there’s no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable
sigh it’s called oral history and it was working just fine before the settlers showed up
there’s no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable
sigh it’s called oral history and it was working just fine before the settlers showed up
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes, 100%, I don’t at all want to give the idea that no history was ever remembered, and I don’t want to sound like I’m shitting on oral history either. I just… really wish someone had written some stuff down. There’s so much that’s lost to time because of the pandemics that swept the post contact world and all of colonization that followed.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
yes a lot of cultures went extinct but not because they didn’t have writing. it’s because there was no one left to pass on the knowledge.
if we think about it from the perspective of contemporary indigenous people, they know how to read and write but that’s a side effect of boarding schools. and it’s led to more intensive cultural extinction because of forced assimilation