american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊
me: that sounds nice! what happened next?
american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert
me: that sounds nice! what happened next?
american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert
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Cuts through the bullshit
I also call "canada day" the same thing
*some other countries are still unpleasant, but we'll fix 'em
You went on to Kill & dispose the very People who saved you from Starvation!
A real kick in the guts for the Surviving Native Americans. 🥺
It seems we have a thing about food. 🤔
Did you mean All the Countries ALSO find It odd as well?
It was early Sat morning
The landing of the 1st Fleet Invasion is divisive enough here...
BUT the Aboriginals didn't provide Food for them....before they Killed them.
We still sorta hate Spaniards (they deserve it) but we do struggle with eurocentrism.
😈
Idk what it is with Europeans and raping children, but thats still in the white mans blood today
this was in 2011 btw
And slavery
Highly recommend looking deeper into it
Some consistencies woth it are its always a woman, (like its always there great'4 grandma or something)
Its super racist, but really interesting
cherokee didn't have anything like the european concept of nobility or royalty
"if they's some dirty savages in muh bloodline, at least they was the king of the savages."
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwCiRao53J1zC_zUgjuB7hIVreGthh9nF&si=tHMyRJKYd17TSofK
I'm assured this wasn't shameless propaganda.
yep, im making it political
5 - 8 - "So, we *may* have lied to you....a little"
9 - 12 - "So....we may have lied to you....a lot"
College - "Funny story....."
Unless it’s about the Roman Empire, then it’s tolerated by edgy forever-online conservatives.
They weren't ready for the truth. But they needed to hear it.
We killed the Indigenous population. Those who survived had their culture forcibly taken from them. Taught them to be "civilized".
We taught them to be civilized; they should have been teaching us how to be human.
We need to be honest about our history and the harm we caused.
If we refuse to do this we will never become the Land of the Free for everyone.
I love my nation. It is precisely because I love America that I speak up. We must learn from our history, our mistakes. If we cannot do this we are doomed.
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Northwest Ontario
Northeast British Columbia
Southern Northwest Territories
Northern Montana and North Dakota
it's funny they named it after his first name. like who goes into a city, puts their indelible mark on it and in thanks everyone decides to call it "dave?"
They were upset because it went against the narrative that Pierre was a trapper and entrepreneur. They never went into detail. I did.
The immigrants began to kill us and steal our stuff
*except for the slavery we still wanted allowed.
Schools: "How about a game of Uno everybody?"
https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets
They wanted us all did, more so, they wanted us to all suffer before we did die
Fucking whites i swear to god
I see alot of people using indigenous as well, its just more respectful
In canada the official turm is first Nations
But thats a month full and i find it hard to use in conversations naturally
So as mentioned, i use indigenous
Yup, the Trail of Tears was a real blessing, thousands died. At the beginning it was estimate 5 to 15 million Native Americans, by 1900 around 238,000 still lived. Yeah we were a blessing!?
Elementary School: And the pilgrims and the natives sat around the table and ate turkey like one big family!
Middle School: So remember when we said how they ate like one big family? Ehe...
The truth hurts, but it frees our children to act differently.
If we don’t acknowledge our historic actions, how can we know who we are capable of being, nor what we are capable of achieving together, including much that we need not repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyvTCaoFA0
The Peoples History of America by Howard Zinn
That summer he was having a problem with an early computer game (1986) about Alice in Wonderland
I suggested he read the book
He did
Then Thru the Looking Glass
He loved them more than the game
In September I told his new
She read the kids great books and one day noticed Z was reading along with her
She tested him out at Grade 5
I suggesting reading real books
I was School Board member
She a master teacher
We started a literature based reading
bought real books for the class rooms
It was amazing to see kids actually enjoy reading real books
That was 30 years ago
I don't know if it's managed to last thru time
No good deed goes unpunished? 👀🥺
Most of those natives died of disease shortly after.
16th or 17th C Thanksgiving is a myth.
In any case, The OFFICIAL holiday started in 1864.
Don't try to obfuscate the truth.
The real conflicts and horrors cam much later.
By the second full harvest, there would have been very few natives in the region to genocide since they were killed by smallpox and other things.
https://bsky.app/profile/lightningduck.bsky.social/post/3lbzvdtp7n22l
Humans are such a polarity = amazing, loving, beautiful souls mixed in with greedy, cruel self serving ghouls.
You very well know that a properly braised human thigh hank is like a cloud of heaven meat. (What are those little star shaped flavor things … oh yeah, cloves)
Now we Donner party pantleg La La La La
OK get a god damn grip for Hanuman’s sake.
Where was I?
Oh yeah, hi
You’re OK
American schools: okay kids let’s learn about Thanksgiving!!
BOOM BOOM BOOM 💥
*kids run and hide*
School overhead: attention, there is an active shooter on campus.