On 5/13/07, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...Native Americans on this continent used polyculture interplanting corn, beans, and squash.
The ones that *did* till the soil, such as the Cherokee, were put under intense pressure by the whites, who felt that as long as theiir farms were communal/collective, they were still considered to be savages and their property rights jeopordized, even though they followed the settler's injunction that they till, and not forage or gather. Leigh
