[Grovenet] Genesis 4:9

[b Smith]

Funny!
Poor "taste" indeed!
Thanks for the laugh, Walt!

Barb

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Walt Wentz <waltw at teleport.com> wrote:

> >  Our ancestors if they came then went through some terrible times.
> >Some of them starved. Some of them ended up roasted over the fires
> >of indigenous people.
>
> Eh... exactly where did you learn your anthropology? There are some
> first-contact traveler's tales of cannibalism among the Caribs of the
> islands and perhaps some Florida tribes also, but in the mainland
> America of historic times, reports of cannibal Indian tribes were
> probably mere slanders by tribal enemies.
>
> If anything, the offense went the other way. I am thinking of a
> sure-enough Western hero, a mountain man named Jeremiah Johnson. He
> went by the endearing nickname of "Liver-Eating" Johnson, since  he
> had the quaint habit of hunting down and killing Crow (Absaroka)
> warriors and eating their livers-- raw. In extenuation, this little
> dietary peculiarity was not due to some mental aberration or vitamin
> deficiency, but was a long-drawn-out revenge for the murder of his
> Indian wife by the Crows. Johnson supposedly continued his epicurean
> vendetta against the Absaroka for more than 20 years, but eventually
> relented-- gaining the distinction of being the only person to sign
> an individual peace treaty with an entire Indian tribe.
> I will refrain from humorous commentary, which would probably be in poor
> taste.
> Walt
>
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