Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands
- Written by Lisa Michelle King, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee
Native Americans depicted at the first Thanksgiving feast, in a 1960 film about the Pilgrims’ first year in America.AP PhotoToo often, K-12 social studies classes in the U.S. teach a mostly glossed-over story of U.S. settlement. Textbooks tell the stories of adventurous European explorers founding colonies in the “New World,” and...
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