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One tragedy, on top of the mountain of others, is that their histories were passed down orally. Much of that has been destroyed.

One thing that struck me when I read about The Great Flood of 1862 [0], was that the Native Americans recognized the weather patterns for a series of atmospheric rivers and warned the settlers to relocate to the hills. (Tl;Dr: Central Valley ca was under water for months, Sacramento was abandoned) IIRC, it wasn’t until the 1990s that we had the ability to detect/”recognize” atmospheric rivers with satellites and finally gave them a name.

[edit: added link] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862




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