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8. A quick examination of recent historical titles on indigenous peoples...
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 11:23 AM
Sep 2019

would show this to be false.
Current events might be written (or perhaps the talking points controlled) by the winners. But those of us who've spent our lives as professional historians will always get the story out as accurately as we can. The British colonists who "settled" Virginia and Massachusetts certainly appear to be winners. But the stories of the indigenous peoples they tried to destroy are ever-more present. The stories of the conquests of the Americas, for instance, are ever-evolving, and the Europeans do not look so good.
I say this as someone who's written on indigenous peoples of Mexico for nearly 20 years. It may take awhile, but historians have long memories.

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