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Originally Posted by sopas ej
Many years ago I remember reading that prior to colonization, California was the most ethno-linguistically diverse area of native North Americans. Apparently, California was always diverse.
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I have always found that there is a very interesting historical "what if" along these lines.
As if the Americas had instead panned out like, say, Asia, and that European colonialism and settlers had not supplanted indigenous cultures and languages.
And so you'd have Mohawk or Navajo, or Mayan, etc. "countries" just like you have countries like Thailand, Cambodia or Nepal where the population is still massively or entirely of the indigenous stock, and their languages and cultures constitute the national mainstream. Imagine a national economy, army, government, education system form K to PhD, functioning entirely in Navajo.
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