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9/1/14
Period 6
Lies My Teacher Told Me Annotation/Notes
Freedom
Natives usually seen as fighters for freedom (Tea Party)
Most textbooks don't acknowledge contributions
words, foods, ideas
ideas could only have been spread through positive interaction
Examples of syncretism
Religion
Native
Spirit in every organism
Stated like make-believe in textbooks
Reassessment of Natives' religion requires a reassessment of ours
Our religions don't allow other objects to be intelligent
Wars
200 years of fighting
Textbooks leave out the cost of Native wars
80% of cost during G.W.'s reign
Not just them to blame
Always avoid brutality on both sides
Conquest still not important enough
European warfare wiped out entire nations
Also occurred b/c of no fur trade- Natives gave Europeans everything,
Natives get nothing in return
Damage
Textbooks leave out major Native wars and costs of fighting with them
can't see them as stronger than us
Take out Native part of many other wars
Alternatives to war
Coexistence
Whites hindered coexistence
Land encroachments
Took away Indian land for themselves
Indian way of life too different
discrimination
not considered citizens
Intermarriage
British rejected them, where other nations accepted them
Indian state
Lawmaking bodies never even considered
Results/Legacy
Native history
Still survive- culturally/physically
Natives wouldn't have been able to acculturate- too many ways of life
Changes to Textbooks
Better treatment- step 1
Acknowledge Native contributions to modern-day society
Summary: The Europeans significantly changed the way Natives lived, in probably the
worst way possible. Today's textbooks make them out as savages, accidentally or for
the optimism of the readers, however the details of Native contributions to the modernday America have been rubbed out. The worst atrocities and best accomplishments
have both given way to savagery, misunderstanding, and even nomadic, all of
which improperly characterize this now lost series of races.