In significant swathes of the US the natives were more or less successfully exterminated so there’s no clear cultural line from ancient natives to the people living there today.
This comment is an example of how that process continues. The original colonizers did their damnedest to try and erase those cultural lines and draw over them with their own.
Those cultural lines are faint, and per capita extremely weak, but that’s why it’s important to amplify them and highlight them when and where they exist instead of disregarding, ignoring and blurring them further.
In significant swathes of the US the natives were more or less successfully exterminated so there’s no clear cultural line from ancient natives to the people living there today.
This comment is an example of how that process continues. The original colonizers did their damnedest to try and erase those cultural lines and draw over them with their own.
Those cultural lines are faint, and per capita extremely weak, but that’s why it’s important to amplify them and highlight them when and where they exist instead of disregarding, ignoring and blurring them further.