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To be fair, Native American culture was the victim of a 200-year genocide, is still actively repressed today for corporate interests, and has virtually no healt
by Tadpole9181 3y ago
To be fair, Native American culture was the victim of a 200-year genocide, is still actively repressed today for corporate interests, and has virtually no healthy, nostalgic population left to actively champion and revive it.
There were Native American cities with the population of London, they had (ephemeral, regional) writing and counting systems, etc. But aside from anthropologists and a few survivors, all of that culture is dead and gone.
- justrealist 3y agoThat's true and I don't mean to cast blame on how we got here. But it's disappointing in practice. My wife and kids are tribal members (technically, albeit at long distance) so we stop by Pow Wows sometimes and I feel like there's a lot of missed opportunity. Mostly ends up being a place to resell commercial trinkets (of course with some exceptions).
- Tadpole9181 3y agoOh, I apologize if I came across as accusatory! That wasn't my intention.
- defrost 3y agoNot entirely despite best efforts to the contrary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTJvpfkRRdA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTJvpfkRRdA