Do Native People Change the Environment?

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I mean, there's also, I mean, so much of your work is about how, uh, native people who you know, again, our white European conception is, Oh, lived in partnership with the land. And that these folks were causing wide scale changes to the environment in their own way - not to a smaller degree than we are. Is that a comforting thought or is that a depressing thought to you? Well, I guess it's a, it's a overall it's a comforting thought, um, in the sense that people make, yeah, and people change stuff. And we've always done it. Um, and maybe there was some perfect, egenic world, but

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.