Uh, Is There a Conflict?

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Hawaiian culture is gone, but the amount of life lost was massive. I mean, these are people who within, you know, historical memory, lost 30, 40, 50, uh, percent of their people. And then we're terribly treated. It's such an incredibly sad story with that. That's, that's, I suppose a late at the end of the tunnel.

This week Adam welcomes an author whose book blew his mind more than perhaps any other. Americans are typically taught that prior to the arrival of European settlers, indigenous communities were sparsely populated, lacked technology, and did little to shape the natural landscape. But as this week’s guest Charles C. Mann’s 1491 tells Adam, the most recent research reveals that the American indigenous civilizations were sophisticated, dynamic, and massively populated. Purchase his books 1491 and 1493 at http://factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.