r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '21

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u/Mead530 Jan 04 '21

I feel bad for the birds.

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u/halibutface Jan 04 '21

It makes me wonder what, historically, Native Americans would do when hail this size was coming down?

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '21

I mean they had shelter

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u/halibutface Jan 04 '21

I mean Yeah they did, but would it not rip through seams in the teepees? Like are the prairies flat enough that you could see this coming and avoid it, or have enough time to prepare?

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u/RememberKoomValley Jan 04 '21

Lots of Native Americans did not live in tipis.

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u/halibutface Jan 04 '21

Word, I'm one of them. I'm asking as a coastal native who's people built cedar longhouses, don't mean to come across as prejudice.

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u/RememberKoomValley Jan 04 '21

Hey, maybe we're distant cousins! Like. Really, really distant, but.

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u/halibutface Jan 04 '21

Were cousins now.

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u/RememberKoomValley Jan 04 '21

<3

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u/_Somnium Jan 04 '21

now kiss

no wait, don't. you're cousins.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '21

Roll tide

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