An excellent presentation, very enlightening! I would like to comment where towards the end she mentioned that the pioneers really didn't find such a pristine environment. I would agree. In much of the southeastern and lower Midwestern states the pioneers discovered canebrakes that covered hundreds of acres in many river valleys. A canebrake is a pure or nearly pure stand of rivercane (Arundinaria gigantea). This plant was valuable to the Native Americans. It had many uses and as such it was nicknamed "Cherokee plastic." Ecologists now realize that the Native Americans grew it in some fields or at the edges of croplands. Once old world diseases (mainly smallpox) came through and knocked their numbers down the untended fields were rapidly taken over by the rivercane thus creating the massive canebrakes that the pioneers saw and mistook as being purely natural. Canebrakes did exist without human help but most likely weren't as large.
@joanhuffman2166
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In addition to Cotton Mather and Onsimus, Lady Mary Maitland observed and recorded the practice of variolation in the Ottoman empire while her husband was the ambassador. She had her own son inoculated. She herself had had a particularly bad case of smallpox and was scarred badly. Lady Mary Maitland wrote about it and her story was presented to the Royal Society. The practice of variolatation seems to have been developed twice. Once in India and once in China. The Indian practice involved putting a small amount of pus in a scratch or cut on the person. The chinese practice involved grinding dried scabs and blowing a small amount up the nose.
@ramonmarcelo6445
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Frank Snowden brought me here. Thank you RM
@wilfdarr
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Also, I know the internet says 'Blackfeet' is the plural of 'Blackfoot', but I've never heard a Blackfoot person use the word 'Blackfeet'. Those I've heard have always said 'Blackfoot family', 'Blackfoot people', or 'Blackfoot nation', or 'Blackfoot Confederacy'. I admit this may simply be a regionalism from southern Alberta, but if you haven't confirmed with someone from the Siksika, I'd refrain from that participation terminology until you do as at best it's an anglicization, but at worst a misrepresentation.
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