Your question is too stereotypical to apply to all tribes in any but the most general way. But it's a reasonable philosophy in many respects anyhow and possibly a concept not easily grasped by many Euro-Americans still bound by the restrictive thought confines of Western science and/or Christianity.
This world is our host and the source of our life-sustaining resources. We humans are mere parasites, like fleas on the back of a dog. The scientific community chooses to ignore these truths (which transcend mere facts) and portray the Earth as a mere inanimate object while the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious communities choose to view our world as an an evil place which must in time be destroyed so that we can be released to an eternal life in some better place (how can places be good or evil? -- good and evil stem from people, not places). Both Western religion and Western science view the natural world as something to be civilized and mastered, ignoring the fundamental reality that we are relative newcomers to this planet and that the natural world will likely renew itself and continue in some form or another long after we humans are as extinct as the dinosaurs, serving as host to whatever life-forms replace us.
Don't know if this answers your question or not. Might even raise more questions. Is mankind truly the master of nature, as science perceives him, or the God-appointed caretaker of the world, as Middle Eastern and Western theology proclaim? When it comes right down to it, tho, Nature is a lot bigger than we are.Why did the american indians think they should live in harmony with nature?
Your question is perpetuating the myth of the Noble Savage.
Native Americans didn't live in harmony with Nature.
All throughout the Americas, the native peoples raised land, cultivated it, burned down underbrush and dug irrigation canals.
The only natives who didnt do this were the Nomads of the American plains. The Indians everyone is familiar with
Different cultural Ideas, and it passed down with their people. It's better than trying to live in harmony with our filthy economy.
They lived in nature and had to make the best of it.
because its bring inner peace and harmony with other human beings. Are you live in a big city?
Why did Americas think they could just kill the Indians? The Indians, were resourceful humans, they used a inch of any animal they killed. There ways, were peaceful, they live quality lives. Who cares why they wanted to live that way, we could of learned from them.
Being as we are killing our planet with our excessive wastefulness and lack of concern for the condition of our environment, the question is pretty much evident.
Because they didn't have electronics like we do and they didn't have restaurants so they ate and lived form nature. Which great!!
because they were born and raised all around nature!!!
because they just did
casue thats what , in their opinion, the ';gods'; want
and theyre toal sycos!
Everyone should live in harmony with nature. Just because we're a 'modernized' society doesn't mean we can't go outside and breathe in the air once in a while.
For Indians (Native Americans), it was different, because they lived in nature instead of trying to get away from it. They had to be in harmony with it. Also, I think their gods or something asked them to live in harmony. Is it any different from what God asks us to do now?
They believed in maintaining the balance of nature, not living above it. Only insects like locusts rape and destroy the land every 17 years. Only white man rapes and destroys the land every day.
Because there on the land so they want to take care of it like it takes care of them. for example in the winter they would not kill as much baffalos as they did in the summer or they would be extinct. they also did specail sarahmorys to th land
Because they depended on nature because they were hunters and gatherers in early times.
Our creation stories all tell us we are the guardians or care takers of the earth and must be wise stewards. Because our people lived a simple life and depended on nature for their very existance, it was highly respected. Every living thing is believed to be created by a higher power,God, Grandfather,Creator etc. These things in nature provide you with food shelter and water, You depend on them, trees, plants, animals and they depend on you for wise usage so that they will also continue to live. Our people never took more than what was immediately needed and always left behind enough for others to gather( plants and wild life) and never gathered all in one place so that there would be regrowth the following year. Respect for all living things and no greed is living in harmony with nature. Todays world culture has no respect for anything except the almighty dollar. Wildlife species are sacraficed for the convenience of cattle ranchers, such as the wolves and the last of the wild buffalo. Both are near extinction in some places. This is not living in harmony with nature. Whole forests are being logged, causing soil erosion and water polution as is mining along with causing air polution and devastating illnesses from the poisons left behind. This also is not living in harmony with nature. Our present situation with greenhouse gases and earth warming is caused by no respect for nature. In turn, the world is just now going to the native peoples and asking for help on how to bring back harmony and balance to this earth before the ultimate catastrophic events happen. Short version of a long story
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