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The Mound Builder Myth - Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race (Paperback)
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The Mound Builder Myth - Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race (Paperback)
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Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest
levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of
the American continent to promote a religious, white-supremacist
agenda in the service of supposedly patriotic ideals. Would you
call it fake news? In nineteenth-century America, this was in fact
a powerful truth that shaped Manifest Destiny. The Mound Builder
Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the
Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of
""true"" native Americans. Thomas Jefferson's pioneering
archaeology concluded that the earthen mounds were the work of
Native Americans. In the 1894 report of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas concurred, drawing on two decades of
research. But in the century in between, the lie took hold, with
Presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham
Lincoln adding their approval and the Mormon Church among those
benefiting. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from
the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress,
mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false
ancient history - and enumerating its devastating consequences for
contemporary Native people. Built upon primary sources and
first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells
is a forgotten chapter of American history - but one that reads
like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of
government, religion, and science. And as far-fetched as it now
might seem that a lost white race once ruled prehistoric America,
the damage done by this ""ancient"" myth has clear echoes in
today's arguments over white nationalism, multiculturalism,
""alternative facts,"" and the role of science and the control of
knowledge in public life.
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