Originally Posted by
Islandeer
Consider that on Vancouver Island early immigrants were hunters and fisherman. Many also foraged for mushrooms and natural herbs etc. They brought their traditional, cultural and ceremonial practices from other cultures across the seas. These traditions were shared by elders with younger members of their family units. This transfer of knowledge was not passed on a piece of paper, it was done orally, passed down by those with the valuable life experiences.
Here is where it gets interesting, this sharing of traditional hunter gatherer knowledge did not just start upon getting off a boat in Nanaimo or Victoria. It defies logic to think it could have. So where did all of this critical cultural knowledge come from and how far back could these hunter gatherer traditional oral accounts go?
My feeling is that the all hunter gatherers are linked to the ancients, we have to be, that is why we survived and are here.
The obvious take away from my rant here is that white people too have oral histories that go far far back in time.
We too have always hunted...