate from the poor (or people who don’t want to work for others) who either don’t get their fair share or are denounced for taking it. Therefore, simply the “idea of what’s fair” is the key to the solution. Secondarily, problems also come from the lower middle class who are working their tales off just so to make ends meet. But, in fairness, 200 years ago, where I set, anyone could have made “ends meet” free from God, without having to bootlick to others. To make money in this society, everyone has to bootlick to (or get approval from) someone and many times in unfairness, even in self-employment. Everyone likes to work (or “do” something). Practically all “playing” when we were children was creating or accomplishing something. So why do many adults not wish to continue this? A reason why many people don’t want to be in the workplace is because there’s a lot of irrelevant and frivolous “fault finding” and putdowns that fellow employees do to other employees solely to boast the pride of the deliverer. Naturally, by default, many people will feel better about themselves when they find fault in others; therefore, many times will resort to erroneous, unfair or frivolous criticisms / rejections. Now, correct, productive and fair criticisms do help improve people (in the long run); but erroneous, unfair or frivolous criticisms / rejections will just make a person worse. The overwhelming prejudice against blacks through the latter 1800’s through the 1960’s proves my point. No one “wants to” do anything for someone who is unfair to them. In other cases, just the job is demeaning, tedious or actually under or over the employee’s suitability / aptitude. Of course, all of us wish to optimize this, but when we can’t, these are simply the jobs that should pay more. In a one-step thinking process, all employers want to get the most while paying the least; but, when the societal effects trickle down then trickles back up, it causes more overall problems than it helps. Again, I (and Jesus) believe that a time will come where there won’t be a need for police, courtrooms, nor any weaponry. My writings are the only way toward this goal. By using God’s free resources (200 years ago), if we were able to build it or accomplish it totally by ourselves (without having to bootlick to anyone else), then in fairness it should be free to us in this society today.

Why children don’t like school is because they don’t see what it’s accomplishing; but, they still seek and desire education when they watch TV (“entertainment”), because they can see the desired accomplishments, and find betterment for themselves by just learning new and varied subjects, especially things that move the emotions. Children actually strive to learn things, but don’t like school. School subjects appear to be for someone else’s benefit, just as most people feel in the workplace. However, if kids got paid for studying subjects that appear to be for someone else’s benefit, then they would be able to see a benefit. Do you think we’d have more educated people if we paid people to go to college instead of them having to pay to go? And if we had more educated people, would it be a better and more productive world? The teaching of true and fair ethics could be a subject that makes improvements also, not the “faith alone” cop-outs that today’s churches stress. If you just flatter your employer all day, but not do the work, you would be fired. Same with God: if you just flatter God / Jesus by today’s definition of worshipping, but not do His work (the Goldenrule), then He will fire you in the afterlife. The only correct way to “worship” God is to achieve the Goldenrule. You do not love God unless you love the homeless person. And if you found out that the homeless person was God / Jesus, what would you do? Well, I’m not going to assert that, I’ll just say Matthew 25:35: “I was a stranger and you took Me in.” However, I don’t see people going downtown to pick up homeless people to give Jesus a place to live. We’ve got big churches though. I can find many people there who will agree that Jesus’ words are definitely from God. I can find many people who will agree that my words should be ignored, especially the parts that they already have source on. Does this mean that hardly anyone is a true Christian? Two billion people will agree I’m wrong. Why am I doing this? Matthew 25:40: “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.” It sounds like Jesus wants you to start at the bottom and work your way up. And, if we’re doing enough by having welfare taxes taking care of the problem, then why are they homeless? I think it all has to do with “motivation,” not Jesus. But then we live in a democracy, so the people have decided it this way; in this “Christian” based society. You see, no one really cares about Jesus. It’s apparently very, very easy for one to lie to him/her self. How long did it take for the first residents of Kansas City to build a log cabin with a fireplace? Did welfare taxes pay for it? Well, what’s going on?

(Added 12-4-10):

Welfare fairness (I usually don’t talk if it’s something that most already know or could figure on their own):

200 years ago here in Kansas City and other uncivilized lands, Lewis and Clark reported an “abundant” amount of food free and building resources for anyone to just take, and they noted that such wasn’t seen in “civilized” lands. With the advent of agriculture, it makes the procurement of food even better. But, since its consumption must go through the trade system to attain, those who have the upper hand can easily take advantage of those who don’t. You see, when one is now forced to work or sell to others, or starve and freeze, then employers and buyers can pay them a lot less then their true worth (or, of the true value commensurate with the production of their labor), as they are really being forced to work or sell for less. Therefore, taking from the rich and lucky and giving to the poor and unlucky is a fair way to rebalance the true contribution of the poor worker. Plus, a sum should also be given for those who just don’t want to work or sell, as their previous way of just taking God’s free food and building resources has been taken away. Jesus Himself also instructed for this rational cause in Matt. 25:34-46, and actually identified it as the only determination of who does and who doesn’t get saved.

