rowan’s Reviews > Native Nations: A Millennium in North America > Status Update

From Ch 1: It is rare that everyone in the world has the same thing on their minds at once, but we know one thing that everyone was talking about in the spring of 1006: the star.
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brief research rabbit hole: SN 1006 and other astronomical events that may have guided various people/civilisations into making changes and building things

From Part 1: Because [other civs] left written records, historians have traditionally found the details of their histories easier to access than those of Native Americans who lived at the same time, generally assuming that eras without written records are the realm of archaeologists. Yet writing is really the exception - most societies around the world did not write until the 19th century.
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really? u sure???

i'm writing a space western so i'm on a big western kick, and i reckon some actual fact and history should balance out some of the unsavoury bits in pre-contemporary media i'm osmosing into my headspace reference library (not that contemp media is always clear and unproblematic, but from contemp authors i expect more effort; pre-contemp authors should have known better too, but they're all mostly dead by now).