Microlecture 1 Part A There There

 In Microlecture 1 Part A on Tommy Orange's There There, I thought it was interesting how storytelling in the Native American culture dates back to the start of the existence of Indigenous people.  It goes back to before the idea of print, so the definitions of "writing" or "storytelling" could differ.  One thing that struck out to me was how stories like Pocahontas do not portray what actually happened between Europeans and Native Americans, and I think it is terrible that society often hides the truth about Indigenous people.  Another thing that I thought was terrible was how Europeans pretended to see what they wanted to see rather than what they actually saw.  The causes of this problem include preconceived ideas, biases about European superiority, fear of the other, ignorance, as well as greed and violence.  I feel so bad for Indigenous people and what they had to go through with dealing with the ignorance, greed, and violence of colonizers.  There is also a lot that we do not know due to these Europeans like Columbus seeing what they wanted to rather than reality.  I also thought it was interesting to learn about the different precolumbian civilizations like Cahokia and the Mayan civilizations.  It makes me wonder what the world would be like today if Europeans had not taken their land away.  This adds to my understanding of There There because it gave me another example of the stories of Indigenous people not being true like how Tommy Orange gave the example of Thanksgiving.