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Re:Native American restaurants by eyelidlessness on Monday January 17, 2022 @11:57PM (#29975298)
The notion that there’s a common indigenous cuisine from the Americas is of course untenable. But there’s a commonality of cultural experience and history that binds a lot of native people and peoples together in a way that’s important. And may be more important than the particular fare offered at a particular restaurant.

I welcome regional native restaurants too, but I also welcome solidarity among BIPOC and think that deserves celebration as well.

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Re:Native American restaurants by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:34AM (#29975863)
Doesn't the commonality only really go back to the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s and onwards? Everything I read would suggest that before then, the different cultural groupings across north America would not have really seen themselves as particularly connected to each other, certainly not across large distances.

If that's true (and I don't know if it is), then celebrating the commonality doesn't seem quite so obvious a thing to do.

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