More Related To This Subject

God’s Free Food Allows Sexual Promiscuity:

And, conversely, the monopolization of food for sell is the ethical basis for monogamy:

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-09-26.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Pierre, SD; September 26, 1804; visiting the Teton Sioux:

“ther women appear verry well, fin[e] Teeth, High Cheek [bones] Dress in Skin Peticoats, & a Roabe with the flesh Side out and harey ends turned back over their Sholdes, and look well— they doe all the Laborious work, and I may say are perfect Slaves to thier husbands who frequently have Several wives—“ … “(they offered us women, which we did not except) “ [3] … 3. The offer of women was a combination of hospitality and diplomacy—a custom repeated by later tribes which the party met. See Ronda (LCAI), 36–37, 62–64. Also: “The Squaws are Chearfull fine lookg womin not handson, High Cheeks Dressed in Skins a Peticoat and roab which foldes back over thir Sholder, with long wool. doe all ther laborious work & I may Say perfect Slaves to <all> the men” This sounds like the traditional opposite of American society, were husbands seem to be slaves for their wives, especially over 40 years ago. Neither is fair. Apparently it’s very hard for an entire society to think somewhere between the two extremes. I think the women did the laborious work simply because the men were bigger people.

Apparently there was enough free food that a Native American woman could not only feed herself and her children, but actually did all the work for all the lazy men. Therefore, Indian “marriage” sounds to me like something just to satisfy the possessive desire of the husband, not a necessity to feed the woman and her children, as it has (traditionally) been in our society: you’ve heard of alimony and child support haven’t you? (Alimony, of course, being more popular / “necessary” 50 years ago.)

In America, monogamous marriage is only stressed so that the actual father would be the one who works so to feed his family. In fact, it’s the only thing our court system is concerned about, when a couple gets a divorce. But I’ve always speculated that if there was free food, then there would really not be so such a need for monogamous marriage:

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/ronda_plainsethno.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Lewis and Clark as Plains Ethnographers; James P. Ronda, historian at the University of Tulsa, and author of several Lewis and Clark books:

One of the rituals of village life most carefully recorded and least understood was the Mandan buffalo-calling ceremony. The open sexuality of the rite certainly attracted some of the American party, but the purpose of that ritual intercourse simply baffled Clark. Several men in the expedition obligingly took part in it, and their experiences enabled Clark to write a remarkably detailed description of buffalo calling. He realized that the ceremony was undertaken to attract the herd and guarantee a successful hunt. But he simply could not fathom how sexual relations between old men or white men and the wives of younger Indians could bring the animals closer and ensure good kills. Admiring much about the Mandan way, Clark found it difficult to reconcile what seemed random promiscuity with his own positive evaluation of village life. He did not understand that northern plains cultures assumed that sexual intercourse was like a pipeline that could transfer spiritual power from one person to another. Old men had that special power and, as Clark himself noted, "the Indians say all white flesh is medisan." Giving their wives to old men or white strangers was a way aspiring young men could appropriate powerful spirit forces for themselves. Nothing in his cultural heritage prepared Clark to comprehend all this, but he had the good sense to make an accurate record of the event. It is important to recall that Clark was not prudish about buffalo calling. He wrote his account in plain English. It was only later that the proper Philadelphian Nicholas Biddle put Clark's forthright words into genteel Latin. [43] … 43. "Biddle Notes," 2:538; Bowers, Mandan, pp.283-86; Bruner, "Mandan," p. 217; Kehoe, "Functions of Ceremonial Sexual Intercourse," pp.99–103; Meyer, Village Indians, pp.79–80; Field Notes, p. 172; Thw. 1:245. Plus, hey… Berdaches, those plains Indian men who dressed and acted as women, caught the captains' attention but evaded their understanding. First mentioned by Clark in late December 1804, the berdaches were described as "men dressed in squars [squaws] clothes." … What he perceived as gender confusion or homosexuality was actually something quite outside his own experience.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=berdaches&r=67 (Dictionary.com):

1 entry found for berdaches.

ber·dache (br-dsh)
n. Usage Problem

Among certain Native American peoples, a person, usually a male, who assumes the gender identity and is granted the social status of the opposite sex.

ber·dachism n. Usage Note: Due to the derogatory implications implicit in the etymology of berdache, contemporary Native Americans have suggested that its scholarly use be discontinued. Among the alternatives in current use, the most widely employed is two-spirit. Other scholars use specific native terms, such as winkte (from Lakota) or nadle (from Navajo), or else use a literal translation, such as “man-woman,” of a native word.

http://members.aol.com/matrixwerx/glbthistory/berdache.htm, Native America: Berdaches:

Over 130 different Native American tribes had a special category of men who wore women's clothing, spent their time doing "women's work" such as basket weaving and pottery, and held a sacred, spiritual role in the tribe. Berdaches had sex with other men, and marriages between a berdache and another man were common. Sometimes in a polygamous marriage, a berdache became a secondary "wife" to a male who was already married to one or more women.

Berdache status was never forced on anyone. It was determined by a person's character, social behavior, and occupational pursuits, and not sexual attraction. Sometimes these men became berdaches because of dreams, and sometimes as a result of rituals or tests.

