Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On 2024-04-07, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 00:52:15 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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I think the Comanches went from mostly farming (part of the Shoshone
tribes, I believe) to one of the most aggressive tribes on the plains.
Somehow they REALLY adapted to horse riding. More so than any other
tribe.

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That's a quick overview of the Shoshone.  When you live in the Great Basin
you eat anything you can find. I don't know if they cultivated wild rice
or harvested it when they found it. They had a hard life. Horses were a
definite improvement over dogs.

Well some of them became "Comanches" while others stayed mostly peaceful in
Idaho, Wyoming and Utah.

That's interesting. The variety of Indian tribes in this country is
(was) amazing. I enjoy reading from the "Encyclopedia of Native American
Tribes" sometimes (more or less randomly) just because of that variety.
I think the book is basically published for school children so even I
can follow along.

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It wasn't the big happy family some people would have you believe and
still isn't to some extent. In this area the Blackfeet were a problem for
the more peaceful tribes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate_Canyon
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Supposedly the name came from French trappers who came upon the skeletons
and other signs of mayhem and labeled it the gates of hell. If you're
headed for the buffalo ranges it's the easy way along the river otherwise
you're going to be doing a lot of mountaineering.
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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586693
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NPR throws a little spin on it but in all their travels the only time the
Lewis & Clark expedition found it necessary to shoot Indians was when they
ran into Blackfeet.

When we lived in Great Falls my younger brother ran around with a guy that
was half Blackfoot (he had Blackfeet friends). One of his friends him told
him that the Blackfeet were always looking for a fight. If they "didn't have
anyone else to fight, they fought each other."

Back east the Iroquois were a similar problem for the Algonquins, Crees,
and the rest of the neighbors. 'The Last of the Mohicans' takes a lot of
liberties but the Mohawks, the eastern part of the Iroquois confederacy,
did a lot to make Mohicans scarce. The Hudson River was more or less the
dividing line.

I've heard about the Iroquois. They didn't seem to be very "genteel." 

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