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hansolo@lemmy.today 3 days ago
“We’re a network of ethnic groups, kingdoms, confederacies, and warrior clans. We transcend even being ‘a’ culture. We are a legion of diverse groups. Our people arroved when this land was emoty, and have dominated it - half a continent - comfortably, for 15,000 generations.”
“So, uh… What’s that big thing over there?”
“Well, we found that creating massive, highly engineered earthworks helps us with both agricultural and security tasks.”
“So, just mounds of dirt?”
“Mou- What? No, these require years of planning, and -”
“Mounds! Mounds! You’re all Mound People! Mound People! Mound People!”
“Ugh…”
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Tale of as time with exonyms. Ex: Anasazi vs Ancestral Puebloans. In the early 1900s when archaeologists started getting interested in Ancestral Puebloan sites, they misapplied the Navajo name for them, which basically means ‘ancestors of our enemies.’ Obviously not what most people want to be referred to as!