White folks doing
teaching "Indian" skills?
I have bagpipes -
and I can't play them!
The American Indian - as with most aboriginal peoples of the world - have left primitive skills behind as "civilization" has come upon them.
A metal pot DOES make life easier -
as does a match - or a firearm.
In a culture with no written language, any skill will be lost in only one generation.
Between the tanning and bowmaking sessions, a young buffalo that had been culled was brought to our camp and we were invited to take the hide and head - "if we took it apart the old way". A few blows with a hammerstone produced several fine flake knives from our Kansas chert. The work was completed in short order.
