Did they march around the walls a few times as well? If so, you may be f#&-$@

Edit: wow, I can't type on my phone this morning

That's a classic one there. We just watched that movie with my son, and talked about how none of it was real.

My tinfoil hat can run Doom on Linux

When I went to Mesa Verde at a kid, the story that was told was of the people who found (and rescued) the ruins. They talked about the great mystery of where the "Anasazi" went (that term isn't used anymore).

When I took my son a year ago, the whole park had changed the story completely. No more was there a story of Western Discovery, but of a people who are still around (the Puebloans). The rangers were all Puebloans and told stories they were taught as children. They told us an oral story of their ancestors, who lived in a cave dwelling, that faced exactly north, and had 7 Kivas. That exact dwelling is known in Mesa Verde. Spanish monks had recorded the story before the "rediscovery", and only recently was such stories/evidence taken seriously. There was no mystery.

The experience visiting 30ish years apart was astonishing. I was heartened at the change. The large museum is being rebuilt to enhance that narrative.

It might be a small bit of justice, but at least it's something.

Ever since was about 10 and I was taken to Mesa Verde in Colorado, I totally started to distrust history as I'd been taught. Before, or was all about American exceptionalism, divine providence, western expansion, etc. I was told about Native Americans as they collided with Americans. Never was I taught about the history that existed long before, like the Ancestral Puebloans that built such amazing things, and had such amazing culture. I still feel guilty sometimes. I've been taking my son to places like that (Mesa Verde, Toas Pueblo, some of the plentiful reservations near Olympic National Park in Washington.

Bonus picture I took at the entrance to Mesa Verde that I found very powerful:

He needs to release his long form birth certificate as well.

It's stomach churning stuff.

Great podcast on the unfiltered version of the Columbus Story:

https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-8/episode-178-columbus-part-i/

Fun fact: Christopher Columbus is not celebrated in Italy or Spain. They want nothing to do with him.