Posted on 11/23/2020 7:42:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BOSTON - A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That’s yesterday’s Thanksgiving story.
Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson that includes conflict, injustice and a new focus on the people who lived on the land for hundreds of years before European settlers arrived and named it New England.
Inspired by the nation’s reckoning with systemic racism, schools are scrapping and rewriting lessons that treated Native Americans as a footnote in a story about white settlers. Instead of making Pilgrim hats, students are hearing what scholars call “hard history” - the more shameful aspects of the past.
Students still learn about the 1621 feast, but many are also learning that peace between the Pilgrims and Native Americans was always uneasy and later splintered into years of conflict.
On Cape Cod, language arts teacher Susannah Remillard long found that her sixth grade students had been taught far more about the Pilgrims than the Wampanoag people, the Native Americans who attended the feast. Now she’s trying to balance the narrative.
She asks students to rewrite the Thanksgiving story using historical records, and then she asks them to write a poem from the perspective of a person from that time, half settlers and half Wampanoag.
“We carry this Colonial view of how we teach, and now we have a moment to step outside that and think about whether that is harmful for kids, and if there isn’t a better way,” said Remillard, who teaches at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in East Harwich, Massachusetts. “I think we are at a point where people are now ready to listen.”
In Arlington Public Schools near Boston, the district is working to expand and correct classroom teachings on Native Americans, including debunking Thanksgiving myths.
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After they take power, one of the first things the communists do is rewrite history. The result is what we see all around us right now.
Wow, the AP has gone beyond its official duties of calling Presidential elections and is now determining what needs to be taught for the re-education of our children.
Every year I get out the “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” DVD and watch it. Takes me back to simpler days.
History has always been written by the winners.
And people who were literate.
No longer.
Is AP run by the same kind of people at Black Rifle Coffee?
They are glorifying the Stone Age.
If some Indians got on a boat and discovered Europe and invented steam engines and stuff, I’d give them props.
But all the Indians ever did was walk into America, wipe out the mammoths, burn down the forests in the middle of the continent turning it into a desert, and eat, crap and kill each other for 13,000 years.
And down south they were butchering millions of human sacrifices. If you want to compare somebody to Hitler and the Nazis, how about Montezuma and the Aztecs? Cortez gave them the least they deserved.
When the Pilgrims arrived, the Stone Age was done. Get over it.
I was smart enough in 4th grade social studies to spot that multiculturalism was bull before I ever heard the word.
If you got a kid in school, give them this to start like I gave it to my 4th grade teacher back in 1971.
They got rid of Columbus day, Christmas is now just a shopping “holiday”, getting rid of Thanksgiving is next.
I remember my jr high social studies book, this would be around 1960 or so, warning how if the communists ever took over the country, they’d be doing things like rewriting our history books to make the Founders villains. It seemed so far-fetched at the time.
Now that “we are at a point where people are ready to listen . . .”
1) Show a video of a partial birth abortion, in the classroom, on the CNN monitors at the airport, on the nightly news of all the alphabet stations.
2) Detail the procedure by which *SOME* North American Indians, on a raid, would “treat” some of the captives. For example: If a young child who was captured, continued to scream and cry, an Indian would grab the child by the child’s feet, swing the child around in the air, and then stop that child’s motion - ABRUPTLY - by smashing the child’s head against a rock or tree.
3) Continuing with TRUTH and how *SOME* North American Indians would “treat” people, describe how a captive was butchered and mutilated, and possibly after that “custom,” burned “at the stake” (means sometimes bound to, or attached by a leather “rope”).
4) Explain why, over several centuries of European fishing and resource gathering -— by way of visiting along the shores of northeastern-present-day North America -— were constantly prevented from securing any safe foothold, because the “natives” would attack and butcher almost every camp that had been set up, ashore.
5) Decscribe the “pantheon” of North American Indians, who arrived in varying numbers from the west (modern day eastern Russian, Chinese, Mongolian, and Korean territories) . . . and what the successive arrivals did to:
The existing “indigenous tribes.”
If you guessed, that a follow-up tribe “B” slaughtered an established tribe “A” -— then you guessed correctly.
In fact, among some tribes, there are varying terms that describe most accurately, what happened; and translating for that set of terms, they all mean one thing:
“rubbed out”
Complete extermination, except for some captives who were absorbed.
Setting aside for now, the other truth about “indigenous natives:”
They are not ecologists who love “green.” Instead, *SOME* had/have a sense to preserver.
But *OTHERS* have no sense, and they simply gather food until the source is exhausted, and then move on to another location. (Setting aside weather conditions that also may cause a tribe to move.)
There were good people and bad people, as there are in all kinds of tribes around the globe -— no connection re color of skin.
In Ohio, there were a few villages to which banished people went, because they were asked, or forced, to leave a tribe.
The truth is, that there are varying degrees of self-discipline and self-restraint (in trying times), for all tribes.
By tribes, I mean greater/larger families -— this is what a tribe is, a large family in some cases, and a large family of neighbors in other cases.
Good habits and bad habits were, and remain, part of human life, passed along in some way.
Good people. Bad people.
Some people rushing to help. Some people having some compulsion to “mess with you.”
Some people whom you can trust. Other people, no.
God kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, but he left them, and all of us, with one gift:
The power of love. Along with, our individual will to love, or no.
Liberals, leftists, did not invent good, though they advertise the notion.
Jesus is good, and living water.
Truth.
I have said for years now we live in one giant re-education camp.
Buck Collin Finkley and the horse he rode in on.
It is interesting to read the accounts of the earliest contacts between the Spanish and the Indians. Usually they started out friendly but then turned sour (maybe because the Spanish kept demanding more and more gold). In other cases the Indians were hostile from the start (such as the Caribs). Likewise with the Norse in Newfoundland—the natives were hostile from the start. They teach American history as if the English colonists were the first Europeans in the New World.
The biggest myth being taught is that indians were peaceful tree-huggers. There is a reason that indians were called ‘savages’. From horrendously murdering infants of captured slaves because infants would slow the march back to the victor’s camp, to complete genocide of competing tribes, to levels of torture not seen even during the Spanish Inquisition. The barbaric lifestyle was universal, from Oregon to the Ohio Valley, from the Arctic to South America. Pilgrims brought with them the concepts of civilization and law.
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