Berdaches were revered as sacred, and even considered mystical. To have a berdache in one's family was a sign of luck and good fortune. They performed special roles in a variety of ceremonies and rituals. Berdaches were seen as half man and half woman, and performed as a mediator between men and women -- resolving conflicts, and serving as matchmakers. Berdaches were also believed to have mystical healing powers, and they were often taken into battle to care for the wounded.

With the arrival of Europeans in America, berdaches went into hiding. Their very lives were put in peril because they were viewed as "sodomites". Christian missionaries, in particular, encouraged their eradication. By the beginning of the 20th century, berdaches had almost been wiped out of existance.

http://www.nu-woman.com/berdache.htm, The Berdache Spirit, by Wendy Susan Parker:

In 1530, The Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca wrote in his diary of seeing "soft" native Indian males in Florida tribes dressing and working as women. Later, numerous reports by 17th century Spanish Conquistadors in the southwest, and 15th century writings by Catholic missionaries, French fur traders and British Colonists in the northwest confirmed the same phenomenon in other tribes. Cultural anthropologists later documented this "third gender" status in at least 120 other North American tribes and in numerous other cultures around the world.

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1805-01-05.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Washburn, ND (with the Mandan tribe, where they stayed the entire winter – 5 months); January 5, 1805:

“a Buffalow Dance (or Medison) [NB: medecine] for 3 nights passed in the 1st Village, a curious Custom the old men arrange themselves in a circle & after Smoke a pipe, which is handed them by a young man, Dress up for the purpose, the young men who have their wives back of the circle <Com> go to one of the old men with a whining tone and [NB?: request] the old man to take his wife (who presents necked except a robe) and—(or Sleep with him) the Girl then takes the Old man (who verry often can Scercely walk) and leades him to a Convenient place for the business, after which they return to the lodge, if the Old man (or a white man) returns to the lodge without gratifying the man & his wife, he offers her again and again; it is often the Case that after the 2d time <he> without Kissing the Husband throws a nice robe over the old man & and begs him not to dispise him, & his wife (we Sent a man to this Medisan <Dance> last night, they gave him 4 Girls)”

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/lewisclark/1997/village26.html (Bismarck Tribune), Families central to village life, by Ken Rogers:

As Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and company made their way up the Missouri River, they were struck by what they understood as the free love attitude of most of the tribes. At nearly every stop, Indian men would offer their wives to explorers for the night. As a result, Lewis and Clark had a warped view of Indian women, seeing them as denegrated. The explorers totally missed the fact that the Arikara, Mandan and Hidatsa cultures were matriarchal and that these societies placed a high value on women. Plus, hey … Approaching the Knife River villages, Henry wrote: "Near this place are great quantities of fruit, all perfectly ripe -- pears, chokecherries, red cherries, raspberries, and gooseberries.

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/introduction.v03.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton, Introduction to Volume 3, Vermillion River, SD:

Toussaint Charbonneau, an independent Canadian trader living at one of the Hidatsa villages (now called Sakakawea), had two Shoshone wives, natives of the Rocky Mountains along the continental divide and later captives of the Hidatsas. Charbonneau hired out his services and those of his consorts as interpreters for the trip across the mountains; in fact, only one of his wives, Sacagawea, who gave birth to a son during the winter, actually made the trip.

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1805-04-01.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Washburn, ND; April 1, 1805:

“one French man as an interpreter with his two wives” [3] … 3. Apparently the captains intended to take both of Charbonneau's wives along, but something unrecorded happening in the last few days at Fort Mandan resulted in Sacagawea's being the only one actually to make the trip.

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1805-04-05.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Washburn, ND (with the Mandan tribe, where they stayed the entire winter – 5 months); April 5, 1805:

“chastity is not very highly esteemed by these people”

http://www.lewisandclarkinkansas.com/tribal.html (Kansas State Historical Society), Lewis and Clark in Kansas: Tribal Nations: The Kanza Indians: Customs and Beliefs:

Kaw women looked after the children of the tribe and played a more domestic role than the men. … Men did practice polygamy, most commonly with a wife's sisters.

Encyclopedia of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Woodger / Toropov, 2004, pp. 316-317, “sex during the expedition”:

This high desire for York (the black man) indicates a desire for sexual diversity in looks, which is the key to a total Jesus Christ peace, love and brotherhood-of-man world: everything else (all other ethical issues) would eventually fall into place: a utopia. The Native Americans were not perfect, but they “could” have later been. Technically, today, because we live in such a fad influential society, all someone would have to do is create “a fad” to desire diversity in appearance, then it would become easily acceptable. That is simply something that Cosmo could easily create:

The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Barbara G. Walker, 1983, p. 919, “Sex”:

Human Sexuality, Masters / Johnson / Kolodny, 1992, p. 642, “An Anthropological Look at Human Sexuality”:

With effective birth control, the perfect ethical world is at hand, all we have to do is realize it.

