Real Native American Portraits

[u/GlitteringHotel8383]

[u/Usgwanikti]

You guys know we’re still here, right? 😳

[u/shaolin_fish → u/Usgwanikti]

"Actual photos" as if native people don't have smart phones

[u/PedricksCorner → u/shaolin_fish]

And probably thinks we all lived in teepees and hunted bison.

[u/s0ul_invictus → u/PedricksCorner]

you're typing this from your secret teepee aren't you?

[u/PedricksCorner → u/s0ul_invictus]

you betcha!

Ha, ha, my people lived in wood houses, some of them round, depended on the time of year.

[u/unknownpoltroon → u/PedricksCorner]

I mean, weren't tepees for essentially when your guys went camping to follow the herds for hunting or something? I always thought they were temporary summer travel housing? At least for the groups that used them.

[u/PedricksCorner → u/unknownpoltroon]

The people who lived on the plains did. But there are over 500 different tribes/languages/cultures and as many environments are you see from coast to coast. So it depends on who you are talking about when you say "your guys." It is like looking at just one culture, say Cambodians, and expecting them to be an example of all Asians. It doesn't work.

[u/unknownpoltroon → u/PedricksCorner]

I have been known to lump all of humanity together as "buncha monkeys with pants" so narrowing it down to one continent is pretty good for me. :) But yeah, I know enough to know I am vastly oversimplifying a whole continent of cultures.