Re:Native-Land.ca – Our home on native land
by 908B64B197 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:52PM
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> What defines an "indigenous" people?
This map is mostly a still picture of where different tribes and ethnicities were when they first encountered Europeans (or written history).
"indigenous" French, for example, is harder to define because there was no written history or very little. Are the people who painted the Lascaux caves [0] the "indigenous" French? After them there were Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures that evolved; where they descendants of the Lascaux people or part of a group that settled the area?
Same thing with Greenland and eastern Canada, the Viking made some descriptions of the natives that more or less matches what Europeans latter observed. But it's not clear they were talking about the same culture [1]
This map is mostly a still picture of where different tribes and ethnicities were when they first encountered Europeans (or written history).
"indigenous" French, for example, is harder to define because there was no written history or very little. Are the people who painted the Lascaux caves [0] the "indigenous" French? After them there were Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures that evolved; where they descendants of the Lascaux people or part of a group that settled the area?
Same thing with Greenland and eastern Canada, the Viking made some descriptions of the natives that more or less matches what Europeans latter observed. But it's not clear they were talking about the same culture [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A6ling