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In NM, you're safe with Diné (or even Navajo, but less so these days) or Pueblo. I'm not too sure what our few Apaches call themselves but until the Spaniards showed up they were just another branch of the Diné. Unless you can differentiate minor language differences it's almost impossible to tell Apaches from Diné.

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That neighboring tribe was the Blackfeet. And it meant eaters of carrion. If you read early accounts of contact with the Inuit (like Kabloona) you'll see that this wasn't a completely unearned name.

You eat what you can get or you starve.

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I always thought that they should have used helicopter gunships to kill his entire herd.

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That would be 1362. Much later.

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There would have to be dismemberment, too.

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Well, we still have 2 of the 3.

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Well yes, but I'm unaware of anything that would support an earlier date, and the runestone's a fake. What's being used to say Minnesota in 1000? Now I'm curious!

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Absolutely - it was a matter of survival. Thanks for the info.

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Oh, certainly. That's why I referred to it as a legend.

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Fucker actually said we should be more excited about her Norwegian ancestry, because he's a piece of shit.

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I literally moved here like last week. I live in that flipped district, too. I read articles stating that the oil industry was already cutting jobs, either because of the huge loss of revenue due to the price per barrel crashing, and some are moving away from oil production as their main resource. It's tough to get people away from an industry that has been the life blood of areas even as those industries are moving on without them.

ETA: still working on reading up on NM as this is going to be my home state for the future, I hope!

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It was also a way to enforce endogamy. If a man wanted children recognized by the tribe, he had to shop in the neighborhood. There are some pretty nasty bits in the TaNaKh concerning what happens when men take "foreign wives".

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When it comes to the Tribal Nations, there's been a lot more than four years of wanton destruction.

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Unless of course those "foreign wives" are the spoils of conquest...

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Concubines were fine, if you could afford them. The kids were not legit of course. The only exception I can think of off hand was Ruth and Boaz. Significant in that they're part of the lineage of David.

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my house is filled with onion ninjas today for some reason

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