right?

Okay, assuming that is a correct statement, I have a number of questions.

First, how do we determine the winner?

In war, the winner is the one who kills the most people, or the one who has managed to contrive surrender. Therefore, the loser is the one who has had the most people die, or has been forced to surrender.

In the writing of history, it seems that the Victor has been the wealthy. oh Calm down. I say this only because the wealthy have, has a rule, been the ones with the education, and have been able to read and write. Or, in the instance of North America; European Settlers were taught how to read and write. The wealthier your family; the more likely you were to be able to read and write.

The various native tribes who were, whether we (we, being Europeans, because I, myself, am of European descent) want to admit it or not, were here first, They, however, shared an oral tradition for centuries before we showed up here. Which, of course literally meant that he who lived to tell the tale, was the one who got to tell it, and provides a possible explanation for the varying versions of the same tale.

While some versions of history may be pure fantasy, Others are, in fact, based on careful research, but are rejected because they conflict with what we know, and make us uncomfortable.

Just to make a point, I'll use a historical example from science: When Copenicus suggested in 1514 that the earth may not be the center of the universe, this made people uncomfortable, not because it was what they thought was right, or because they knew was true, but because by being the center of the Universe, they were closest to God, and if they were no longer in the center of the Universe, they were no longer as close to God as they believed they were. --Copernicus would certainly not have suggested anything this extreme if he didn't believe it. During the protestant reformation he remained loyal to the Catholic church. Something this extreme could have gotten him excommunicated.

They had the same reaction when Galileo suggested it a hundred or so years later, and for the same reason. Not because they thought it was wrong, but because t would force them to change their beliefs, their entire reality.