How contemporary historians are rewriting the past by privileging Indigenous narratives
“Without the help of letters [a form of writing] the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas entrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forgets their powers…. On the narrow basis of acknowledged truth an immense but rude superstructure of fable has been erected” …
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