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New a mohawk review of avatar and the sequal
http://64.38.12.138/News/2010/018025.asp
This is what we expect James Cameron will address in the sequel to Avatar and that is why we cringe when we see the movie. We were the tall, lean Natives looming over the bow legged refugees from the east. We were the ones who created an ecological paradise in much of the Americas, we lived at ease with the land, we took strength from our clans, we gave thanks for all things (including everything we consumed), we honoured the Great Tree of Peace, we held sacred the Great Tree of Light, we delighted in rituals and were, according to the Europeans, immodest in our dress. We, like the Na'vi, used tatoos, body paint and shaved our heads into the famous "Mohawk" hairstyle.

Given those similarities, which Mr. Cameron has acknowledged were by design, we can understand the Na'vi yet be apprehensive about their fate. Based on our experience the only way the Na'vi will survive is to act quickly and either form a confederacy of indigenous peoples in Pandora to (with a Tecumseh like leader) resist the Earthlings when they return or to convert all of Earth to the Na'vi way of thinking as would our prophet Skannenrahowi the Peacemaker.
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
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They did NOT shave their heads into that style.

The hairstyle mimics a headpiece that was worn over a completely shaved head.

Not an important detail, but if you claim to be speaking for people, you ought to have the literally iconic stuff right.
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"an ecological paradise in much of the Americas?" That would come as news to the thirty-five faunal genera that were hunted to extinction in this hemisphere during the millennia preceding 1492. Just sayin'.

with forked tongue,
New would have been 36 but you can only eat so much
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
New The whole living in harmony with nature thing is general bul
The whole primitive tribal people living in harmony with nature thing is general bull. They don't have as much effect on the ecology only because they don't have the technology and scale to do so. History shows that they are just as happy to hunt a species into extinction as anybody else.

This is one of those things that gets under my skin. It's probably a reaction to watching a lot of Anime for several years. The whole ecological-primitive good / technological-sophisticated bad thing really began to rub me the wrong way with some of them.

Jay
New all about the techno in our crew
however with gas getting to $8 a gallon at home dogs and sleds are making a slow comeback.
If we torture the data long enough, it will confess. (Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, 1991)
     a mohawk review of avatar and the sequal - (boxley) - (5)
         Detail.... - (mhuber)
         further detail - (rcareaga) - (3)
             would have been 36 but you can only eat so much -NT - (boxley)
             The whole living in harmony with nature thing is general bul - (jay) - (1)
                 all about the techno in our crew - (boxley)

I am discretely counting the dark sides you have seen.
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