• The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately it’s really hard to know for most of early history because people didn’t write down or tell stories about that mundane stuff. We do have lots of documentation from colonizers in North America as they interacted, observed, and tried to convert the native peoples though.

    I’d recommend looking to the great lakes region in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest reaching down to northern California since the Europeans wrote a lot about them. Some people had slaves and owned property and some did not, and some built their society around a system of social capital, where collectively being good to each other was a way to pay each other back for wrongdoing.

    It’s honestly absurd how many different ways people lived before us, and presumably, will after us.