Indigenous Stories Reveal the Fragility of Precontact Life

The threats of famine and starvation were ever present

Don’t miss reading the complimentary piece below written by educator and essayist Igor Stravinsky (a pseudonym he uses to protect his teaching position), dispelling the notion that the pre-indigenous people of the New World were living in a veritable Garden of Eden, a notion I dispelled in the following piece titled The Myth of Indigenous Utopia — see l…