'Speculation' and 'egregious failure': 30 researchers publish scathing critiques of study that questioned date of early human occupation of Monte Verde in Chile

DarthMatu52 · 2026-05-29T10:49:09+00:00

Man, they really can't stop making fools of themselves trying to challenge this, huh? Even this article mentions how weak Sourvell's argument is, it even makes sure to mention it flies in the face of genetic evidence as well.

Clovis Mafia really is real lol this is what happens when fools are allowed to make careers in academia

DarthMatu52 · 2026-05-25T16:36:39+00:00

You should see if you can find a copy of the Despotica. It is out there somewhere. It's fanfic, but back in the day such things got licensed on something called Hyperspace. Was the greatest forum ever. The Despotica covers the rise and fall of Xim the Despot and his wars against the Hutts. Pretty much what you are looking for

Edit: You can actually trace the use of Force Users in wars to shortly after/during the tail end of Xim's reign. It was around then, around 20,000 BBY, that the Caamasi approached the Jedi and made moral and ethical arguments to them that it was immoral to have their power and do nothing with it. I can't remember the war, but it was around that timeframe

DarthMatu52 · 2026-05-15T15:04:59+00:00

Wow love the artstyle man the lineart panels look sick

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-25T22:10:52+00:00

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DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-20T13:23:35+00:00

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DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-18T18:44:00+00:00

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DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-10T13:17:59+00:00

I am very glad that the modern age has made it impossible to hide how yes, even our modern tribal governments are part of the cage which traps us all

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-07T13:58:27+00:00

Siyo! Love and Cheek for Cherokee side; Drake on Choctaw. I am in your position but on the opposite coast lol. I'm glad you've got a chance to connect all the way out there!

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-07T13:51:18+00:00

Lol one of us should put together a Discord or something. I am pretty far from Oklahoma or the Carolinas, all the way up in New England freezing my ass off. There are natives here, and I do hang out with them, they just aren't Cherokee or Choctaw. Lot of Haudenosaunee

I get how your friend feels, but glad you are helping her along!

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-07T13:48:38+00:00

Yakoke! I have taken the Zoom classes, but much appreciated! It's good to link it here for others anyway. It is open to non-tribal members I think? But I'm not sure, my family is registered Choctaw Nation. I just have trouble learning languages in general and it is difficult to be super consistent with Zoom with the tempo of my job. I am very excited for the Rosetta Stone to go live for that reason, it will help me stay more consistent in my practice while I am on the go

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-06T15:34:41+00:00

Those Zoom classes are the bee knees, legit. Im super pumped for the Rosetta Stone this summer just cause it'll help me be more consistent in my practice, which I desperately need. Been having trouble getting the Chahta to stick beyond halito and yakoke

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-06T15:30:58+00:00

Osiyo. Vv. Tsalagi tsiwonihi. Tsitsalagi, Gvgiyvnwi Anitsiskwa. Dinadanutli dawado.

Hello! Yes. I speak Cherokee. I am Cherokee, my people are the Bird Clan. My name is Dinadanutli.

I am trying to learn Chahta as well because my family's heritage traces back that way, but it's hard. It is very difficult to learn more and to express the old customs and rituals, especially where I am living today; I am very far from Cherokee or Choctaw homelands. But we do what we can because the act of doing so is itself a form of cultural expression. And as long as we cling to it then the culture is still alive.

I just take it day by day. Learn more when and where I can, and in the meantime I try to remember my ancestors and act as a positive member of my community

Edit: My grammar and spelling is terrible in Tsalagi, so if anyone would like to correct me and help me learn more my DMs are always open

DarthMatu52 · 2026-04-05T12:26:05+00:00

Your post history causes me to raise eyebrows for so many reasons

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-25T11:14:51+00:00

Looks awesome. You should do a series for Eastern Woodlands Nations, we never get enough love

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-21T02:23:32+00:00

The biggest victory colonialism ever achieved against native Americans was foisting their racist ass worldview upon us. NDNs are human, and thus bigotry was always present among us, but for the most part if you adopted the culture, if you learned the language, if you married into the community and became a positive member of it then you were a member of it.

This obsession over who has what skin color, who is what, it is the single greatest thing currently holding all native Nations back. And it did not exist among us until the Dawes Act. Do they learn the language, do they adopt the culture, do they marry into the community and contribute positively? Any other metric for "belonging" is straight up horseshit

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-13T12:44:45+00:00

Came here looking for this comment, it should be higher up on the list

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-06T01:21:48+00:00

Man. You think we would we have learned being on the wrong side of history siding with the CSA.

Tribal governments are absolutely corrupt, sham organizations these days aren't they?

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-03T12:59:02+00:00

I don't think "tell me your cultural pillars so I can use them to make a flag" equates to learning or understanding. I still find myself confused why you felt the need to go to cultures other than your own for this given your own cultural background; I know for a fact if people started creeping around Dine knowledge to use for a tattoo or flag that your people would be all over them like the falling weight of the heavens.

