Seriously. You should hear them gripe when when a White person actually bothers to publish something about these groups and they claim the White person is ignorant and got it wrong, when they just asked a different Tribe member, maybe from a slightly different region, who gave them that answer. It's like telephone, this stuff breaks down, when it's not written down. I think European bards used to do this kind of thing with songs, heck, American hobos too and this stuff would change or get lost to time, save when it was written down. They of course add in stuff, as victors do, or leave out stuff, about the other tribes they wiped out, while whining about the White man "genociding" them (see not enough gibs).
That's the problem with having a cultural heritage solely reliant on oral tradition.
Hearsay is given disproportionate weight because you have zero other internal sources to fact check or use as actual evidence.
Seriously. You should hear them gripe when when a White person actually bothers to publish something about these groups and they claim the White person is ignorant and got it wrong, when they just asked a different Tribe member, maybe from a slightly different region, who gave them that answer. It's like telephone, this stuff breaks down, when it's not written down. I think European bards used to do this kind of thing with songs, heck, American hobos too and this stuff would change or get lost to time, save when it was written down. They of course add in stuff, as victors do, or leave out stuff, about the other tribes they wiped out, while whining about the White man "genociding" them (see not enough gibs).
They don't leave that out, they're proud of it.