Encyclopedia of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Woodger / Toropov, 2004, pp. 382-383, “York”:

And, these Native American “marriages” as the whites call it, may have (originally) been nothing more than just sexual liaisons, probably even temporary:

http://www.mopress.com/livepages/images/300.pdf (Missouri Press Association, December 3, 2003, p. 1, “Language”), & The Star, Lewis & Clark: Exploring Another America, “Language”:

“Not everything translates directly. For example, in

our language, there is not a word that means the same

thing as art. We also don’t have a word for wilderness,

places that are untrammeled by man and pristine and

need to be protected. That’s a notion that’s foreign.

And we don’t have words for husband and wife. We

have words for different ages of girls, different

familial relationships in our kinship system depending

on whether they’re on the mother’s or father’s side.

We have lots of terminology that describe loved ones,

old one, girl, little one, but nothing that translates

husband and wife.”

Bobbie Conner, Cayuse-Nez Perce, 2002

Missionary Women Open the Trails to Families; Exhibit at National Frontier Trails Museum, 318 W. Pacific, Independence, Missouri; “Letter from Abigail Smith, at Ft. Walla Walla to Rev. and Mrs. William Kirby, Mendon, Illinois, September 1840”:

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-10-12.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Mobridge, SD; October 12, 1804:

“The Ricaras, have a custom Similar to the Sioux in maney instances, they think they cannot Show a Sufficient acknowledgement without [giving?] to their guest handsom Squars [squaws] and think they are despised if they are not recved

The Sioux followed us with women two days we put them off. the Ricarries we put off dureing the time we were near their village— 2 were Sent by a man to follow us, and overtook us this evening, we Still procisted in a refusial—“ …

“a curious Cuistom with the Souix as well as the reckeres is to give handsom Squars to those whome they wish to Show Some acknowledgements to— The Seauix we got Clare of without taking their Squars, they followed us with Squars 13th two days. The Rickores we put off dureing the time we were at the Towns but 2 Handsom young Squars were Sent by a man to follow us, they Came up this evening and peresisted in their Civilities.”

Man, they can’t even go up the river without Indian women following them trying to get them to have sex with them. I would like to have seen that.

http://www.l3-lewisandclark.com/ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=31&ObjectID=284 (University of Idaho), Sacagawea:

Early on, they referred to her as the "squar," or squaw, an Algonquian word meaning prostitute, a word used both by Indians and whites to refer to Indian women.

I see why today’s dictionaries define “squaw” as an “offensive” word.

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-09-27.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Pierre, SD; (with the Sioux) September 27, 1804:

“They again offered me a young woman and wish me to take her & not Dispise them, I wavered [waived?] the Subject”

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/1804-10-15.html (University of Nebraska, Lincoln); Moulton; near Fort Yates, ND; (with the Arikara [Ricara] tribe) October 15, 1804:

“Those people are much pleased with my black Servent— Their womin verry fond of carressing our men.”

http://www.lewisclark.net/journals/index7.html; Journal Excerpts; near Warrenton. Oregon; (winter at Fort Clatsop with the Chinook tribe) December 29, 1805:

“The Chin-nook womin are lude and carry on sport publickly”

Encyclopedia of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Woodger / Toropov, 2004, p. 316, “sex during the expedition”:

I would image that it didn’t take long for the Indians to realize that they could make money/trade from the white man, after learning how sex depraved white men (lower military ranks) really were/are.

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/archive/idx_jou.html OR http://www.wetmaap.org/Fort_Clatsop/Supplement/fc_background.html; near Warrenton. Oregon; journal entry (winter at Fort Clatsop with the Chinook tribe) March 21, 1806:

“The women are much inclined to venery, and like those on the Missouri are sold to prostitution at an easy rate. An old Chin-ook squaw frequently visited our quarters with nine girls which she kept as prostitutes. To the honour of the Flatheads, who live on the west side of the Rocky Mountains, and extend some distance down the Columbia, we must mention them as an exception; as they do not exhibit those loose feelings of carnal desire, nor appear addicted to the common customs of prostitution: and they are the only nation on the whole route where any thing like chastity is regarded”

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/communications/Map/LewisClark.htm (Washington State Dept. of Transportation): Key to Lewis & Clark Points of Interest and Other Interesting Facts:

The corps came into contact with almost 50 different American native tribes.

There was so much sex that most everyone had venereal diseases (STD’s):

Encyclopedia of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Woodger / Toropov, 2004, p. 317, “sex during the expedition”:

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_012800_furtrade.htm (Encyclopedia of North American Indians), Fur Trade:

… More serious was a new element the Europeans could not effectively control—disease. Lacking immunity or resistance to many communicable germs, trading Indians seldom escaped outbreaks of epidemics such as measles, mumps, and influenza. Of these and many others, by far the greatest killer was smallpox, which reached every fur-producing region of North America between 1760 and 1890.

