PugJesusThat's an, uh, **extremely suspect** phrasing there, school textbook
Explanation: For those of you who are not aware of European colonial history in the Americas, the First Nations ‘agreed’ to move only at gunpoint - when, of course, they were not shot outright and agreements eschewed completely. The phrasing here makes it sound much less like ethnic cleansing, when, you know, it was ethnic cleansing.
kubicaThe phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.
Damn, I completely missed that XD
Settler: I’ll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you’ll be rich.
Native: what are these green papers
It probably wasn’t green at the time since ya know the US didn’t exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.
samus12345Also, this was Canada.
A bit more:
If we're talking about US history, this page would be in reference to Europeans arriving in the 1600s. By that time, the population of North America had been dramatically reduced by foreign disease. For the comparatively small number of foreigners showing up, there kind of already was "room" because of that.
Later on, when the US government was actively relocating people, different groups of people responded in different ways. Some decided it would be best to cooperate. Some decided it would be best to stand their ground and fight. None did these things because they freely "agreed" to.
Based on the map and the use of “First Nations,” this is a Canadian textbook. I have no doubt this happens (and worse) in American textbooks, though.
Aha, yes, definitely true. I'm far more familiar with US history, but my understanding is that the way Native Americans / First Nations were treated by the US and Canada are equally horrible, only differing in the details.
Some of those details are critical. The very first settlers in Canada were French, and many actually integrated into First Nations populations, which gave rise to the Métis population. Later on, especially after the British took over, things went downhill.
There was some integration by the British early on. I'm thinking of the Roanoke colony, where the people who were left there "disappeared," leaving only some cryptic "Croatoan" marks on fenceposts. It's all but certain that they integrated with the Croatoan people on Ocracoke Island. There were other incidents of British integration, but I'm sure the French up north did that a lot more.
I’m from Oklahoma, the place we relocated Native Americans, formerly known as Indian Territory. We studied the Trail of Tears more than once, and it wasn’t candy coated. Probably could have been presented as even more brutal than they taught us.
“Quebec City” is a big clue, too.
Yep:
Based on the map
Oops, missed that part!
Heh. No worries. I get it. If I had a nickel…
textbooks made in other countries also include maps of Canada - your geographical secrets are known to us!
Several of these people actually succeeded in prosecuting a war against invading US forces like the Shoshone.
Then, of course, we just reneged on the treaties later when they weren’t on a war footing.
Hey in some parts they moved because Europeans ruined the hunting grounds and devastated the local ecology.
IninewCrowIn Canada, they made these agreements to force my people onto small reservations with limited supports, services or funds. Part of my treaty heritage is that we get an annual payment for signing onto the treaty - everyone gets a bit of money every year. When they signed onto the treaty in 1904, they agreed on giving $2 per person every year … we still get that $2 every year. Every other historic agreement with the Royal family or international agreement is adjusted to inflation … but Indian treaties (they’re called ‘Indian’ because that is what the original term was, so it is kept in use when referring to treaties) they all remained the same.
They can adjust agreements made with Europeans to adjust with the times
They don’t, won’t or can’t adjust monetary amounts when it comes to Indian treaties in Canada.
anon6789Bank of Canada’s inflation calculator only goes back to 1914, and that says $2 CAD from then is worth $54.47 CAD today (39.83 USD, 35.06 EUR) so it does not look like that was any type of good deal back then, nor would it be today even if it increased with the CPI.
Totally shameful what the governments continue to do in regard to native people. It’s not like they forget you’re there, since I’m guessing they have to approve the payment every time, so it seems to be an active and ongoing choice each time to deliver that slap in the face. Makes it hard to say it was just a mistake in the past but those of us alive now have no responsibility in that.
That’s quite a limited perspective. Violence was only one of the coercive tactics that were employed. The way you’ve phrased this makes it sound like the other ways in which first nations people were removed from their land were not also horrible.
orcaGet ready. This is how all school textbooks are going to be from here on out—if they aren’t already. Probably worse.
This is how they have been. Trying to change that is the type of stuff that has riled folks up about wokeness.
