Hacker News with Generative AI: Indigenous Cultures

Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture (nbcnews.com)
Indigenous languages are rapidly disappearing, and AI could help preserve them, according to Indigenous technologists.
Indigenous Cultures, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Language Preservation
174 points by kiyanwang 15 days ago | 92 comments
Archaeologists Finding Canoes in American Midwest as Old as Great Pyramids (smithsonianmag.com)
Tamara Thomsen was 24 feet underwater when she spotted it: the decaying end of a dugout canoe, a great white oak carved some 1,200 years ago. It was jutting out of a sandy ridge in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota—a body of water skirting Madison, the state capital—and she knew it was a remarkable find. “What I did not understand was the breadth of the discovery.”
Archaeology, History, Wisconsin, North America, Indigenous Cultures
4 points by strict9 31 days ago | 0 comments
Tracing Colonial Mexico with Maps and Ink (2020) (magazine.tcu.edu)
Indigenous maps of colonial Mexico in the 16th to 18th centuries — and the materials used to create them — have captured Alex Hidalgo’s imagination for nearly a decade.
History, Cartography, Indigenous Cultures, Mexico, Colonialism
16 points by mooreds 111 days ago | 0 comments
Wisdom of Kandiaronk–Indigenous Critique, Myth of Progress and Birth of the Left (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Anthropologist David Graeber has been working for seven years, with archaeologist David Wengrow, on a work devoted to a history of inequality. A first excerpt from this work was published online in 2018.
Anthropology, History, Inequality, Indigenous Cultures
4 points by wahnfrieden 165 days ago | 0 comments
The Lost Treehouse Tribes of the Rainforest (messynessychic.com)
Rainforest, Indigenous Cultures, History, Travel
10 points by vinnyglennon 180 days ago | 0 comments
Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows (phys.org)
Archaeology, Indigenous Cultures, Rituals, History
304 points by speckx 235 days ago | 278 comments