A review by farkle
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England, by Jean M. O'Brien

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.