The Theory of inevitability as an explanation of European-Indian contact / Gary Nash ; introduced by Ken Lincoln ; producedby Whiteskunk Productions.

Talk by Dr. Gary Nash, Professor of American History at UCLA, about how the assumption of historical inevitabiliy has shaped the way historians examine the past. Primary documents reflect an inevitable voice toward Native American peoples, and that bias has shaped the way Euramericans have written textbooks about contact in the 19th and 20th centuries. These Eurocentric histories present a negative view of Indigenous peoples within the white man's version of Manifest Destiny.|THE THEORY OF INEVITABILITY AS AN EXPLANATION OF EUROPEAN-INDIAN CONTACT / Gary Nash| introduced by Ken Lincoln| produced by Whiteskunk Productions. - SERIES: The Columbus paradox| no. 4 - Talk by Dr. Gary Nash, Professor of American History at UCLA, about how the assumption of historical inevitabiliy has shaped the way historians examine the past. Primary documents reflect an inevitable voice toward Native American peoples, and that bias has shaped the way Euramericans have written textbooks about contact in the 19th and 20th centuries. These Eurocentric histories present a negative view of Indigenous peoples within the white man's version of Manifest Destiny. - RECORDED: University of California, Los Angeles, Jan. 1992. BROADCAST: KPFK, 17 Mar. 1992.