So clearly you aren’t an American. If you were American you would know about the Trail of Tears. It’s one of the landmark, pivotal chapters in American history that is actually taught: the people who were living here first were brutally repressed and removed from their own land and moved to parts of the country no one wanted, regardless of where the native people were from. So the folks who grew up around swamps on the Florida peninsula were moved to the dry, dusty wastes of Oklahoma. This is all stuff Americans learn.
So why are you posting this? You’re just a dumb fucking troll. Go fight and be a sunflower like the rest of your ilk.
This is currently taught in US schools. The image is ragebait.
Eventually this will get used in Florida to make sure we worship Christopher Columbus and don’t make white kids feel bad about what their great great great great grandparents did. Because somehow we can’t both acknowledge the bad and not have ancestral guilt. Oh maybe it makes white kids feel guilty because their parents are still teaching them they are better than people different from them. I think they should feel guilty.
Yeah Im with others on this. We were taught this and all the gory details. Same with slavery. We were not sheltered from the reality of any of it.
Just to give you some clarity, in 9th grade our teacher told us a historical account in which a slaveowner punished his slave by literally shitting in his mouth and sewing it shut.
We were made to understand the brutality of slavery.
Reminds me of a girl I knew posting on FB, “How come they don’t have changing stations in men’s rooms, huh?!”
LOL my god she got roasted. One guy was like, “You know $Brand you see in the bathroom? They in our bathrooms too and the company is headquartered in Tulsa. Where you’re from.”
And yes, The Trail of Tears was covered in OK classrooms, in the 80s.
I learned about it in school in Texas, with all the deaths. You trippin
I went to highschool in Utah in the 90s and it was covered pretty well… No glossing over or anything, tho I don’t remember it being in any text book, I just remembered it from regular lecture time in US history class
We’re just going to downvote you for this ok. It happens.
In Canada, we devote a lot of time discussing how Europe settled the Americas and what happened to the Natives. There are daily announcements from certain school boards acknowledging that we reside on land previously belonging to a certain First Nations group. We still have a way to go in terms of the treatment of our first Nations groups, but it’s become very common knowledge how horrible European settlers were to them.
I’m old af and I grew up in the south with most topics whitewashed but I even learned about this in school and it wasn’t sugar coated.
it is taught in American schools.
did you just learn about the trail of tears?
Can you share what book you got this from?
You may want to actually read the book you’re using.
That’s Canadian, the US doesn’t refer to indigenous Americans as “First Nations”. Native American is still the academic go-to south of the border.
Academic circles have preferred “American Indian” for a couple decades now. You still see “Native American” in lower-level materials (undergraduate and below), though.
Lol that fails to mention that guns were aimed at them when they “agreed.”
looks like an older Canadian textbook, not US.
trail of tears is a centerpiece in any section on native American history in US schools.
Yeah having lived in both countries, until recently the US was miles ahead in admitting its wrongs on Indigenous people. Things are starting to change here but I was amazed when I first moved to Canada how few knew the history.
It’s taught in German schools.
It wasn’t taught in my UK primary school. I didn’t take GCSE history, so I don’t know if it was taught in secondary school. Probably not, from what I’ve heard from other people the curriculum tends to be pretty Eurocentric.
Settlement of the new world by European migrants and colonialism are the overarching themes.
Taught in American schools too.
And I bet it’s because of how important the American genocides were to the concept of Lebensraum.
No it’s because we are taught world history, not just that which relates to our own country.
That’s kinda my point. Nothing is in a vacuum, national history is intrinsically linked to world history, and vice versa. In this case, American atrocities are foundational for an ideology built upon atrocities. It’s good to never forget how it happened. America could use those lessons.