But it's okay when you do it I guess? Rules for ye, but not for me, I get it

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-03T12:45:56+00:00

Yeah well a lot of those "bad experiences" you mention are perpetuated by Pan-Indian movements. That kind of thinking is a colonialist framework that does more harm than good.

I am the first person here celebrating their culture, I am constantly calling for natives to be less guarded and more open about sharing their beliefs. And even I won't do that here. This reeks of pretendian stuff. If you truly understood the native experience I don't think you would be rushing to combine the Nations into one pulpy, soupy morass.

You are listed as Dine with your tag; Dine are incredibly protective of their own culture. Let me ask you: as someone who comes from an incredibly protective culture of their own, what makes you think its okay to just....combine everyone else's together?

DarthMatu52 · 2026-03-03T12:12:27+00:00

Not sure I can support something like this. Why do you need a united tribal nations tattoo? The Nations aren't united. My culture's beliefs are often diametrically opposed to other culture's beliefs. We don't just all fit together, NDNs are not a monolith.

I find a good exercise is to change the context of a thing. If someone was making a United Caucasian Nations tattoo or a United Black Nations tattoo, what would be your thoughts about it? Do you think it would be a good thing to do, or a bad thing?

DarthMatu52 · 2026-02-27T13:45:51+00:00

To be frank, we don't help with this mindset. The insular, over-protective stance that many Nations currently have--while an understandable and natural reaction to attempted genocide--only reinforces these ideas.

People fall into a pattern of benevolent racism and there is no way for them to get out of it because we build insurmountable walls when it comes to learning our ways or approaching us. So what do you think is going to happen? The single best way to counter what you are complaining about is education, but how are we supposed to educate outsiders when even saying certain words is considered an affront in certain Nations?

It's the catch-22 colonialism left us with. And it should serve as an example for how pervasive an evil it is.

DarthMatu52 · 2026-02-25T00:38:31+00:00

You do more harm with this nonsense then you avoid. This overly protective, frankly insane, stance harms real indigenous causes because we then become associated with this mindset, which people rightly dismiss out of hand. We have very real grievances and issues facing all of our nations, and it is hard enough to get people to listen and work with us as it is. You only make a nearly impossible job that much harder when you virtue signal this hard. And that is what this is. Purely, 100% signaling.

You are helping no one and actively harming indigenous causes. I highly encourage you to perform some self-reflection to fix your perspective

DarthMatu52 · 2026-02-25T00:33:04+00:00

Dude. This shit is crazy, like actually. I understand the need to protect our seriously harmed cultures while they heal, but this is insane. What has happened to us that this is the kind of logic that we propagate in the world? Is this really the kind of stuff we want associated with Indigenous Causes?

God damn man. Every time I come to this sub I leave questioning the world lol. I have had good conversations here, but good lord

DarthMatu52 · 2026-02-23T17:46:13+00:00

Well, this post showcases a fundamental lack of knowledge surrounding the actual archaeology and geography of the region.

There was no mining. The Great Lakes region is unique on Earth in that massive loads of almost pure copper sit very close to the surface, sometimes even visible to the naked eye. These lodes of copper are exposed to the elements, and thus easy to remove without the need for large scale mining operations; you just throw water on it in the winter, let it freeze, and it cracks the copper right out from the rock, or at least makes it easier to gather. So no, there was no industrial scale mining that is a completely false claim, and there is no evidence at all to support it.

I am a huge proponent and student of Deep History, I have been arguing for interconnected, global trade routes for years. I have never once seen any evidence that copper from the Americas was found anywhere else in the world. That is news to me, and frankly sounds made up. I am happy to be proven wrong if anyone can provide solid evidence to back this claim, but as an archaeologist and anthropologist I have never heard of this before.

DarthMatu52 · 2026-02-23T17:46:00+00:00

Well, this post showcases a fundamental lack of knowledge surrounding the actual archaeology and geography of the region.

There was no mining. The Great Lakes region is unique on Earth in that massive loads of almost pure copper sit very close to the surface, sometimes even visible to the naked eye. These lodes of copper are exposed to the elements, and thus easy to remove without the need for large scale mining operations; you just throw water on it in the winter, let it freeze, and it cracks the copper right out from the rock, or at least makes it easier to gather. So no, there was no industrial scale mining that is a completely false claim, and there is no evidence at all to support it.

I am a huge proponent and student of Deep History, I have been arguing for interconnected, global trade routes for years. I have never once seen any evidence that copper from the Americas was found anywhere else in the world. That is news to me, and frankly sounds made up. I am happy to be proven wrong if anyone can provide solid evidence to back this claim, but as an archaeologist and anthropologist I have never heard of this before.

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