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Thread #156196   Message #3681924
Posted By: Ed T
02-Dec-14 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Magna Carta: did she die in vain?
Subject: RE: BS: Magna Carta: did she die in vain?
Another perspective of early colonial history:

""We Were Not the Savages is a history of the near demise, from a Mi'kmaq perspective, of ancient democratic North American First Nations, caused by the European invasion of the Americas, with special focus on the Mi'kmaq. Although other European Nations, Spain for instance, were in on the slaughter this history relates in detail the actions of only one, Great Britain....Here is a native author who used the Europeans' own documents to prove their dastardly deeds and show that, when compared to the Mi'kmaq, the Europeans were the honorless savages. Daniel N. Paul puts history under the microscope, and it does not look anything like the history textbooks utilized throughout North America.

Again, let me emphasize that Paul used the white man's documents, so it cannot be said he twisted the facts.""

We were not the Savages