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Originally Posted by listopencil
No, don't go introducing facts into history. You'll mess it up.
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True. When I was in school (PNW in the 70's), we were taught that Indians were nobel savages that revered and lived as one with nature. Then the greedy evil white man came in with their guns and smallpox and wiped most of them out. Turns out that it was a lot more complex than that.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann is a good book on the subject.