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sidewndr46yesterday at 5:48 PM1 replyview on HN

did they leave behind significant amounts of writing?


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alephnerdyesterday at 5:50 PM

Nope. Which is what makes it so difficult. Additionally, adjacent nations like the Navajo, Apache, and others are very tight lipped about their extremely robust ancestral and oral history because of bad experiences along with taboos.

It felt like a mix of rightful wariness due to untrustworthy opportunistic anthropologists from the 19th and 20th century along with taboos that developed due to some sort of collapse.