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NYC should contact a Rat Terrier Club in the area. I believe only a couple of these dogs were bought by and ' employed' by those in charge of the stores of grain in Egypt. ( They had reached the maximum amount of 'poison' that they had been using on the grain.) Within days, they had it cleared out of rats. As the terriers spent their off time with their handlers and families, very soon those neighborhoods were also devoid of rats. As an aside, the dogs were taught not to eat their prey, thus safeguarding them from contracting whatever disease the rats may have been carrying.

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Did you intend to comment on another thread ? The article is about sculptures in Saudi Arabia, that are already protected, it's unrelated to the US

This used to be a comment about how all White Americans should protect Indian heritage. Which they of course should, but he also accused all White people of "ravaging" Indian sites etc.

European settlers trashed an entire continent in a few hundred years; stop and imagine what it must have looked like when they first arrived. How this ends up filed under Camel art is a mystery.

Even if that were 100% true, he was blaming all present day “White Americans”, none of whom were in any way involved.

Very few "White Americans" alive today have ravaged any American Indian sites.

Even if you have the deranged notion that people should bear the responsibility for what their ancestors did hundreds of years ago, it's still just tiny fraction of current Americans that should be the target of your anger.

I understand where you're coming from, but in the interests of education it should be pointed out that a significant amount of destruction of native sites has occurred within "our" lifetimes. For instance, many suburbs in Chandler, AZ were directly built on bulldozed Hohokam pueblos in the 50s-80s. The power plant in Needles, CA was built over what was formerly the largest geoglyph in North America during the 70s, destroying most of the site. The wholesale looting of mimbres sites with heavy machinery mostly began in the 70s as well. The main reason this has slowed in recent years is that the looters have already gotten most of the obvious sites that aren't explicitly protected.

Most people aren't aware of how much destruction of archaeological heritage suburban development has entailed. A good percentage of Americans, especially those in the great lakes or Southwest regions, have used infrastructure built on native sites. It's pretty inescapable.

That's insane, one would have thought that would have been protected at least since the early 1900s.

Add another one to the list:

In the 1950's, the Dalles Dam was built and submerged one of North America's longest continuously populated settlement (over 10,000 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celilo_Falls

Awful. Seems to be a common denominator when building dams. The people responsible should be put in jail, but it can’t be blamed on “White Americans” in general, that’s just absurd.

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