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Anthropology

marybourg

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2. Oral tradition is a better keeper of history

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon May 12, 2025, 09:55 AM

May 12

than writing is. I’ve seen Pueblo people re-enact the Inquisition in dance and chant and in another dance, the rejection of Christian missionaries; we are forgetting the Holocaust and the Civil Rights era already, although every painful detail is in writing.

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DNA Links Modern Picuris Pueblo Tribe to Ancestors Who Lived in Chaco Canyon Hundreds of Years Ago [View all] Judi Lynn May 12 OP

Wow!! Very Cool! Chaco is a deep experience. alittlelark May 12 #1

Oral tradition is a better keeper of history marybourg May 12 #2