Wasn’t like that when i was in school in texas 90s-2000s but no doubt it is like that now
My schooling in the 70s and 80s was all about how great Columbus was and how helpful and gracious native people were to the people who came on the Mayflower. There might have been a paragraph about the Trail of Tears. Manifest Destiny was taught as a good thing.
The fact is that there's limited space in general [nation] history books, and in the US at least, the fight for that space is heavily influenced by national/civic pride and American Exceptionalism.
all school textbooks
Perfect!
Based on the map and the use of “First Nations,” this is actually a Canadian textbook.
Ah yeah it looks like it. Canadian textbooks are usually better but I remember learning about the “peaceful treaties” in my younger years in school.
AHorseWithNoNeighThe Great Pirate Era
The Trail of Tears Totally Not Forced Displacement & Genocide
they were tears of happiness on how happy they were that their ancestral homes were now under the stewardship of the colonist
As my old landlord used to say, “it looks like white people live here.” And then he’d call the house a shithole and have his son make shitty repairs.
The Trail of Tears of Joy
-Republicans
starman2112Wounded Knee according to the America education system
heavyboots“Agreed” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Like for values of a long, drawn out war and slaughter coast to coast with many, many broken promises…
CaptainBlagbirdFollowed by a trail of tears.
Must have been happy tears because they got new friends…
Must have been happy tears because they got new friends…
That’s an, uh, extremely suspect laughably wrong and evil phrasing there, school textbook
Ftft
Yep this isn’t a mistake; it’s a malicious lie.
wizblizzYou sure about that? You sure about how come that’s why?
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flangoEuropeans caused many genocides in the Americas. That’s what books would look like if Hitler had won WW2.
“Knowing they were responsible for all the problems in the world, the Jews decided to take some time to concentrate on self reflection at the summer camps we built. Their overwhelming guilt caused many of them to work themselves to death”
Demonstration: The final stage of a genocide is the denial that it was a genocide.
Idk, that final stage tends to occur quite early on
yea the final stage is more like covering up that there was one
Oh, not PR, actual denial, of everything. First, you get rid of the people, because they shouldn’t be there, then you remove any trace they were there, because they shouldn’t have been there, and finally, you remove even the memory of there being a removal, because they weren’t there, there was nobody there, ever.
SmokeyDopeLol some of these comments are completely ignoring the reality of why it was phrased this way. Its a textbook for school children probably below the age of 10. Do you really expect middle school public education teachers to explain genocide and ethnic clensing to eight year olds? They slowly introduce the truth come highschool when kids are older because its horrific and toddlers have no need for their childhood to be ruined with horrific adult truths. Weren’t you allowed to believe pilgrims and Indians cam e together for Thanksgiving for a few years of your childhood?
valtiaNo because I’m native american and was confronted with the reality of genocide and ethnic cleansing everyday
White children can handle it too
BlackmistMost white adults can’t handle it because of this.
I see where your coming from but I don’t think whitewashing it is the answer…they could’ve just stated where the settlements were and that native people were displaced it doesn’t have to say anything about genocide and can just cover that aspect of it later.
This just sets the wrong framework for the later education your talking about
They slowly introduce the truth come highschool
In US, curriculum’s are different from state to state. SOME children eventually receive the truth, and having learned the truth realize they were lied to by their educators and lose trust in the education system. Other children never learn the truth, and instead argue that there was no genocide because thats what they were taught in school. If the country is willing to make bombs that get dropped on children around the world, then surely we can drop a few truth bombs on our own children.
Do you really expect middle school public education teachers to explain genocide and ethnic clensing to eight year olds?
Yes.
Then what, explain why we dont actually give the land back because nobody actually cares outside of virtue signaling?
Where’s the hard part?
Don’t explain, “I don’t know”, or “ask them” goes far. Better than telling garbage.
It really isn’t that hard. “The European colonists forced the native population off their land.” You can spare the rape and murder until the kids are older, but don’t just outright lie to them
I did my best to explain slavery to my daughter when she was 6 because due to COVID, we were basically home schooling her…
Yeah, middle school is literally where it was hammered in for me. I think around ~4th grade we started to get some more serious “We treated the Native Americans really poorly”, but I remember very starkly from 6th grade on that we got a pretty robust view of the historical-scale resolution of the genocides, even though they weren’t referred to as such. Invasions, broken treaties, massacres, and backstabbing.