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the Native Americans were highly literate, they just didn't record granular details to ledgers because they didn't have strictly hierarchical institutions that

by paimapi 2mo ago

the Native Americans were highly literate, they just didn't record granular details to ledgers because they didn't have strictly hierarchical institutions that utilized this data for controlling their population there is so much easily searchable resources for this and though it might not be your intent, your comment reads as willfully ignorant for being so broad and bought into the type of 16th century Puritan Eurocentrism that many of the articles above discuss in depth * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_writing_systems * https://www.science.org/content/article/roots-mesoamerican-writing https://www.science.org/content/article/roots-mesoamerican-w... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_writing_systems * https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indigenous-languages-of-North-America https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indigenous-languages-of-Nor...

WalterBright 2mo ago
Highly literate? From your britannica reference: "No native writing system was known among Indigenous peoples of North America at the time of first European contact" And yes, I was referring to the North American Indians. I know the Mayans had writing. I even have a book on the Mayan writing system. > they didn't have strictly hierarchical institutions that utilized this data for controlling their population People did not write letters and keep diaries in order to control their population. The book "Empire of the Summer Moon" which is a history of the Commanche empire, and the book laments that their only sources were diaries and letters written by colonists.
- curioadu 2mo ago
  I wonder if one could group Central American and North-Central-American civilizations and peoples into two gross and very approximate groups: 1: Sedentary farmers like Aztecs and possibly Pueblos and those doing Three Sisters farming, some of them like the Aztecs having significant civilizational achievements all considered. 2: Hunting nomads, first doing fire-stick farming to create good conditions for hunting animals as well as gather certain plants, and later utilizing horses after their introduction from Europe.

by paimapi 2mo ago

WalterBright 2mo ago

Highly literate? From your britannica reference: "No native writing system was known among Indigenous peoples of North America at the time of first European contact" And yes, I was referring to the North American Indians. I know the Mayans had writing. I even have a book on the Mayan writing system. > they didn't have strictly hierarchical institutions that utilized this data for controlling their population People did not write letters and keep diaries in order to control their population. The book "Empire of the Summer Moon" which is a history of the Commanche empire, and the book laments that their only sources were diaries and letters written by colonists.

curioadu 2mo ago
I wonder if one could group Central American and North-Central-American civilizations and peoples into two gross and very approximate groups: 1: Sedentary farmers like Aztecs and possibly Pueblos and those doing Three Sisters farming, some of them like the Aztecs having significant civilizational achievements all considered. 2: Hunting nomads, first doing fire-stick farming to create good conditions for hunting animals as well as gather certain plants, and later utilizing horses after their introduction from Europe.