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Opinion: Native Americans still overlooked in debates about U.S. history
AdvertisementBy Guest ColumnistSep 26, 2020 at 6:05 pmThe 1619 Project is gaining more traction in the media since its unveiling last year in the New York Times magazine. Its premise, “to reframe American history by regarding 1619 as our nation’s birth year.” The question is “What would it mean not to seek a ‘new’ history for our country but to acknowledge the already existing history pre-1619?” Why is there talk of reframing history for this country? If anyone has the right to do so it would be the Native Americans of the East Coast of Virginia. The formal beginning of the unborn United...…AdvertisementBy Guest ColumnistSep 26, 2020 at 6:05 pmThe 1619 Project is gaining more traction in the media since its unveiling last year in the New York Times magazine. Its premise, “to reframe American history by regarding 1619 as our nation’s birth year.” The question is “What would it mean not to seek a ‘new’ history for our country but to acknowledge the already existing history pre-1619?” Why is there talk of reframing history for this country? If anyone has the right to do so it would be the Native Americans of the East Coast of Virginia. The formal beginning of the unborn United...WW…
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