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I wish I could share your confidence that White scholars have accurately recorded history. TheI'm a dinosaur, I come from another era, and I'm good with that. But what I notice anymore is that facts are cherry picked to present an agenda. There were women scientists, black scholars, but by and large the last 500 years at least has basically been white male dominated. There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are, the future may well not belong to wasps. But on my part I prefer to keep the story straight. Good or bad, it is what it was.
I'm a dinosaur, I come from another era, and I'm good with that. But what I notice anymore is that facts are cherry picked to present an agenda. There were women scientists, black scholars, but by and large the last 500 years at least has basically been white male dominated. There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are, the future may well not belong to wasps. But on my part I prefer to keep the story straight. Good or bad, it is what it was.
Any examples?Having done a whole lot of reading on the exploration and population of Mexico - specifically the two Californias - I've come to the opinion that history is written to favor whoever is writing it.
Ask a California Indian their view of California history and they will give you an entirely different view than those in many text books.
Any examples?Having done a whole lot of reading on the exploration and population of Mexico - specifically the two Californias - I've come to the opinion that history is written to favor whoever is writing it.
Ask a California Indian their view of California history and they will give you an entirely different view than those in many text books.
Any examples?Having done a whole lot of reading on the exploration and population of Mexico - specifically the two Californias - I've come to the opinion that history is written to favor whoever is writing it.
Ask a California Indian their view of California history and they will give you an entirely different view than those in many text books.
The Kumeyaay tribe in San Diego fought against the Spaniards when they first came to the area. Even then, hundreds came to the mission seeking a regular source of food and protection from the elements. They were never in chains and many were allowed to leave to attend special events and rites. The friars treated them as if they were their own children, punishing themselves far worse than any native/Gentile miscreant.
However, according to many California historians, the friars treated the tens of thousands of natives that came to the missions as slaves. As there were never more than 150 soldiers split between 4 presidios and 21 missions, how could they possibly "enslave" thousands of natives?
You are still telling us the Spanish version of what happened. I would like to know if the Indians agree with your narrative, especially the 1st paragraph.
You are still telling us the Spanish version of what happened. I would like to know if the Indians agree with your narrative, especially the 1st paragraph.
Of course they will! I posted THEIR version, not the Spanish.
And, to put this all into perspective, the man most responsible for the history books on California and many other states, Hubert Howe Brancroft, was not a college graduate nor a historian. He was a mid-West protestant with clear anti-Catholic bias and did nothing but condense and edit documents gathered by a team of non-historians. His tomes are filled with historical errors and clearly show a biased and bigoted view of the "savage, child-like Indians" and the Papist Friars.
You are still telling us the Spanish version of what happened. I would like to know if the Indians agree with your narrative, especially the 1st paragraph.
Of course they will! I posted THEIR version, not the Spanish.
And, to put this all into perspective, the man most responsible for the history books on California and many other states, Hubert Howe Brancroft, was not a college graduate nor a historian. He was a mid-West protestant with clear anti-Catholic bias and did nothing but condense and edit documents gathered by a team of non-historians. His tomes are filled with historical errors and clearly show a biased and bigoted view of the "savage, child-like Indians" and the Papist Friars.
Professional historians didn't come on the American scene until the late 1800's. Until then people just wrote history some good, some bad and some even accurate. Today, hopefully the professional historians set some rules that historians, professional and otherwise, can follow.
You are still telling us the Spanish version of what happened. I would like to know if the Indians agree with your narrative, especially the 1st paragraph.
Of course they will! I posted THEIR version, not the Spanish.
And, to put this all into perspective, the man most responsible for the history books on California and many other states, Hubert Howe Brancroft, was not a college graduate nor a historian. He was a mid-West protestant with clear anti-Catholic bias and did nothing but condense and edit documents gathered by a team of non-historians. His tomes are filled with historical errors and clearly show a biased and bigoted view of the "savage, child-like Indians" and the Papist Friars.
Professional historians didn't come on the American scene until the late 1800's. Until then people just wrote history some good, some bad and some even accurate. Today, hopefully the professional historians set some rules that historians, professional and otherwise, can follow.
Just as doctors or pharmacists have to take the required courses, so must professional historians, and just as not having the required courses and training does not prevent people from suggesting medication or treating illness so it does not prevent people from writing history.You are still telling us the Spanish version of what happened. I would like to know if the Indians agree with your narrative, especially the 1st paragraph.
Of course they will! I posted THEIR version, not the Spanish.
And, to put this all into perspective, the man most responsible for the history books on California and many other states, Hubert Howe Brancroft, was not a college graduate nor a historian. He was a mid-West protestant with clear anti-Catholic bias and did nothing but condense and edit documents gathered by a team of non-historians. His tomes are filled with historical errors and clearly show a biased and bigoted view of the "savage, child-like Indians" and the Papist Friars.
Professional historians didn't come on the American scene until the late 1800's. Until then people just wrote history some good, some bad and some even accurate. Today, hopefully the professional historians set some rules that historians, professional and otherwise, can follow.
And just who is a professional historian? People who get paid for it.? I am not sure I agree that a person writing for profit or ideology would opt for precision in their history writing, those foibles just gives them an incentive to satisfy the target audience.
