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He frequently addresses the reader in tones of surprise when he discusses the depth and richness of aboriginal society, as though the pre-European inhabitants of North America were like dancing dogs: animals who had learned some amusing tricks.

Archive 2010-01-01 Ulysses 2010

He frequently addresses the reader in tones of surprise when he discusses the depth and richness of aboriginal society, as though the pre-European inhabitants of North America were like dancing dogs: animals who had learned some amusing tricks.

Book Report: Myths of the North American Indians, by Lewis Spence Ulysses 2010

Even the harshness in drought is exciting – the land seems occupied by pre-European presences and its absolute colours of sky and red soil and saltbush take on endless subtleties according to the light.

Travel: Dickens down under Thomas Keneally 2010

No local little farmer produced veggies at that time, because they could "buy everything in the shops now" and also had the money for it in contrast to the old, pre-European Union days.

Out of Ireland (7): Cats & Broccoli 2010

I read it when it came out and it has a lotof analysis of recent archaelogical finds about what pre-European civilization was really like in the Americas.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain? 2009

I read it when it came out and it has a lotof analysis of recent archaelogical finds about what pre-European civilization was really like in the Americas.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain? 2009

Certainly, we put every effort into attempting to destroy all remnants of pre-European colonial customs, religions and social and political order among the first nations.

Weekend reading: George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca 2009

Such activities would be useful in directing landscape trajectories to recreate patch and disturbance patterns more characteristic of pre-European settlement conditions.

Blue Mountains forests 2008

Beyond Inca religion, the ice mummies may speak to larger questions of how the largest and most powerful civilization in pre-European America achieved cultural and political cohesion.

Children Of The Ice 2008

Hurricanes interacted with fire to create the complex forest structure of the pre-European settlement forest and the variation in bottomland forest that allowed renewal and regeneration.

Beyond Old Growth~ Chapter 5 2008