Native American Artifacts

by IP_SEC 31 Replies latest jw friends

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  RichieRich

  Well, I just couldn't restrain myself.

  Here's most of the good ones in mycollection:

  

  And there here's a close up of the tang knife (next to it is some sort of money):

  
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  RichieRich

  The spear point on the left side, near the middle actually has blood stains on it still...

  I always thought that was cool....
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  colorado5591

  hey! I live in San Angelo! Yay! You know, Matt is like tha master arrowhead hunter! He even used to make them from random pieces if broken glass cause he is cool like that. He is also real good at finding and exploring indian caves....mmmm I smell a road trip!
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  colorado5591

  Those are wicked awesome Rich! If you are Matt's brotha frum anotha motha, will you be my brotha too?
  Please?!?
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  desbah

  hey i'm full blooded dine'...and we are taught not to mess around with artifacts, it's part of our culture to respect what was in the past and leave it alone.
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  colorado5591

  oops Matty and Rich. You got told!!!!
  
  Bwahahaha!
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  RichieRich

  it's part of our culture to respect what was in the past and leave it alone.

  
  

  
  Well please forgive me if my possession of those artifacts has offended you.

  I would think that people looking for arrowheads would be a sort of homage to the Native American culture.

  I have always had a fascination with Indians because of their skills as hunters. They amaze me.

  If you are Matt's brotha frum anotha motha, will you be my brotha too?

  Sure Colorado! No problem. So you live in San Angelo? Ever hear of T.O. and Oteka McLean?

  Ok, Know this guy?
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  Undecided

  When I was a little boy I would find arrow heads pretty often where I lived in the country. I put them in a shoe box and my mother threw them out in the back yard one day. I wish I had them now.

  Ken P.
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  desbah

  Well please forgive me if my possession of those artifacts has offended you.

  I would think that people looking for arrowheads would be a sort of homage to the Native American culture.

  I have always had a fascination with Indians because of their skills as hunters.

  i think your possessions of arrowheads are part of your personality, it gives me a direction of who you are.

  for me what i find disturbing is when ppl go out of their way to searching and destroy from a holy site. this is a taboo for most native american cultures.

  i was taught to you keep yourself and your young children away from artifacts and ruins and holy sites. you can tell them its there but not to disturb it out of respect.

  well you can always learn to make arrowheards and sell them to the tourist....it's a good thing!
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  IP_SEC

  
  desbah,

  We arent talking about molesting sacred spots. Finding these tools laying on the ground is really no different than finding an old shovel head or musket ball in your back yard. Even what we call "indian mounds" in this part of the country are nothing more than native american trash piles. Not cerimonial or burial sites.

  The land, the trees, water, and animals had a certain sacredness. If you live in the US, your house is probably built on land that was sacred to them. The real shame is in the imperialism that nearly caused the demise of a race of humans. Sure, these artifacts are exciting to find, but speaking for myself, and probalby Rich too, as descendants those artifacts are as much a part of us as they were of the makers. Their preservation preserves the culture that WE killed.

  It it were a major archiological find, then let the experts handle that.

  Finding these treasures before a shoping mall is built over them or before someone drives over them is important to me. It gives me an opportunitiy to be closer to my hertitage.

  Great collection Rich!

  colorado5591... mmm road trip! lol