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Garden Master
Plant and other critter breeding ... my first flock of chickens post-farm kid were @baymule's "dirty birdies" that my brother gave me. Oh, they were nice hens but ended up in soup after I learned what limited performance they had with their season of laying. We are all interested in the plant lines in our gardening environments. Where do we fit in?
If we are of northern European ancestry, like most of mine, we can go back to those folks seasonally chasing cows around from mountain meadows to valley corrals. That might be about it for agriculture until a few thousand years ago when the plow made its way north. I find it interesting that archeological records of Indigenous People here have shown that tobacco didn't just arrive by long distant trade routes but that the hunter gatherers here were growing it. And, recent research shows that the horse was traded out of Mexico far earlier than the Spanish arrival in what is now the US.Of course, some native people were very involved in agriculture before the great displacement experiences they went through.
I've struggled to learn about my Native American heritage. How does my oldest uncle's statement that "Aunt Sis" was a "full-blooded Cherokee" fit with some historical records showing nothing but names and dates and their move to Choctaw country – coming through Arkansas immediately after the Civil War. What a mess that generation was in! It made sense that they were coming from the Philadelphia area, well outside of Cherokee country, if they had avoided the mess about 40-50 years earlier, carried out in their homeland.
Can't change history. But, it's difficult to learn about people living in some periods of time. For sure, we can't change history by not reading about it. Live in the moment? Sure. Right where I am but I did not come to be here all on my own. No sir.
Other branches of the family traced all the way back to the earliest European settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts. And, that "Dutch paternal grandfather," was his family already in the UK before he climbed on a British ship, arrived and began his boat building on Chesapeake Bay? How long before he migrated was that immigrant family there? No record. But, I just learned yesterday that this rather obscure Dutch name is found in families in Indonesia. Cousins? Hey, ya know, it all makes historical sense! ...
Steve
If we are of northern European ancestry, like most of mine, we can go back to those folks seasonally chasing cows around from mountain meadows to valley corrals. That might be about it for agriculture until a few thousand years ago when the plow made its way north. I find it interesting that archeological records of Indigenous People here have shown that tobacco didn't just arrive by long distant trade routes but that the hunter gatherers here were growing it. And, recent research shows that the horse was traded out of Mexico far earlier than the Spanish arrival in what is now the US.Of course, some native people were very involved in agriculture before the great displacement experiences they went through.
I've struggled to learn about my Native American heritage. How does my oldest uncle's statement that "Aunt Sis" was a "full-blooded Cherokee" fit with some historical records showing nothing but names and dates and their move to Choctaw country – coming through Arkansas immediately after the Civil War. What a mess that generation was in! It made sense that they were coming from the Philadelphia area, well outside of Cherokee country, if they had avoided the mess about 40-50 years earlier, carried out in their homeland.
Can't change history. But, it's difficult to learn about people living in some periods of time. For sure, we can't change history by not reading about it. Live in the moment? Sure. Right where I am but I did not come to be here all on my own. No sir.
Other branches of the family traced all the way back to the earliest European settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts. And, that "Dutch paternal grandfather," was his family already in the UK before he climbed on a British ship, arrived and began his boat building on Chesapeake Bay? How long before he migrated was that immigrant family there? No record. But, I just learned yesterday that this rather obscure Dutch name is found in families in Indonesia. Cousins? Hey, ya know, it all makes historical sense! ...
Steve