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Great podcast on the unfiltered version of the Columbus Story:
https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-8/episode-178-columbus-part-i/
It's great to see and hear that people are learning and wanting to learn about this history.
I'm Indigenous and it has been a lifetime of being always uncomfortable reading about history as if we didn't exist or were ever part of the land or even worth mentioning most of the time.
There is honour in talking about every part of history ... whether it be good or bad ... because that is what it is 'history'. But it also does honour to the present generations to acknowledge the past because it prepares and conditions future generations to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
This has been a fun, enlightening and hilarious thread today ... thanks guys ... kitchi-meegwetch doodemuk (it means thanks very much my friends - in Ojibway/Cree)
plus here's another pic of Nimoy as a Native character (he actually looks like someone I know in this image ..... lol)
Ever since was about 10 and I was taken to Mesa Verde in Colorado, I totally started to distrust history as I'd been taught. Before, or was all about American exceptionalism, divine providence, western expansion, etc. I was told about Native Americans as they collided with Americans. Never was I taught about the history that existed long before, like the Ancestral Puebloans that built such amazing things, and had such amazing culture. I still feel guilty sometimes. I've been taking my son to places like that (Mesa Verde, Toas Pueblo, some of the plentiful reservations near Olympic National Park in Washington.
Bonus picture I took at the entrance to Mesa Verde that I found very powerful:
My sister's gateway was the Disney Pocahontas movie. She would have been around seven or eight when it was released in theaters. She fell in love with the story and the characters, knew all the songs etc... and so she wanted to learn more. So then she got real history books about the time period and biographies of Pocahontas.
And that's when she learned grown-up's lie.
That's a classic one there. We just watched that movie with my son, and talked about how none of it was real.