Antibodies (immunities) develop over time only for common diseases. Apparently, with 10,000? years of separation, there was no resistance to each others common diseases. All the more reason people and cultures need to touch to share newly developing viruses/bacteria in weak amounts; which is God’s natural vaccine. For the long term, separated cultures and monogamous marriage lessens the transfer of the important weak (non-harmful) amounts of new pathogens, causing sickness/death when these diseases are all-of-a-sudden attained at a much higher (harmful) degree.

http://www.aaanativearts.com/article566.html, American Indians see Lewis and Clark journey as beginning of end:

But to Native Americans who had lived on those rivers, plains and mountains for 10,000 years it was the beginning of something not far short of holocaust.

Within months settlers were pouring into their native lands bringing smallpox, scarlet fever and liquor. …

Native Americans, who numbered more than 10 million when European settlers arrived, could count only 250,000 by 1900 - recovering since to about 2 million.

http://www.kawnation.com/Culture/culthist.html, Kanza Cultural History: Post-Contact:

Demographers have estimated that, as a consequence of the white man's diseases (principally smallpox, cholera, and influenza), their population had been reduced perhaps to less than fifty percent, down to about 1,500 men, women and children by 1800.

After 10,000 plus years of separation, developing different antibody resistances to disease, when Europeans mixed with American Indians:

http://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html, Origins of Syphilis:

One hypothesis assumes a New World origin, and holds that sailors who accompanied Columbus and other explorers brought the disease back to Europe. … Ancient and medieval sources have long been cited as evidence for syphilis in Europe before Columbus, but none of the descriptions by Greek and Roman authors are specific enough to be certain. … the first unambiguous descriptions of syphilis begin around 1500.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religion, 1979, vol. ?, p. 3273, “SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE”:

Ready Reference: Ethics, Roth, 1994, vol. 1, p. 13, “Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)”:

www.k-state.edu/history/lynn/The%20Columbian%20Exchange.ppt, The Columbian exchange:

Contact between any two peoples geographically separated from one another results in an ‘exchange’ of physical elements. … In the exchange that started along the coast of Newfoundland and was made widespread by Columbus, Disease was the most negative for Indian peoples. Fatality rate over a period of two to three generations was 95% for many tribal groups. In some cases, as in the Mohegans case, the fatality rate could be 100%. Europeans believed that it was God’s will that Indians died. There was no germ theory at the time of contact. … Indians, who were largely “heathen” or non-Christian were regarded as sinners and therefore subject to illness as a punishment. … Not all pathogens traveled from Europe to the Americas. Syphilis, polio, hepatitis and encephalitis were new world diseases. … European disease was particularly virulent. Smallpox, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, chicken pox, bubonic plague, scarlet fever and influenza were the most common microbial diseases exchanged. Nearly all of the European diseases were communicable by air and touch. … Diseases, especially smallpox, were transported from the Caribbean to the mainland by the Cortez expedition in the 1630s. … Entire tribe of Mandans died in the winter of 1837-38. … Greater diversity meant more ecological protection.

Therefore, sexual “diversity” has to be the best way to fight future disease. And it’s God’s method.

Plus, there could also be another thing:

http://www.ivu.org/history/native_americans.html, History of Vegetarianism: Native Americans and Vegetarianism:

George Catlin, the famous nineteenth century Indian historian, described the Choctaw lands of southern Oklahoma in the 1840's this way: "...the ground was almost literally covered with vines, producing the greatest profusion of delicious grapes,...and hanging in such endless clusters... our progress was oftentimes completely arrested by hundreds of acres of small plum trees...every bush that was in sight was so loaded with the weight of its...fruit, that they were in many instances literally without leaves on their branches, and quite bent to the ground... and beds of wild currants, gooseberries, and (edible) prickly pear." …

More than one tribe has creation legends which describe people as vegetarian, living in a kind of Garden of Eden. A Cherokee legend describes humans, plants, and animals as having lived in the beginning in "equality and mutual helpfulness". The needs of all were met without killing one another. When man became aggressive and ate some of the animals, the animals invented diseases to keep human population in check. The plants remained friendly, however, and offered themselves not only as food to man, but also as medicine, to combat the new diseases.
More tribes were like the Choctaws than were different. Aztec, Mayan, and Zapotec children in olden times ate 100% vegetarian diets until at least the age of ten years old. The primary food was cereal, especially varieties of corn. Such a diet was believed to make the child strong and disease resistant. (The Spaniards were amazed to discover that these Indians had twice the life-span they did.) …

An incomplete list of other Indian foods given to the world includes bell peppers, red peppers, peanuts, cashews, sweet potatoes, avocados, passion fruit, zucchini, green beans, kidney beans, maple syrup, lima beans, decranberries, pecans, okra, chocolate, vanilla, sunflower seeds, pumpkin, cassava, walnuts, forty-seven varieties of berries, pineapple, and, of course, corn and popcorn.

