Consider it lucky that any information on the highlanders still exists. Longshanks the king of England made sure he destroyed key texts in a cleansing of the people. There was no recorded history of the Picts for a start. The people of the highlands faced oppression with the outlawing of carrying weapons called the disarmament act (even though weaponry is a key part of their cultural dress). They were massacred and the chiefs were replaced with landlords who drove the highlanders off their land for farming sheep. Spread to the far corners where they lived away from their homelands, denied the right to speak their own language and learn about their rich history. Systematic oppression actually tried to destroy their history and turn it into pseudo-history. It is outrageous that a country that was once split in two between the highlands and the lowlands population-wise has been reduced to a barren wasteland.
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