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for you guys. Here's a quick taste of it. It made a lot of sense, and I think people understood

it, but now we have the science and resources to actually biologically prove it. By tracking

things like genetic mutations that we can trace, and by using things like pollen records, we can show that three, for example, three of the four best selections of honey locusts came from Cherokee regions.

And there's evidence, again, from pollen records and things like that, of these tribes actually burning and managing

forests for specific seeds and species and propagating new species.

So we have this really cool research showing that Native Americans were not only supporting

the landscape and things like managed burns, but they're actually selectively propagating species and not just species, but actually cultivars, and recognizing the best

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