“Wow,” Sandra exclaimed. “This was built before our country was even discovered.”
“Yes it was,” answered Sandra’s mother. “A lot of structures in England were built long before America was discovered. But did you know that America existed before it was discovered by Europeans?”
“But how can something exist before it’s been discovered?” Sandra asked.
“That’s an excellent question,” Sandra’s mother said. “The land existed and people who we now call ‘Native Americans’ lived there. But the Europeans thought they were uncivilized and primitive, so they didn’t really count, and then the white descendants of the Europeans nearly wiped them out.”
(100 words)
Written for the Friday Fictioneers prompt by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.
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