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Taking advantage of the lax rules to ask a very broad question, maybe too broad. Feel free to answer with your area of expertise, whether geographically or temporally.

Basically before the European conquest various states, groups, cities, federations, whatever existed in North America.

Unlike Aztecs and Maya which are very present in the popular culture, very little is talked about their northern neighbors. I would like to get a better view of what the political system on the continent looked like at the time.

The date is rough - anything goes that we have the data on.

Also did they just cut out a piece of black cloth and hang it? Or was there something more intricate?

It'd take 10 lifetimes to read every book on this topic, so I'm not sure if I should use up my limited single lifespan on Al's output, as much as I love him as a comic. But if his work is actually solid, maybe his unique POV would make for a worthwhile read.

Cheers!

I am sure it was different back then but how did it evolve from just hurtful speech to something you can get arrested for? Is there like a time line of cases or incidents or something????

Just trying to keep it in house for our community, so you can opine about it. Thanks ahead of time.