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I just got back from a lecture with Wade Davis, the author of The Serpent and the Rainbow. He's an ethnobotanist and anthropologist, currently an explorer in residence for National Geographic. It was an amazing lecture about the disappearance of native cultures, there was one story in particular that he told that I thought you guys might find entertaining.
Wade had met an Inuit who's family had been forced to relocate by the Canadian government, but his grandfather refused to leave his home. The family took all his tools and weapons, thinking that he'd have no choice but to follow them. Instead, the old man went outside, dropped his drawers and relieved himself into his hand. He molded the feces into a knife as it froze, and then proceeded to butcher one of his dogs with it. He made a sled out of the bones and skin, and rode out into the arctic wilderness with his poop knife in his belt, never to be seen again.
I'm not sure if that's even possible,
Was it carbon scat, or stainless?
The guys credibility suffered from the very beginning. The native cultures are still here and if you look close enough, you'll see that only the outward appearances have changed.
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He made a sled out of the bones and skin, and rode out into the arctic wilderness with his poop knife in his belt, never to be seen again.
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