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The indigenous group whose land I'm on rn are the Cahuila. In Cahuila culture the doctors/shamans were basically botanists. They would claim certain patches of
by culi 5y ago
The indigenous group whose land I'm on rn are the Cahuila. In Cahuila culture the doctors/shamans were basically botanists. They would claim certain patches of land where a particular plant was growing and study it for many years and everyone respected that and would avoid foraging that plant. There was a lot of knowledge built up, some of which was only passed down to people in their lineage or the apprentices that would study under them. Their folk taxonomy had a name for every species of oak that modern botany names. Which is an incredible feat in that area especially since those oak species hybridize very readily
Similar aspects of cultures can be seen across the world. Like with variolation techniques in China
- dissent 5y agoI don't get this constant acknowledgement of which peoples' land we're on. If you feel this is a bad thing, would you not simply get off the land? If you feel that it is a good thing, are you not gloating about your conquest? Question asked in good faith.
- culi 5y agoWhat do you mean? I brought it up because it's directly relevant to my comment... Genuine question, would you rather I danced around it somehow or figured out a phrasing that left that detail out? Part of the point of that detail was to show how commonplace this type of thing is by talking about just the group of people's who's land I happen to be on and not some exotic far away group. Also I don't see how either of those two questions are relevant. If I point out that the native biome here is a chaparral am I necessarily implying that I feel guilt that it's been paved over or showing off that I live in the society that paved it over?
- dissent 5y agoI wouldn't say I'd rather anything. But it's an odd phrasing that I didn't see people using very often until a couple of years ago. I see it on Twitter bios too.