• w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Horse shit.

    It was never abandoned. The valley was steadily habitated for thousands of years by a number of tribes before American settlers forces the Yaqui from the land.

    None of them had air conditioning, and they thrived until a foreign invader took their land by force.

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      8 months ago

      They were also nomadic, and left when it got too dry/hot. Which goes to show they were a lot smarter than most people living there now.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t know the history here, but wouldn’t a nomadic people that leave when the heat / drought gets bad, still count as “abandoning”, in a sense? Or were they more or less a permanent settlement?