false first

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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

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