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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.

Publication: Colorlines Magazine
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By Charles C. Mann

Alfred Knopf, New York: 2005

The history of American Indians I learned in school--to the extent that I learned anything at all--was so wildly off the mark that I might as well have made it up myself. Not only was it denigrating, condescending and picaresque, it was just plain wrong. So wrong, in fact, that you might think the miseducation was a deliberate part of the conquest.

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This massive ignorance continues a century after American Indians were vanquished. Extraterrestrial explanations of Indian ruins are still popular in the...

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