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[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, not really for the majority of tribes. What we so know is that by the time Europeans had made real efforts to expand westward in North America, The Great Dying had already killed 75-90% of the native population.

Basically, North America had already endured around 200 years of civilization and population collapse starting in 1450. So even what the tribes know about themselves has to be viewed in the perspective of a people who had just lost 90% of their population in a few generations.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Whoa, do you have a source on that? That’s an incredible piece of context

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Here is a decent explanation.

People forget that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived to when Europeans began expanding past the Appalachia is a span of 300 years. That's longer than we've been in a country.

American expansion would not have been possible without hundreds of years of what is basically a Continent wide apocalypse. Culture just doesn't survive that level of sustained trauma unchanged.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Does Lemmy also hug sites to death?

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