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Coastal.htm (National Park Service); near Chinook, Washington; journal entry November 21, 1805:

“Several Indians visited us today of different nations or bands, some of the Chiltz Nation who reside on the seacoast near Point Lewis, several of the Clatsops who reside on the opposite side of the Columbia immediately opposite to us, and a Chief from the grand rapid to whom we gave a medal. An old woman & wife to a Chief of the Chinooks came and made a camp near ours. She brought with her 6 young squaws I believe for the purpose of gratifying the passions of the men of our party and receiving for those indulgences such small [tokens] as she (the old woman) thought proper to accept of. Those people appear to view sensuality as a necessary evil, and do not appear to abhor it as a crime in the unmarried state. The young females are fond of the attention of our men and appear to meet the sincere approbation of their friends and connections for thus obtaining their favors.” --Marriage was apparently not “needed” as an exclusive, sex-based condition.

http://www.lewisclark.net/journals/index6.html; near Chinook, Washington; journal entry November 21, 1805:

“The young women sport openly with our men”

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Coastal.htm (National Park Service); near Warrenton. Oregon; journal entry (winter at Fort Clatsop with the Chinook tribe) January 6, 1806:

“They do not hold the virtue [chastity] of their women in high estimation, and will even prostitute their wives and daughters for a fishing hook or a strand of beads.” … “Their women are permitted to speak freely before them, and sometimes appear to command with a tone of authority.”

On the west coast, sex for the “prostitution” conditions of a “fishing hook” or “a strand of beads” was probably only sought after the Indians found the earlier traders considered sex with the Indian woman as a type of gift or favor for them (it probably didn’t take long for the Indian women to sense it); therefore, the Indians simply sought favors in return. If a dog can learn “deeds for rewards” it in a matter of minutes, then a human should also be able to figure it out within several years.

Regardless, I am proving that when one has free food, then sexual monogamy is definitely not necessary.

http://www.answers.com/prostitution, US History, “Prostitution”:

Prostitution was a European import to North America, for the concept was foreign to Native American culture.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/arti1001_05.htm, Potlatch Records:

Sometimes in Indian tribes, Potlatch was a ceremony turning into an orgy! These habits were first studied by French ethnologist Marcel Mauss (in a book called 'L'essai sur le don').

http://www.embassy.org.nz/encycl/v1encyc.htm, General Info: Working Class, “Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857-1929) US economist”:

The counterpart ritual of the aboriginal community was the potlatch or orgy.

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Coastal.htm (National Park Service); near Warrenton. Oregon; journal entry (winter at Fort Clatsop with the Chinook tribe) December 24, 1805:

“He then offered a woman to each of us which we also declined accepting of, which displeased the whole party very much. The female part appeared to be highly disgusted at our refusing to accept of their favors”

http://www.urbandreamsproject.org/lessonplans/core/11/silko/docs/TRADITIONALVALUE.pdf, TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN VALUES (varies from tribe to tribe, this is merely a generalization of native American values prior to European influence):

POLYGAMY

A CONCEPT OF HEAVEN WHICH INCLUDED THINGS LATER PROSCRIBED BY THE EUROPEANS (smoking, hunting, promiscuous sexual activity

http://jollyroger.com/library1/OriginalNarrativesofEarlyAmericanHistoryebook.html, Original Narratives of Early American History Native Americans:

They are very much addicted to promiscuous intercourse. …

The women … are very much given to promiscuous intercourse. …

It would seem that they are very libidinous--in this respect very unfaithful to each other; whence it results that they breed but few children, so that it is a wonder when a woman has three or four children, particularly by any one man whose name can be certainly known. They must not have intercourse with those of their own family within the third degree, or it would be considered an abominable thing.

This also indicates that Indian women must have been more openly promiscuous than not, to not care who the father was. This also indicates that Indian culture generally did not care who children’s fathers were, denoting little or no “need” for financial child support from biological fathers.

http://www.gayly.com/articleprintview.ASP?articleid=75812848620040714143732, Sexual Scapegoats, by Paula Sophia:

European settlers in the New World have cast Native Americans as savages with unbridled sexual lust.

http://www.aaanativearts.com/article566.html, American Indians see Lewis and Clark journey as beginning of end (some Native American opposition):

Even after 200 years, tribal leaders are still angry over the way the journals of Lewis and Clark describe many of the Indians they met - as "vile miscreants," violence-prone, sexually promiscuous thieves. …

Their view - that the journals prove how little Lewis and Clark understood the Indians - is backed up by the late historian Stephen Ambrose in his 1996 book," Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West" (Simon & Schuster, $17 paperback).

In his journal, Lewis says Mandan tribal members eagerly offered their wives - "tawny damsels," he calls them - to the white men for sexual relations.

http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/serianni.html (Millersville University), Columbus and the Age of Discovery: Linda Serianni, When Worlds Collide: Portrait of an American Indian:

Vespucci also makes accounts of the American Indians … The natives have no fear or shame in nudity. They were considered sexual free and lust full without marriages. Sharing of a wife or a daughter was a sign of hospitality from the native. The natives appeared child-like or naive to some visitors because of their nudity. In other writings they were called doll-like. The female nude often represented America, the continent. (Lunenfeld,1991) … Spaniards considered tribal leaders immortal because of polygamy, which was common among the Indians. Vespucci took account of this in his writings. (Kallendorf,1995) … Natives were accused of homosexuality … While others thought the natives were the lost people from the New Testament. The new world was the Garden of Eden and the natives were residents of the Garden "without sin." (Hart, 1994) … The Europeans were amazed with the abundance of food in America. (Lunenfeld, 1991)

http://www.tims.net/bible/nkjv/matthew-18.htm, Matt. 18:3 (Jesus speaking):

