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SG, excuse me for being culturally illiterate, but
why is "Anasazi" offensive? Do I detect PC
running amok again?
Pretty soon the only ethnic groups anyone can crap on will be mine- the Irish, the Scotch-Irish, and the Germans. Maybe I'll start an Irish-Hillbilly-Hun Anti-Defamation league. Then we'll hire a good Jewish lawyer and kick the sh*t out of anybody who offends. Now that is something that might have enough appeal to lever me out of my retirement.PC run amok? Maybe not. The stink over the use of "squaw", on the other hand, is PC run amok:.
Austin Explorer's explanation is correct. Today's Hopi, Zuni, and other puebloan groups can trace their roots back to about the time of Christ. Actually, it probably runs about 10,000 years BC, but the cultural developments that we now associate with "Ancestral Puebloan" don't emerge till abou100 AD plus or minus a few hundred years. The ruins associated with Anasazi, Hohokam, Sinagua, etc. are the early villages of the modern puebloan cultures.SG, excuse me for being culturally illiterate, but
why is "Anasazi" offensive? Do I detect PC
running amok again? Really, I am curious.
Cheers,
Charlie
Pretty soon the only ethnic groups anyone can crap on will be mine- the Irish, the Scotch-Irish
Thank you so much, mi amigo del norte. But as I said, I am a hillbilly, so I can't really be expected to understand this level of sophistication.As a Scottish citizen (as well as Canadian), it's Scot, Scots, or Scottish. Scotch is a drink.
I had read that the word "Anasazi" had two meanings depending on pronunciation: "old people" or "enemy ancestors." Cordell agrees with SG above - she states that it was thought to originally mean the former but is now known to mean the latter. I'll have to find the source of the "two meanings" theory.
SG, I understood that the Hohokam and Mogollon (and Fremont, among others) cultures just...disappeared. They merged or were assimilated or died out and little is known of their current descendents, if any.