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[–] gowan@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Native Americans are not one culture BTW. We treat them as one because the USA's history towards non-northern protestant European people is pretty much always racist but they are no more similar cultures than the French and Slovenians are.

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree, my bad, just edited it. Do you know whether the concept/word of spirit animal exists in only a small subsets of Native American cultures, or in all cultures related to Native Americans?

[–] gowan@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I don't know. I suspect that different groups have it and others don't but like most Americans my understanding of the cultures we killed off isn't great and most of it is in context if our genocides against them.

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Slovenians in the spotlight again!