So the study of the indigenous give us all a whole spectrum of things to focus on that goes beyond, you know, some of the really important things that, like you mentioned, the light that we’re exposed to, but even like when we eat at night and the temperature, and so on.
And our biology, still I feel like responds with stress to all of those things, whereas we’re meant to know the things going on in our immediate group and have the ability to help those people.
Anthropologists who may have been living with relatively intact hunter-gatherers or herder-gatherers, forager, agriculturalists, you know, a variety of kinds of indigenous people around the world have noticed some really peculiar things if we were to compare it to today’s parenting, which sometimes is that helicopter parenting, where we’re kind of hovering over our children, just really, right there to be sort of involved and then sometimes interfering with everything they’re doing, every decision they’re making.
And they’d learn these plants, not through the same way that I would teach an adult, they’re learning them because , you know, with my daughter, Samara this is the seventh year in her life that she has foraged for, say, ostrich Fern fiddleheads, or wild leeks, or, you know, various species of blueberry, all of which she knows very well and competently now, not because she got a lecture on the differences between these plants and their look-alikes, but because she’s simply interacted with them so much.