Response paper to "Indians"

The way in which a historian judges and even describes an “event” – depending on the historians perspective that the “event” either did or did not occur – the “event” must go in quotation marks because the judgments and descriptions are a function of the historian’s position in relation to the subject. In this case the author set out to research what happened between the English settlers and the natives in seventeenth-century New England only to discover that there were many conflicting versions of the same “event(s).”
Subsequently, the authors’ main issue is: The challenge post-structuralism poses to the study of history. The way in which a historian judges and even describes an “event” – depending on the historians perspective that the “event” either did or did not occur – the “event” must go in quotation marks because the judgments and descriptions are...