(07-21-2021, 10:49 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: I wonder if the same applies to residential flooding? I have an idea that First Nations knew not to build their houses on flood plains; or at least to only live there seasonally. Then the settlers came and built right next to the river and only (mostly) stopped after losing many neighbourhoods to flooding.
Good question. I don't know the answer to that in North America. I do know that it just came up in the NZ news that some highway routing was changed due to Maori input and that the changed route did avoid recent flooding.
EDIT: from a colleague: "I have heard stories about FN telling people to move winter camps away from frozen rivers due to the danger of the spring break up floods"