Tag: Edward S Curtis

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The certainties of Florence by Adrenalin Righting – Chapter IV

Chapter IV While the zealotry of discovery created a new axis of indigeneity.
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The certainties of Florence by Adrenalin Righting – Chapter III

Chapter III These were nothing compared to the fifteen-hundred-year-old dose of Christianity that also disembarked European ships.
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The certainties of Florence by Adrenalin Righting – Chapter II

Chapter II Everything they were included ancient diseases like smallpox and measles, typhus and cholera.
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The certainties of Florence by Adrenalin Righting – Chapter I

Chapter I When Europeans sailed west searching for the east, they took with them everything they were.
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The certainties of Florence by Adrenalin Righting – Chapters I – XIV

Chapter I When Europeans sailed west searching for the east, they took with them everything they were.
Chapter II Everything they were included ancient diseases like smallpox and measles, typhus and cholera.
Chapter III These were nothing compared to the fifteen-hundred-year-old dose of Christianity that also disembarked European ships.
Chapter IV While the zealotry of discovery created a new axis of indigeneity.
Chapter V Contact proved apocalyptic for the indigenous peoples of those “discovered” lands.
Chapter VI Colonisation is inherently violent.
Chapter VII It demands the destruction of one epistemology by another.
Chapter VIII But colonisation is more than “mere domination”.
Chapter IX It’s a new point of origin, an authentic beginning.
Chapter X A crime so great it is thought heroic.
Chapter XI Its beneficiaries understand; everything before is inferior.
Chapter XII And inferiors must be stricken from the record.
Chapter XIII But an epistemology maintained through violence.
Chapter XIV Is an epistemology constantly haunted by another’s craving for an authentic beginning.