RE: What's Wrong With The Term Anasazi, You Might Ask?
I love this, thank you for sharing the information! I honestly hadn't heard it before, either. I try and do similar discernment regarding my own spiritual path (druidism), because so much "source material" is from people who were not at all from the culture and in many cases actively propagandizing or condemning (Romans, or Christians later). There are some druid groups who do the whole white robes for ritual thing, but that idea came from a Roman writer, who was supposedly describing the Most Sacred Ritual of druids. I'm like, um, the Romans genocidally hunted down druids specifically to kill the culture of the Celts (if you remove the history, law, spirituality, etc. of a conqured people and then give it a few generations, no one will be alive who remembered that culture and they will identify as one of the conquerer culture, not as a seperate culture that might revolt), why would you ever think one of them saw The Most Sacred Ritual or even knew what The Most Sacred Ritual was? That would be like some Manifest Destiny-believing white guy being taken as a truthful source about First Peoples religion, by First Peoples. But I digress. :)
@phoenixwren so glad you stopped by and was able to read this and take some of it in. i've hard more and more get back to druidism, so interesting! getting back to our ancients is so important for all. so true about all you said they systematically did this to many of our ancestors. i'm part celt myself, which in of itself is an insulting word to some since it means barbarian. ahahaha hilarious, i think i said i digress ... two meant to be together pals! ahahahaha
And barbarian just means, someone who doesn't speak Greek. LOL I'm a wee bit Mi'kmaq, but not lots. Unfortunately I know nothing about the culture really as that branch of the family tree was heavily Catholic.
If you don't know them, the histories of Tecumseh and Vercingetorix are eerily similar. What Tecumseh did trying to unite tribes to stop America from taking all their lands, Vercingetorix did trying to unite tribes against the Romans. It's practically the same story but 1800 years apart. I think it was reading novelizations of both of those that first made me start looking for any other connections. I have developed a pet theory over the years that the Tuatha de Dannan (the fae) were possibly Native Americans.
thats so damn interesting, my skull just lit up with that info! 😮👀