And said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_021.html, Why was America named after Amerigo Vespucci?:

Vespucci came to the world's attention chiefly through the publication in 1503 and 1504 of two brief letters he purportedly wrote to Lorenzo de Medici about a voyage undertaken for the king of Portugal. Obviously the work of an educated man (the Vespuccis were a prosperous family in Florence), the letters managed to be both scholarly and entertaining, combining a sober discussion of navigational issues with the news that the natives of the New World would have sex with anybody, including Mom. Vespucci, or perhaps his anonymous publisher, also had the wit to entitle the first letter Novus Mundus, the New World, an audacious and as it turned out accurate claim.

http://members.tripod.com/~warlight/MELDAN.html, Squaws and Princesses or Corn Maidens: Misconceptions and Truths about Native American Women by Meldan Tanrýsal:

Upon their arrival in the New World, European explorers began to draw pictures and write descriptions of the land and the native peoples they encountered. However, their descriptions of the native women were negative and seemed to possess the characteristics attributed to the "Squaw". Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci and the explorers who accompanied them depicted the women as submissive, compliant, docile and alternatively as intractable, lascivious and insatiable.

http://www.pucrs.br/famecos/iamcr/textos/brandon.pdf, Deconstructing the Image of the “Indigenous Woman” in Popular Culture, by Sara E. Brandon:

Disgust and attraction to the women make them objects of Vespucci´s voyeurism: The women as I have said go about naked and are very libidinous … Berkhofer define the bad savage: … Nakedness and lechery, passion and vanity led them to live lives of polygamy and sexual promiscuity among themselves

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0300/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0300/stories/0301_0112_00.html

Bourgmont Journal – October 22, 1724 [describing the Padoucas tribe, up the Kansas River]:

Some of the Indians have as many as four wives.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/ponywars/page1.html, Plains Indians, “Crow”:

Unfortunately they also had a reputation for being sexually promiscuous and adulterous.

http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/new_orleans.html, New Orleans, “The Early Years”:

in a 1751 report in which he judged Native Americans by dominant European values, Jean Bernard Bossu said of the Choctaw, "They are morally quite perverted, and most of them are addicted to sodomy.”

Click on the word “Sodomy” at the above website and you get this definition:

Coined around 1050 by St. Peter Damian to denote sexual activity between men, "sodomy" is a shortened form of "the sin of Sodom," referring to the Genesis account of the men of Sodom who tried to have intercourse [it doesn’t say sexual] with two angels and were smitten with blindness. Historically, the exact meaning of "sodomy" has varied across time and place. Although in the early modern periods it often referred to undifferentiated vice, including heresy and treason, its meaning gradually became more specific, referring usually to sex between men--especially anal intercourse.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0379158.html (Dictionary), “coin”:

—v.t. 3. to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression.

http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/99/projects/galloway.html, Colin G. Galloway, New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, “A World of Dreams and Bibles”:

Ramon A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (1991), offers a controversial discussion of the Spanish missionaries' assault on the sexual practices and culture of the Pueblos.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_4_40/ai_112247859, A map of the world: charting sex, race, and ethnicity - Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers - Book Review:

Chapter 3 opens with accounts of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci in the "New World" and provides numerous examples of the sexual portraits Europeans painted of the native population they found. Europeans, portraying themselves as civilized, contrasted with images of savage, depraved Indian men and beautiful but licentious native women. Sexual stereotypes reinforced ethnic and racial differences and were used to justify violence against Indians. --Yeah, kind of like what the Catholics did to the Chistian Cathars.

http://www.oldstatehouse.com/pdf/Vol%209_Teacher%20Guide.pdf (The Arkansas News), Teachers Guide, Spring 88, “The Indians of Arkansas”:

“When I arrived among the Arkansas, the young (Quapaw) warriors welcomed me with the calumet dance. I should tell you, sir, that these people dance for many different reasons; there are dances dealing with religion, medicine, joy, ritual, war, peace, marriage, death, play, hunting, and lewdness. This last dance has been abolished since our arrival in America.” — Jean Bernard Bossu, 1751 Yeah, I can see why war and hunting would be okay, but that lewdness had to go. And if the church today had to choose between killin’ and lovin’, they’d certainly prioritize to stop the lovin’. I’m the only “one” who has the answers to change it. But I don’t bootlick, so it’s not going to get … understood. The reason I can’t bootlick is because I am writing as God’s secretary; therefore, I write what God what’s me to write, and God cannot bootlick (to curry favor), because it would be a lie just to say want the human wants to hear. Ironically, the truth and logic which I write is for the human, even though the human thinks it doesn’t want or need it. But, God still wants it good / better simply because the humans are fully a part of God. I know everyone prays for what “they” want; but, only someone that has sacrificed their entire life for God, like I have, is able to “hear” what “God” wants, which also requires a deep thinking process. You see, my kingdom (like Jesus said) is not of this era.

