You both are right but you can't change the fact that people STILL think Christopher Columbus discovered AMERIKA8)
I wonder if they still refer to as "the new world" when teaching young students.. I remeber the images that used to put in my head.. a brand new undiscovered land.. in my childs mind the phrase "new world" never brought up images of a land that was already populated with many different nations of natives.. well history is fiction written by the victors.. Its creepy how they brainwash the younger students so hard.. of course teaching blatant lies, that replace what god awful things happened .. wonderful tales of peaceful Native and Pilgrim feasts.. is done to protect the children and has nothing to do with rewriting history. They use pilgrim because children would't understand invader or illegal alien.
I read this amazing book in a uni history class.. It looked at many famous instances of US government and Native american "interactions" . For each event it presented three legitimate versions (legitimate as in these were actual accounts given by different sources, not that they were all accurate) . For the US government's versions it used the reports of events that were filed in the government reports from military and other agencies. For the natives reports they presented different legitimate historical accounts.. some of the more common were the court records from testimony by Natives americans who were being prosecuted for "crimes" associated with the events. They were recorded as part of the "trial." They then found legitimate third party accounts to determine which version was more accurate.
What the US government claimed and officially filed as an accurate account of these events was total fiction. The government's accounts of these awful events, were almost never backed up by the third party accounts. While the accounts of the Natives were often so similar to the third party accounts, in specific small details, that it was striking.
There were awful atrocities by the military regularly. easily as bad or worse as common treatment against the jewish people in WW2.. Stuff that makes you question the human race on a fundamental level. As I read through event after event from both sides and time after time the third party accounts backed up the Natives versions of inhumane, brutal, hellish, make you want to cry, this shit was so sick, accounts.. while the US gov versions read like historical propaganda fiction when compared to the other versions . I initially thought was done to provided some sort of cover for their disgusting brutal behavior.
When in reality, what they were already doing is rewriting history. History is always written by the victors. Then it is taught to the children as facts. God awful things happen all over the world, all the time and then a BS account is written and fed to the children as fact.. sometimes its really hard not to look at things we humans do all the time and not be utterly convinced we are broken. Since its claimed, that if we don't know our history then we are doomed to repeat it.. I wonder what would happen if we taught the children the truth all the time... maybe it wouldn't happen any more. or maybe the children would loose their naive blinding trust for the government. With the information age, I bet its getting really tough to get away with this so maybe we have some hope.
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