it is taught in American schools.
did you just learn about the trail of tears?
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.
Also… yikes. The indigenous people were just like "no, no it’s cool, take our land, we’ve been wanting a smaller settlement anyway "
The trail of tears was from Florida to Oklahoma. We “gave” them Oklahoma and it was referred to as indaian territory
Then a few years later we took Oklahoma back from them, lol, and opened up the land runsl. I live in Oklahoma and the trail of tears was drilled into our heads throughout the years in public schools. Are they not teaching it anymore??
Either way we seriously fucked over a bunch of tribes. Seminole, Cherokee etc
They absolutely still teach the Trail of Tears in American schools, I don’t know why everyone still thinks it’s this big coverup.
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.
Lol that fails to mention that guns were aimed at them when they “agreed.”
You may want to actually read the book you’re using.
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.
Yeah, my school explicitly said the confederacy was right, should have won, and slavery wasn’t as bad as people say, and they still covered the trail of tears accurately.
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.
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.
As what a city man might call a redneck… Even my hodunk school taught this.
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
I learned about it in school in Texas, with all the deaths. You trippin. Go back to hexbear
Yeah, no. We covered this in elementary school, along with Japanese internment. I grew up in a small town of almost exclusively white people, too.
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.
It’s taught in German schools.
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.
We’re just going to downvote you for this ok. It happens.
Tulsa massacre is a better example of something glossed over in school.
Wikipedia places the death count at three times the number shown in this ‘meme’ at the low end, 4x at the high end. Also what a bizarre bit of phrasing, it’s literally called “The Trail of Tears” calling it evil is really gliding the lily.
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.
No, we’re a post racial society you see uwu. And no we won’t give the land back, we didn’t steal it, our racist ancestors did, and we’re not racist.
It took liberals less than half-a-year to get on board with genocide. It’s no surprise to me that they don’t want to be reminded of the ones closer to home, either.
