Out of an understandable eagerness to point to positive role models (or to make money on the web), people need to be careful not to make false claims.
"Out of an understandable eagerness to point to positive role models (or to make money on the web), people need to be careful not to make false claims."
"Here is what is known as the Research Cycle:
1. Identify what you know.
2. Decide what you want to learn.
3. Select records to search.
4. Obtain and search the records.
5. Evaluate and Use the information."
A very interesting article (if you ignore the white superior Christian attitude of the writer) describing the life of the Montagnais. I especially enjoyed the description of the inside of a wigwam full of people and all their worldly possessions.
any transmitted story should be checked against the known facts and preserved as a "story" and not as history. If there is substantiation of all or part of the story, then a citation to a source should be provided. Simply copying and repeating traditionally held stories is not history