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Ceramicrabbit t1_iz0q232 wrote

Reply to comment by Aoeletta in How did Native American tribes indigenous to Yellowstone National Park (e.g., Shoshone, Blackfeet, Crow, etc.) perceive the land (e.g., thoughts on geothermal activity) and what was their relationship like with white/European trappers and explorers entering the region in the early 1800s? by electricdresses

The fact they mostly only had oral traditions is a big factor

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[deleted] t1_iz1decj wrote

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Ceramicrabbit t1_iz1e1vu wrote

The post is about north American tribes which didn't have any system of writing though

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kanegaskhan t1_iz25au1 wrote

There were birch bark scrolls kept that were lost due in fires set to purge areas that were decimated by disease. Stone tablets are a lot more hardy than bark. My father has one passed down to him that tells some story on it in hieroglyphs.

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Ceramicrabbit t1_iz2co4n wrote

From a North American native population? They didn't use hieroglyphs, they had petroglyphs and pictographs but those arent a form of writing. Do you have a source on the scrolls? That sounds impossible until the Europeans arrived and introduced written language

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