• Sylver@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Your school actually taught that?

      Mine was brushed under the rug as “We gave them peace deals and then they got plagues/sickness”

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        1 year ago

        I think my school taught about Custer and that was about the extent of “oh by the way we did horrible things to the native population”.

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        They’re supposed to follow up with that every year around Thanksgiving, introducing atrocities little by little until you’re learning about scalping, etc in middle school.