[Taxacom] Restoring indigenous names

[Fred Schueler]

On 11/5/2020 5:26 AM, John Grehan via Taxacom wrote:

>  The problem mentioned of multiple indigenous names is just like the multiple names used in all colloquial languages - which is why the use of novel Latin-Greek names was proposed in the first place.

* yup - in North America it's unimaginable that there'd be a single 
indigenous name for any widespread species.

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 5:04 AM igor pavlinov via Taxacom <
> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

>> About NZ case. To oppose the suggestion to name native organisms after native people, I’d remind that those native people exterminated very interesting endemic species like moa. So, should we name other species after those exterminator? Why should we think they, with respect to the native wildlife, were better that WASP colonizers?

* there's a lot of romanticizing of indigenous ways of life and lots of 
what passes for sensible indigenous thought comes from centuries of 
powerless reflection on the deranged antics of commercial society. As in 
the song -

How then are we so different from the first men through this way?
Like them we kill the land we love in living day by day.
As they hewed down the mammoths, so have we hewn down the trees,
And sprayed the prairie’s heart as noxious weeds.

With axe and dam and gillnet from the Great Lakes to the sea,
As Shannon-Wiener’s H decreases monotonic'ly,
Each harvest yields less crop, and there are fewer kinds of weeds,
And the lark lives where the Longspur cannot breed.

Still, for one more time, we would force a Northwest Passage,
And Franklin’s silver service pours the scurvy tea once more.
Tilling bloody lines in the earth, once wide and savage,
Where nothing grows but money any more.

fred.
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