From the Yukon to the Pampas, post Native American art and architecture.
Does anyone have any resources on native american art in New England? specially Maine
I find it funny how something like this is similar to something found in Africa
>>14753
Aztecs were pretty based imo. One of the few people to be truly free from anything resembling Western christian guilt-ridden slave bullshit.
>>14919
slaves that had slaves that had slaves that had slaves that had slaves that had slaves that were free and had toys.
aztec slavery in a nutshell.
Did the indians in what's now the eastern US have any large-scale architecture beyond wigwams and such? The aztecs and anasazi had some pretty cool-looking architecture. I'm trying to understand why (AFAIK) the guys more towards the east never bothered building anything with stone or brick like that.
>>14919
the aztecs didn't deserve to have their civilization so mercilessly destroyed but lets be honest here their civilization was really really shit
>>15061
To be fair, they were pretty damn cruel to their subjects and it doesn't take a genius to understand why all the other indians decided to team up with Cortez and help take out the aztecs
>>14990
its because while the eastern woodlands natives weren't fully nomadic they were migratory and only built semi-permanent structures that could be struck and moved easily
>>14990
What comes to mind is the Mississippian Culture, but they weren't exactly in the Eastern US.
>>15061
tbqhwu better than faggy liberal western civilization that worships weakness disease and perversion.
>tfw you will never know what it feels like to honor the gods by sacrificing captives you took during the flower wars
>>15128
yeah, I do think that had Cortez not arrived a Totonac uprising was imminent anyway that would possibly have toppled the triple aliance
>>15230
it does feel pretty great to know that no matter what kind of problems we have today I don't have to worry about the state church arresting me then having my chest cavity sliced open and heart torn out while still alive
Honestly the destruction of mesoamerican codices is probably one of the greatest cultural crimes ever commited. The Aztecs had a philosopher class similar to the classical greeks, whose only job was to write poetry and interpret reality.
>>15061
Think of the Aztecs as Mesoamerica's equivalent to the Assyrians.
Both arose after civilization in their region was about 2000-2500 years old, both carried out huge and benevolent irrigation projects, both built the first truly militaristic empires in their regions, both reached new heights in art and architecture that their region had never seen before, and both were pure evil bitch ass motherfuckers who everyone despised.
>>14753
What native american language should I learn guys?
>>15348
Don't forget about the book-burning.
What are some good resources for learning cherokee?
i used to love visiting the cahokia mounds and museum in stl back when i was a kid
its pretty cool how giant that civilization was before european contact and how we still have so much of it left to learn about
>>15412
I am both impressed and disgusted by the spanish empire
>tfw descended from conquistadors
>>15412
Ah, nvm reread your original post
>>15341
lmao, this
>>15285
well there were small native cities among the Iroquoisan and Huron peoples, though nothing compared to the Aztec, Mayan or Incans.
When Jacques Cartier made contact with the village of Hochelaga at the site of modern day Montreal in 1535 he described it as a town of roughly 3,000 natives with about 50 longhouses made of wood and brick all surrounded by a large wooden palisade wall.
Though when he returned a decade later the whole place had been abandoned, likely due to plague and war with the Huron. The original Montreal settlement was built on the foundation of that village.
>>15467
It's not to late to save yourself from disgrace! Build the wall
>>15385
Nahuatl. Nezahualcoyotl wrote some pretty good poetry tbqhwu, dont know much else about their literature but it's a very aestheticaly pleasing language
>>15452
It doesn't look it, but Monk's Mound in Cahokia is wider than the Pyramid of Giza.
>That feel when spending Halloween alone in your room
http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=261
Tlingit war helmets were bitching. I wish I had saved an image of a bunch of them I saw on /tg/.
How did the mayas created the blue from his paintings?
>>15658
The Mayan Popol Vuh is the most extensive creation myth we have from the Americas I believe. Read a translation myself and it's very similar to Near Eastern creation stories
>>15795
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_blue#Manufacture
>>15385
The one you like, none of them are useful languages, so it doesn't really matters.
>>14753
Larger version
>that Zoidberg
Based Pakal the Great
if you guys are big into mesoamerican culture you might enjoy a game called Expeditions: conquistador where you play as a spanish conquistador in mexico and can choose to be either the traditional rape and pillage conqueror or a benevolent white dude who just wants to trade. I had a lot of fun with it.
>>16031
>those reptilians
