Bonus meme:
Your school actually taught that?
Mine was brushed under the rug as “We gave them peace deals and then they got plagues/sickness”
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”.
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.
Yeah and those fuckers wanna bitch about “indoctrination”
The concept of Cowboys & Indians being enemies is a Hollywood myth. The US Army killed more Amerinds than any cowboy ever did, and in most cases, the two groups banded together. By the time that the cowboys emerged (the mid-1860s), the native tribes had already been decimated in the previous three decades. Cowboys, marching the cows to the Eastern railroads, often traded some of the cattle to the starving Indians in exchange for help with navigating the land.
This is a good article on the history of Cowboys and Indians in pop culture
Hey, at least you realized that what happened was terrible.
There are some people who learn about that and think “The mistake was not finishing them off for good”. Brazil had one such president very recently.
