Dan Flores

to a degree that, um, native people are, they don't want this to happen, but I think it'll swing back.

Well, when I mean, you guys all know this as well as I do. But, you know, when you're when you're doing history, history, we always think of history, especially professionally and in the academy. We think of that as being something you do from written sources. And, of course, written sources. only exists for the human story back to about 3,500, 4,000 years ago.

Well, when I mean, you guys all know this as well as I do. But, you know, when you're when you're doing history, history, we always think of history, especially professionally and in the academy. We think of that as being something you do from written sources. And, of course, written sources. only exists for the human story back to about 3,500, 4,000 years ago.

Well, when I mean, you guys all know this as well as I do. But, you know, when you're when you're doing history, history, we always think of history, especially professionally and in the academy. We think of that as being something you do from written sources. And, of course, written sources. only exists for the human story back to about 3,500, 4,000 years ago.

And beyond that, we have no written stories. And so that sort of implies that, okay, so if you're interested in history, that's the end of it. 4,000 years back, you don't have any history anymore. There's no way. I'm not satisfied with that, obviously, because that's a very small slice of the human story. And the

And beyond that, we have no written stories. And so that sort of implies that, okay, so if you're interested in history, that's the end of it. 4,000 years back, you don't have any history anymore. There's no way. I'm not satisfied with that, obviously, because that's a very small slice of the human story. And the

And beyond that, we have no written stories. And so that sort of implies that, okay, so if you're interested in history, that's the end of it. 4,000 years back, you don't have any history anymore. There's no way. I'm not satisfied with that, obviously, because that's a very small slice of the human story. And the

And so, I mean, my whole take on something like writing that chapter about what I call Native America after the Pleistocene extinctions and the Holocene period began in North America, I try to write a chapter about the next 10,000 years, which takes you down to 500 years ago when

And so, I mean, my whole take on something like writing that chapter about what I call Native America after the Pleistocene extinctions and the Holocene period began in North America, I try to write a chapter about the next 10,000 years, which takes you down to 500 years ago when

And so, I mean, my whole take on something like writing that chapter about what I call Native America after the Pleistocene extinctions and the Holocene period began in North America, I try to write a chapter about the next 10,000 years, which takes you down to 500 years ago when

when Europeans and old-worlders began arriving in North America, I was trying to sort of satisfy my own curiosity about that because I couldn't really find very many people who had ventured a guess as to how that story had unfolded. And in a book like that, where I was interested primarily in the relationship between animals and people, I was trying to figure out how...

when Europeans and old-worlders began arriving in North America, I was trying to sort of satisfy my own curiosity about that because I couldn't really find very many people who had ventured a guess as to how that story had unfolded. And in a book like that, where I was interested primarily in the relationship between animals and people, I was trying to figure out how...

when Europeans and old-worlders began arriving in North America, I was trying to sort of satisfy my own curiosity about that because I couldn't really find very many people who had ventured a guess as to how that story had unfolded. And in a book like that, where I was interested primarily in the relationship between animals and people, I was trying to figure out how...

that it happened that when Europeans get here 500 years ago, they land on a continent that they're so impressed with. Now, maybe it's just a comparison to what they had done to Europe, but they're really impressed with the biological diversity of North America. It's kind of an Eden for the animals.

that it happened that when Europeans get here 500 years ago, they land on a continent that they're so impressed with. Now, maybe it's just a comparison to what they had done to Europe, but they're really impressed with the biological diversity of North America. It's kind of an Eden for the animals.

that it happened that when Europeans get here 500 years ago, they land on a continent that they're so impressed with. Now, maybe it's just a comparison to what they had done to Europe, but they're really impressed with the biological diversity of North America. It's kind of an Eden for the animals.

And so the question was, how did we get from 10,000 years ago down to 500 years ago where native people managed to preserve all that? And that presented, obviously, a lot of a lot of questions to try to answer. And I'm sure there'll be people who improve on that story that I told.

And so the question was, how did we get from 10,000 years ago down to 500 years ago where native people managed to preserve all that? And that presented, obviously, a lot of a lot of questions to try to answer. And I'm sure there'll be people who improve on that story that I told.

And so the question was, how did we get from 10,000 years ago down to 500 years ago where native people managed to preserve all that? And that presented, obviously, a lot of a lot of questions to try to answer. And I'm sure there'll be people who improve on that story that I told.

But that was kind of my own attempt to do something about the Native American story that I didn't see anybody else really making a stab at trying to interpret, probably because it's too daunting.