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by WildUtah 5779 days ago
THIS MAN does not live like any person today.

There is at least one person today he lives exactly like.

He is not even an "American Indian". Your "American Indians" all speak english[sic], or another modern language,

I guess all the Quiché speakers I met in Guatemala and the Tzeltal speakers in México who didn't speak Spanish just don't count for you. There are millions of people in the Americas who don't speak any of the Indo-European languages that dominate modern politics and commerce in the hemisphere.

they are integrated with society (hence they could be interviewed in the first place)

So Lacandons and Raramuri who don't speak Spanish and still live traditional lifestyles without European culture contact far in the backwoods don't exist? They're well documented.

they are not this man and they do not speak for this man or his people.

On that I agree.