Memories, Personal history

“History is the stories we tell…”

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“Most of us think that history is the past. It’s not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That’s all it is. Stories…”

from “The Inconvenient Indian” by Thomas King

https://www.amazon.ca/Inconvenient-Indian-Curious-Account-America-ebook/dp/B008ADBXUK/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1/136-6765871-1743624

Very thought provoking book.

 

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  1. Marilyn Roberts's avatar Marilyn Roberts says:
    June 12, 2017 at 1:38 pm

    Interesting. This theory says that there would have to be billions of stories, but no indication of how to determine which story is really true. Intresting.

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