"Hopewell" People Continued

 The American Indian participants in the great exchange system which extended the length of the Mississippi and well beyond were not only long distance traders and of deep religious convictions, but were also experienced managers and husbandmen of wide resources. 


They were hunters of wild game. Their most respected weapon was of a type used by their ancient ancestors. Those ancestors had hunted game that was, indeed, large.  They had hunted the mega-fauna of song and legend and paleontology. The weapons they used was the spear thrower, the atlatl, and its spear like dart.  I  have heard the very word, atlatl, used in chants to the great drum and to smaller ones too. Our long distance traders of the waterways also obtain game using sophisticate trapping techniques, bow and arrow, spear and more


Yes, I am writing of "Mound Builders."


Their religion was strong and important and their mounds are evidence of 'religious' centers. Oral histories can tell us much of their religion. Old physical remains have also informed us. Their most beautifully crafted objects seemed to have had little or no economic or practical use. Was it 'art for art's sake?' Why were very many of the best of these objects carefully buried in the mounds with their dead.


These people were not us. Like us in important ways? Yes. But we benefit from realizing that they saw the world from a viewpoint very much their own. We benefit by knowing that not everyone categorizes the objects and doings of reality as we do.


For example, the famous 'mounds' to which w have tended to give religious cognizance, or to consider cemeteries, may well have been focal points of trade, commerce, and social gatherings. They may have been teaching and scientific centers. There is much we do not know.

"Enmismado"

~ I am ready to learn to be helped today. I am ready and willing to learn to be helped here.I am ready willing and able to learned to be helped now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to let myself be helped today.
~ I am willing to believe that it is okay for me to be with others a bit more today.
~ I am ready to learn to better my condition today.
~ I am willing to better know what I mean by "my condition" today.
~ I am willing to have a continuing flow of incoming wealth today. 
~ I am willing to take action to know myself better today.
~ I am willing to be well poised and kind today.
~ I am willing to acknowledge that my ability to speak Spanish is not improving today.
~ I propose to increase my income today. I intend to increase my income here. I seek to increase my income now.
~ I am willing to have my resources more clearly in mind today.

Wealth and Resources

I imagine that you have some interest in wealth and resources. You probably have some questions about them. I do. Some of them may be similar to yours. Some the the questions that I have about public wealth and resources are listed below:
~ What are the wealth and resources in the U.S.?
~ What wealth and resources are fairly available to you and me?
~ Which parts of wealth and resources have not been monetized?
~ What percentage of U.S. wealth and resources are in the hands of the richest 10% of us? How much more do you want to let them have?
~ Is information a valuable resource? Where is a trustworthy source?
~ Which are the main resources in the U.S.? Who controls them?
~ Is blood a resource? Is life? Is sweat? Is time?
~ Are cooperation and organization resources?
~ What does cooperation have to do with wealth?
~ What questions do you have? What answers?