Kathleen,

I understand what you are saying about family history, but I broadened my 
comments about oral history to include the grievous misrepresentation of 
Native Americans in the written record. In the case of Native Americans, the 
oral history, where it wasn't destroyed by the disease brought by the 
Europeans, is the only record available. To dismiss oral history out of hand 
just because it is not written down in the Europeans sense, seems to me to 
be a travesty in the pursuit of history in such matters.

Anne



Anne Pemberton
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