http://ethnobotany.yage.net/article2.html, Cultural Role of Peyote in Native American Society:

From its introduction from northeastern Mexico to the Apache in 1770, then to the Oklahoma reservationas a center of diffusion in the 1870's, peyote [a hallucinogenic drug] has spread throughout the continent and has become part of over 70 tribes. It has become "the most popular and widespread inter-tribal Native American religious movement" (Anderson 1996:44). Peyote has not been a movement without its own persecution though. The Canadian and U.S. governments arrested people and prohibited the free use of peyote from the very beginning. Misinformation and wild rumors of sexual orgies, deaths, and other atrocious misdeeds, were the tool of lawmakers and Christian groups to stamp out these so called "pagan practices".

Fundamentals of Human Sexuality, Katchadourian, 1989, p. 592:

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1897, p. 3528, “love”:

Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, 1972, p. 1160, “virginity”:

http://www.crt.state.la.us/crt/ocd/arch/losadaes/_html/LDA1028.htm, “Segesser Hide Painting” (Segesser 2):

The painting, on buffalo hide, shows Pawnee and Oto Indians fighting Spanish and French soldiers in 1720. … Source: Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe (The battle was fought near Omaha, NE. More correctly, it was the French fighting the Spanish, each with Native allies.)

In white man’s society, for sexual cover-up reasons only (to strictly sustain sexual desire for just marriage), it is illegal to be naked in public. Notice how the Indians are pretty much naked, indicating no sexual cover-up. And that is some full frontal nudity on those guys.

http://palaceofthegovernors.org/collections.html, Palace of the Governors:

Segesser Hide Paintings
These are the first known depictions of Spanish colonial life in the United States and illustrate the ambush in present-day Nebraska of a 1720 expedition led by the Lt. Governor of New Mexico.

http://louisserna.com/issue50.html, The Sernas of New Mexico, “Chapter VI: Defending the northern Frontiers”:

The Scene of the “Core” of the Spaniards defense in the battle
of August 14, 1720, that is known as “The Villasur Expedition.

Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace, Bishop / Osthelder, 2001, p. 83, “Matrimony and Partnership | Types of Marriage”:

P. 490, “Sexual Crucibles | Paradise Spoiled?”:

P. 492, “Pre-conquest Peru”:

(Regarding sexual images on pottery):

P. 495, “Spanish Condemnation”:

People commit suicide only because they are trying to escape their suffering. And, that can be from health, love life, and/or financial burden / job. Love life can be fixed with diversity in open sex. Financial burden / job will be a lot less demanding when welfare becomes more fair with fair advancements included: We’re all working to the point where we all won’t have to work anymore. If society never sees any relief for this, there will be more and more unnecessary burdens.

Ancient Mexico (Mayan, Teotihuacan):

The reason we are adamant about not changing our sex / marriage / love standards:

http://www.galileoweb.org/arquillos/2005/08/18:

The Monte Alban site includes an ancient 'ball' game field where competitors often played a game to determine who would be sacrificed to the gods. You'ld think the winner would get to live, but many archeologists believe that the opposite was true!

The winner was sacrificed because the gods didn´t want losers, they wanted winners.

http://www.prometour.com/US/educational_tours/find_a_trip_detail.asp?Country=mexico&Itin=15, Mexico: LA RUTA DE LA MAYA, “MERIDA – CHICHEN ITZA – PLAYA DEL CARMEN”:

Imagine the Pok-Ta-Pok Maya ball game being played one thousand years ago in the ball court. Winners would be sacrificed to the gods!

People trying hard to win a game so they can be killed: This just shows how everyone is just a product of their environment. Today we think we are all self thinkers, but we’re not. I, personally, am constantly reminded of this fact from my dealing with others. The majority influence of our society easily has so much control of our minds that we would truly give our lives for it. The incredible thing is that we don’t realize it. Even I think I’m a complete self thinker, but I’m not. Of course, this is a fact that’s not going to change. The importance thing is, we just need to realize it. Changing the minds of women that have been taught that sharing their body is something that is to be earned, is way beyond solution, because none of them are smart and/or honest enough to first admit that “earning it” is what they require: they’ve all be taught that it is “love.” But that is a self-centered kind of love asking “what can that person do for me,” not a true Christian / Goldenrule kind of love asking “what can I do for them”; because, if sex was it, they wouldn’t allow it until the man had proven they deserve it; just like food. Whether it be love or war, we are taught how to believe. Only in extreme cases like Vietnam, Operation Iraqi Freedom, etc. do some of us begin to realize it.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Guatemala/Tikal/index.html, The Mayan City of Tikal:

The Mayans used these courts to play sports with rubber balls, and these games had strong religious significance. The lucky winners of the games were tied up and sacrificed on the round altars shown in the photograph on the left. The Mayans considered this lucky because anyone who was sacrificed was believed to get a better afterlife. I suspect that for the average Mayan any sort of afterlife would be better than the life of hard work, heavy construction and warfare which they endured. –Well, they’ve got a point there.

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