This series draws largely from Lies My Teacher Told Me by
James Loewen, 1995. This is a gem of a book that provides an insight to a textbook
publishing industry that borders propagandistic.
“Stripped of the rosy
filters, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of
England, Russia, Indonesia, and Burundi, but neither is it exceptionally less
violent.”
“Our culture and
textbooks still stereotype Native Americans as roaming primitive hunting folk,
unfortunate victims of progress. American Indians have been the most lied-about
subset of our population.”
Columbus
Pilgrims and Early Virginians
1838: The Trail of Tears
The Five Civilized
Tribes [Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole] were force-marched
to Oklahoma from their homelands of Georgia, Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, and
Tennessee. In Choctaw, “Oklahoma” translates “land for red people.”
2nd
Infantry Division
Fort Sill,
Oklahoma
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