(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best native american demographic studies

Not exactly biology, but does anthropology count? Conquest by Andrea Smith explains great deals of info about the relationship of race and racism as a social construct, and relationship with colonialism, imperialism and genocide.

https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Sexual-Violence-American-Genocide/dp/0822360381

Dude, there are Afrocentrists who believe the natives of the Americas were actually black and Africa had a globe spanning empire with tons of colonies before Europe colonized everything.

They seriously believed that since pyramids exist in Mexico and in Africa, therefore the ancient Mexicans were actually Africans.

A whole book had to be written by a historian just to counter the crap afrocentrists push.

The entire basis of the claims from the afrocentrists were that the Olmec heads have huge lips. That's literally the only evidence.

It happens in other ways as well. Check out this book if you want to be really, really depressed.

I took a class on Native American Women, we read a book called Conquest. It is a heavy nonfiction book, but it is extremely informative. It’s about sexual violence and genocide of indigenous people.

Racism is systemic; in Canada, institutions and everyday practices benefit white people. The fact that you refer to a “ghost racist” in the system because you can’t identify any overtly “racist laws” is simply more evidence of white privilege. In other words, you don’t recognize it because if hasn’t impacted you negatively. And when I say “negative” I don’t mean being ineligible for a scholarship, as you have mentioned.

Take note of who (i.e., which races) are represented in your everyday life at Dalhousie. How diverse is your classroom? What do your professors look like, and particularly those who hold tenured/other high-ranking positions? Predominant whiteness in academic institutions, for example, does not occur by accident or from the actions of a ghost racist for that matter.

The point is, racism — while not evident to you — is woven into the fabric of academia. If you are looking for more specifics, I would direct you to this book: https://www.amazon.ca/Equity-Myth-Racialization-Indigeneity-Universities/dp/0774834889

I am only answering further because I looked at your artwork and it is nice, and it seems you did not pursue the anthropology thing further, which is a good thing. So there's the possibility you're not completely aligned with the US anthropology cult, with its known problems, prejudices and motivations.

I am glad you pointed out various Maya are still around, this is important to educate people on. After all, if they weren't around any more, who would the US have to finance the assassination of in central america through ongoing genocidal schemes?

Your follow up statement that "I'm led to believe that their view of the downfall would be as varied as the countries across which they are spread" does suggest that you have in fact talked to Maya people, and are aware that there was no "collapse" at all, and are aware there is no single Mayan people, and are aware that the ongoing changes in various Maya cultures in history, like the histories of most cultures, aren't particularly sudden or mysterious. These were the main issues with your previous post.

Maya peoples know their history, have maintained their oral and written records, and there is no huge mystery of their history.

There is only the american anthropologists and archaeologists who continue to claim that there is a mystery here or there, while they ignore actual history kept by non-white and non-american peoples. (I qualify this with 'white' because the non-white american anthropologists I know do not have this belief, nor do the non-american white anthropologists.) These are bizarre claims and are among the many reasons that american anthropologists are regarded with skepticism and ridicule by much of the rest of the world anthropological communities.

Worthwhile reading to decolonize the minds of those who have been through US or similarly minded anthro programs.

Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich

Darkness in El Dorado

Custer Died for Your Sins

Indians and Anthropologists

Read all these. Then proceed.