Compared With The Ancients

Some are dinning in our ears that we are Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Finally!  Indeed there is a plus and minus for the explanation due between “professional” archaeologists and we who in no lesser terms are indeed “archeologists” as well!  I join so many concerning the sentiments shared of government assumptions and their presumption that they have any type of claim to our freedom OR identity.  To those who understand the Constitution or the Bill of Rights… to those who dare travel back further to see and understand pre-Colombian North America, we know the gross presumption of those who work for US in government.  The truth; which is small; of their spoken disdain for “looters & pot diggers” is only well placed for the few inconsiderate collectors that are dishonorable about any archeology, any grave site respect and any need to clean up or maintain after them-self.     

However, “the government” is completely wrong about any rights THEY might have to lands or sites which were NEVER theirs to possess and neither are they theirs to maintain.  Because they have assumed power through our tax dollars, they maintain stolen sites and lands from subjected, murdered ancient races of untold numbers.  Sadly scandal after scandal they went… following greed and dishonor.  Yes there is good in the reality of National Parks, and I have visited virtually all, yet that they think they themselves to have any “rights” at all to ancient sites BEFORE “we the people”… we rightly call a farce.

Many now realize that we are now in the midst of a people and a group of collectors who know far more about the spirit of The People, and the artifacts which represented their lives, than many critical “officials”.   I will add that there are indeed MANY great and wonderful anthropologists who support what we do… who uphold and cherish what we discover… and in many cases wish they were not subject to the “system” which often keeps them from their fascination.  Some are humble & gracious and others have slide off into the world.

I suppose we who have a clear spirit (not presumed, but of transparency)… who only look to uphold and educate (to the reality of what is historically true and truly recorded)… who in every respect approach our evidence of the Majority Race with deepest honor… who spread generosity and accountability for every saved artifact… and who guide our own destiny by a sacred code of good conduct and good wisdom… well, we should stand tall with our truest pride! 

We know that the Ancient needed no “pat on the back” and no thanks for the lives they lived, of wildness and nature they went.  They have such a place within our soul and we have the capacity for the strength of their lives!  They understood nobility, commitment, passion and beauty… they understood good and bad and why they needed to defend one or the other.  We call them the Majority Race because they have exceeded us not simple in occupation, yet in many respects LIFE.  We are the ones who daily collect the beauty of their memory.

The desert winds would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, no spirit or scribe, to tell any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place had died. ~ Cormack McCarthy

Cheers to all ~ Indian Trace