atrophykills:

idionymon:

thinking about how the burning of the library of alexandria is remembered as the most prominent historical symbol of the destruction of knowledge…but that’s nothing compared to the thousands of entire languages killed in America and Australia by the colonialists…

And the knowledge that went with it too. Indigenous Australians are always portrayed as hunter-gatherers, but they practiced agricuture and built permanent/semi-permanent settlements. There are even records by early European colonists of them baking bread from native grain crops which are no longer grown, and ploughing fields of yam daisies and vanilla lilies.

And after all that, we only remember them for spearing kangaroos and eating berries.