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Native Americans had agriculture. This isn't about agriculturalists vs hunter-gatherers.

P.S. Moreover, they had very advanced agriculture - most of the food Europeans eat today are adopted Native American designs.

I mean, America had agriculture[1] before Columbus showed up. Cahokia[2] came and went (and then other people moved in).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia#Abandonment_and_resett...

It's a typical colonial take on agriculture. People flourished without it but we seem to be stuck with revisionist history around the topic.

People also seem to think hunter-gatherers were always struggling, and while it did happen, they seem to miss that there are still billions of people lacking food security because agriculture isn't as easy or prolific as we tend to believe. It's really hard, especially in certain parts of the world.

Oh well, these biases permeate everything. I have plenty of them too.