Late Post, Americans called Indians

"scholars do not make such assumptions about other people in the absence of supporting evidence; yet they make them about Indians without ever looking for evidence."

pg 47 - The Americans and the Problem of History

I chose to include this quote in my blog because of its significance involving Native American history, or in this case lack there of. The author speaks of the struggle scholars have had attempting to understand the native culture. In the Americas much of our pre-history has been lost. Before the arrival of Europeans there was a thriving civilization, "Americans called Indians". Much of our knowledge on the natives today is still unclear and much of our discovery has come from archaeological discovery rather then first hand oral. By disregarding the people that settled the land before them, colonizers destroyed history or a possible recovery of historical information about the native culture present in the Americas at the time. Unfortunately, the mistake of taking advantage has left us with a blank spot n our history of the first Americans.