Difference between revisions of "False first"

Revision as of 18:46, 11 March 2021

False First. Text from a Middlesex Fells Reservation Trail Map published by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2016

a narrative that promotes a group or individual as being the first to explore a natural or wild setting, when, in truth, the area was known by indigenous people long before

Coined by Freedom Baird, June 2016, Cambridge, MA

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 === Noun ===
-# a narrative that promotes a group or individual as being the first to discover a natural or wild setting, when, in truth, the area was known by indigenous people long before
+# a narrative that promotes a group or individual as being the first to explore a natural or wild setting, when, in truth, the area was known by indigenous people long before
 Coined by Freedom Baird, June 2016, Cambridge, MA
 [[Category:History]][[Category:Narrative]][[Category:Truth]]