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.
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That's an, uh,
extremely suspectlaughably wrong and evil phrasing there, school textbook
Ftfy
Found a source for the text book.
If you know anything about the Residency Schools, you'll know that Canada is actually behind the US on this issue. A few years ago, someone shared on reddit their kid taking home an assignment asking the student to list all the positive things that Residency Schools did for First Nation kids.
Hmm depends what you mean by "like Australia". Australia were brutal about how they treated their indigenous population. Straight up to kidnapping their kids and trying to breed them out of existence, last century...
I don't know how they teach it today but I know they still have a long way to go to making things better.
New Zealand on the other hand, while doing some fucked up shit of their own, have gone a long way to teaching the atrocious treatment of their indigenous people and try very hard to embrace and grow the culture of it within the worst populace. Might be a better comparison?
We recently had an issue where students were taught slaves in the US were taught valuable job skills also a teacher was asked to teach both sides of the holocaust
Demonstration: The final stage of a genocide is the denial that it was a genocide.
Europeans caused many genocides in the Americas. That's what books would look like if Hitler had won WW2.
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
Get ready. This is how all school textbooks are going to be from here on out—if they aren’t already. Probably worse.
all school textbooks

Based on the map and the use of "First Nations," this is actually a Canadian textbook.
This is how they have been. Trying to change that is the type of stuff that has riled folks up about wokeness.
Well if you mean they slaughtered the fighters, deliberately infected the tribe with smallpox, and marched the survivors out at gunpoint, then sure.
There are indeed some cases where there was a willing exchange but in VERY EARLY days before a genocidal critical mass arrived.
"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…
Japanese schools censorship of their atrocities during the WW2 is legendary. The prevailing understanding there during their 3 years occupation of Indonesia from 1942 to 1945 is that they're liberating Indonesia from the Dutch and the 3 years were setting up Indonesian independence working with local people.
In the Netherlands we call the times where we shipped all the slaves from Africa to America the "golden age".
You can be sure I did not learn much about this in school either.
Hey OP, you should name and shame the textbook if you're willing. It could be PII, so only do it if you feel safe with that and it doesn't give away too much, but we should share who/where is spreading lies like this. I'm sure it's supported by the "the left wants to rewrite American history" people.
Question is that an American history book. I know it rare to see "first nation" in the states but it has been years sunce i was in school.


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