Chapter 573

"We are indeed the people who stayed to see the ancestral land. We call ourselves the guardian tribe." The old woman sat on a polished stone and spoke slowly. Behind her and to her left and right were the people, and the stone bears sat on the other stones, listening carefully to the old woman's story.

The old woman looked at Hongyun with a kind smile on her face. "You are the high priest of the tribe now, so you should know the identity of us."

Red cloud nodded without hesitation: "I know. And I know that if the ancestor didn't choose to stay and take care of the ancestral land, then you, or one of you, should be the high priest of cabulus today. "

The stone bear swallowed a mouthful of saliva and sighed in his heart. As expected, Hongyun didn't hold back and said these words. Well, maybe it's the tragic situation of these people that makes Hongyun unbearable.

For the stone bear who is now in a high position and holds great power, he doesn't care about the life and death of these people. Although these people have made great contributions to the care of their ancestors, they are nothing compared with Hongyun.

Don't say they are just the heirs of high priest kabulu. Even if they still regard themselves as high priest kabulu, the stone bear can't agree.

Let's not say how important the high priest kabulu is to the stability of the whole tribe. Just because Hongyun and his mother are the first to support themselves, stone bears can't put the name of high priest kabulu on other people's heads! The high priest of kabulu can only be red cloud or its descendants! Anyone else who wants to be the high priest can't pass the stone bear!

Stone bear always held this idea, otherwise he would not have said that before he came here just now.

No matter for the stability of the tribe or for the support of Hongyun, it is absolutely impossible for the stone bear to let others serve as the high priest of kabulu!

Although it's wrong for Hongyun to say this at this time, the stone bear can't stop it. After all, Hongyun is the high priest of kabulu, who is equal to herself in name. She has the right to say these words.

So the stone bear can only sigh helplessly in his heart.

But what makes the stone bear unexpected is that although Hongyun sincerely said this, the old woman simply refused.

The old woman shook her head, with a touch of pain on her face, but she was still very serious and said frankly: "high priest kabulu, if your sentence could have been established more than 200 years ago, now we have no qualification. We don't even have the right to call ourselves high priest cabulus

"Why?" Red cloud very don't understand of ask.

"No, why? That's the truth. " The old woman sighed and said, "at the beginning, our ancestor took the initiative to leave the ancestral land. In order to get the consent of the Iroquois, there must not be many people left. And there were only about 150 people left at that time. "

"The Iroquois moved to many tribes outside our ancestral land, and these tribes were the ones who monitored and guarded our tribes. Our ancestors could only live in a small area of the ancestral land. It was very difficult to farm and hunt. Most of the time, the people were not satisfied. Summer is a good thing to say, winter is the hardest. If it weren't for these caves in ancestral land, we might have been killed by the cold wind in winter if we couldn't hold on for two years. "

The stone bear sighed in his heart again.

He knew that the old woman was not lying. In order to survive here, we must harvest enough food in summer and autumn, including hunting enough prey, so as to survive the cold winter.

But the outside of the ancestral land is occupied by the Iroquois tribes, and the large prey can't enter the ancestral land at all. How can so many people eat by pointing to the small prey living in the woods of the ancestral land? Moreover, only one season of grain can be planted here every year, so the ancestors of these people must live in extreme hardship here.

The old woman didn't notice the stone bear's expression, but continued: "if we say that the cold and food shortage make our life very difficult, but we can persist, then another thing will almost make us despair or even give up caring for our ancestors."

"Because after our ancestors decided to stay and visit the ancestral protection land, our ancestors have been living in this closed land, almost without contact with the outside world. As a result, after several generations, there are more and more stupid and disabled children in the protection tribe, and many children even died when they were young..."

This immediately made Shi Xiong's eyebrows stand upside down, and he realized what the old woman had just said that almost made them despair or even give up.

They don't have reproductive isolation!

Reproductive isolation can be said to be the most important thing in the biological world. Whether it is human beings, animals or plants, reproductive isolation must be carried out if they want to continue their lives. Whether it's geographical isolation, ecological isolation or other ways of isolation, reproductive isolation is a must as long as we want our offspring to be well.

Many people may not be clear about the principle and method of reproductive isolation, but later generations will understand one thing, that is, "close relatives do not marry.". To put it bluntly, this is one of the most direct methods of reproductive isolation.

Marriage between close relatives, children have a great chance of mental retardation, disability and other unpredictable congenital diseases, and such children generally live soon.

Therefore, close relatives cannot marry.

In addition, if some species are not isolated, there will be hybridization, and the only consequence of hybridization is that they can no longer bear.

Like mules, like ligers.

Maybe these Indians don't understand the reason, but they certainly know about it. However, at the beginning, the ancestors who guarded the tribe might have patronized the ancestral land, and ignored this is the most important thing. As a result, inbreeding would inevitably occur between them.

Maybe one generation and two generations are not obvious, but after three or four generations, there will be a large-scale outbreak of close birth.

It's always the most important thing for human beings to have a child, or to continue the blood relationship!

However, the ancestors of these people forgot this. In other words, the Iroquois, who are responsible for monitoring and guarding the tribe, want to completely exterminate this small guarding tribe through this way

If it's the former, it's excusable. But if the latter, it is too inhuman!

"Some of our ancestors immediately realized that something had happened, but there were so many people guarding the tribe at that time. But we can't help it, because those damned Iroquois stipulated that there should be no more than 150 guardians of ancestral land, and there should be no strong men. So, once the number of our guardians exceeds 150, or if there are men who have come of age, they will be taken away by those damned Iroquois. Only the old people, women and children are left here. "

"Under such circumstances, in order not to cut off the inheritance of the guardian tribe, in order to continue to take care of the ancestral land, we have to marry those Iroquois outside... In this way, more than 200 years later, in our generation, our blood lines are very complicated, not to mention the high priest kabulu, even the Cherokee, I'm afraid we don't have that qualification any more... "

Hongyun then understood why the old woman had just said that, so she was in great pain now.

Stone bear suddenly stood up and said harshly, "who said you are not Cherokee? Who dares to say that you are not from our tribe? I, the chief of the Cherokee people, declare here that you, and your descendants, will always be our Cherokee people for generations to come

Hongyun also stood up and said, "and I, the present high priest of kabulu, also announced that you and your descendants will always be members of the tribe!"