-=> Quoting Dennis Martin to Sondra Ball <=-
 DM> With the diversity of the NA culture as it's presently known, you can
 DM> find  examples of anything you choose to.  I can point to the Northwest
 DM> Coastal  peoples and the Southwest Puebloen peoples as well who were
 DM> not  expansionistic.  
 
 Actually, I suspect that some Northwest Coast tribes _were_, indeed
 expansionists. 
 DM> I guess it all depends upon what point you're trying to make, as to
 DM> who you  use for an example.
 
 That's very, very true.  
 Some of these discussions in cyberspace can get real interesting. I have
 a gentleman from the UK on "another line" who is asking about information
 on someone (from the UK) who was _supposedly_ an Oregon Trail wagonmaster
 (which dates him around the 1840s-1850s) who returned to England and then
 came _back_ to the U.S. to "teach the Indians east of the Mississippi to
 be farmers". I responded that I thought it curious that the man would
 teach farming to Indians that had known about farming for years. I
 suppose, however, that the Indians this man was teaching had "lost" the
 traditional culture.
 Jim  
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