I am an aspiring scientist. I love and intend on majoring in chemistry, and am taking biology now. As such, I am in a sense attached to scientific method. Documentation, is always important, and with this comes the initial idea that Native American stories cannot be trusted. You cannot put any merit into those, they're just stories, myths, they are not written down or documented, they probably change over time. At least that was my initial thought.
Today, in watching a documentary on Native Americans, I realized this isn't exactly correct. The documentary told of one particular story of a whale in a lake. Had I not heard the rest of the story, I would have thought it was bullshit. I don't mean to be disrespectful with that, but how can you trust a story of unknown origin like that? However, modern geologists have discovered whale bones and remains quite far inland. It was this discovery that showed that the story is true. The whale remains date back 10,000 years, yet the unwritten story lives on. That's just amazing to me.
I am not going to say I blindly believe any Native American story, but this shows me that I can't just disregard them blindly. If one story can live on and remain at least to a degree accurate, I'm sure other stories can as well. It may not be proof, it may not be scientific, but the stories do hold merit.
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