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[[File:false-first.jpg|thumb|320px|right|''False First''. Text from a Middlesex Fells Reservation Trail Map published by the Massachusetts Department of
[[File:false-first.jpg|thumb|320px|right|''False First''. Text from a Middlesex Fells Reservation Trail Map published by the Massachusetts Department of
Conservation and Recreation, 2016]]
Conservation and Recreation, 2015]]
=== Noun ===
=== Noun ===



Revision as of 19:07, 19 March 2021

False First. Text from a Middlesex Fells Reservation Trail Map published by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2015

Noun

  1. 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