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by WillAdams 397 days ago
I'm most of the way through:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166433.Empires_of_the_Wo...

which has a very interesting discussion of how the native usage of these languages was affected by the Catholic Church and the children/descendants of immigrants.

Ages ago, there was an article on how earthen homes were traditional in many parts of South America (_not_ Pueblo) and the advantages of them --- folks lived quite well in this part of the world for millennia before Columbus and those who followed him --- and it is due to their innovations that Malthus' math was incorrect, which we should all recall the next time we have a potato chip, or eat anything made of maize.