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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also, the Mayans most likely had extensive records as well, but we'll never know for certain because the Spanish colonists destroyed everything Indigenous without regard.

Honestly I get angry whenever Western media describes the Mayans or any Indigenous community in the "new world" as "mysterious" or "little is known about them," without the accompanying context of why so little is known about them, as if they're fairies or something. Couldn't be the fact that the colonial powers deliberately tried to erase them right?

[–] goes2eleven@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Couldn’t be the fact that the colonial powers deliberately tried to erase them right?

Cue a new sticker of "We did that!"