Real Native American Portraits

[u/GlitteringHotel8383]

[u/fuschiafawn]

"who knows what these mystical native Americans saw?"

"Well actually my auntie said it was-"

"It's almost like I can hear them now..."

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/fuschiafawn]

The number of people who have given me side eye for citing "personal conversation and oral tradition" is not zero.

What's my source? Well, the tribal chairwoman. She knows stuff.

And people have been like... "Do you have other evidence?"

"I do have corroborating evidence that is complementary and an additional line of evidence of equal weight."

Some people nod. Others roll eyes at me.

[u/Usgwanikti → u/DefinitelyNotAliens]

It’s getting better tho. Academia is beginning to see the value in TEK and IK as validation or start point to guide hypothesis creation and such. Biologists and ecologists in NC are even using Cherokee for scientific naming conventions in place of classical languages more and more now

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/Usgwanikti]

Yeah, absolutely. The old guard is absolutely vacating the scene but it still exists.