The following is based on chapter four of James W. Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me” (2008). It uses his facts but it is not quite how he put it:
American high schools teach history to make you proud of America. They have to do this in the teeth of one of the greatest crimes of history: wiping out Native Americans and taking their land, more farmland than in all of China. To do this they lie about Native Americans.
The lies:
- North America was mostly empty. Just a few tribes of hunter-gatherers here and there travelling through virgin wilderness.
- Natives were backward, too backward to farm the land, too backward to understand land as property.
- Natives were incapable of change, incapable of successfully living in civilized society.
- The tragedy that unfolded was unavoidable. There was no other reasonable outcome.
What we are supposed to conclude: It…
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