farkle's review against another edition
4.0
O’Brien unpacks how the telling of New England history first became mythologized. She painstakingly culls through local histories, commemorations, and historical pamphlets to piece together colonial moments of “firsting,” “replacing”, and “lasting.” These collective narratives developed the longstanding mythology of Indian extinction. Native resistance and survival shows these to be false narratives.
aimiller's review
4.0
Just a really solid work with a strong but still interesting and super useful framework; the citation you'll see of this really speaks to how useful it is. It's deeply thorough, and might strike some folks as repetitive, but I think O'Brien really just does an amazing job of showing how deeply pervasive these practices are, and really challenge the reader to consider how these practices might be used in their own local histories. Strongly recommend for everyone but especially people who live/have lived in the area currently known as New England, as a way to reconsider the spaces they occupy.
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