Ancestral Pueblo ruins at Mesa Verde, USA (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

I always wonder how this nation would look if we hadn’t committed a genocide against the natives.

You ever heard of the gigantic animal depictions that used to sprawl the north east? There are a few still around, but seeing what they had originally done with the land would be jaw dropping.

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