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Our shared history has many mistakes, many of them honest but too many intentional. These mistakes were made by the ‘armchairs of Europe’ receiving reports from interested amateur eye-witnesses and from some scholars who visited to engage the natives in person. Their reports had to adopt established anthropological words – chief, horde, totem – which did not fit Aboriginal society, causing decades of confusion and mistakes about their territorial organisation, social structure, politics and creeds.
The chaos was put in some order during the 20th century by the training and field visits of scholars – archeologists, anthropologists, historians.
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