As I was reading Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, all the relentless exploitation and bad faith behaviour of the European settlers seemed to mirror contemporary politics and power struggles - and pulled into focus that 'the White Men' are so often on the dark side, and that the version of history we tell ourselves where we are the good guys is so far removed from reality. There's a few groups on both sides of the Atlantic pushing back against BLM and a more balanced view of history in schools and wanting to return to expounding the glories of the white man's mission to civilise the world. Craziness.
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