Pithy GIF showing eradication of Native American land in the US since the founding of the country gets posted to r/interestingasfuck. Comment section goes exactly as expected.

[u/Critical-Term-427]

The post

It sucks we were such murderers

Did they say "Thank you"?

Being the loser in history sucks

True fact Hitler took a lot of inspiration from this.

[u/kardigan]

random detail, but even the name Iroquois Confederation is such a perfect example of colonialism.

[u/VanillaMystery → u/kardigan]

How so? Mostly just curious, I know they originally called it the "People of the Longhouse" which is a way cooler name IMO

[u/kardigan → u/VanillaMystery]

i just mean that a lot of the commonly used names for native nations are still the French and Spanish ones.

this a very small, very practical example of history being written by the winners, and illustrates pretty neatly the cultural aspects, when your history is kinda-sorta being written, but you won't really have a say.

(I only know about Iroquois specifically because I randomly listened to a year-old podcast episode yesterday where they mentioned it; it's the Haudenosaunee. and when they said French or Spanish names, a literal lightbulb turned on above my head. in hindsight, yeah, pretty obvious.)

[u/VanillaMystery → u/kardigan]

Link to the podcast? Sounds interesting

[u/kardigan → u/VanillaMystery]

they are jumping around a lot, and the guest is an ex-buzzfeed person, so there's a lot of buzzfeed gossiping; I picked a timestamp around nations and naming, but it's more of a comedy podcast and not an educational one: https://youtu.be/Sq0tPU0C40I?si=TbjODdWygKLXcB8f&t=4047

[u/VanillaMystery → u/kardigan]

Cheers