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Get ready. This is how all school textbooks are going to be from here on out—if they aren’t already. Probably worse.
Based on the map and the use of "First Nations," this is actually a Canadian textbook.
Ah yeah it looks like it. Canadian textbooks are usually better but I remember learning about the "peaceful treaties" in my younger years in school.
Perfect!
The Great Pirate Era
This is how they have been. Trying to change that is the type of stuff that has riled folks up about wokeness.
Wasn’t like that when i was in school in texas 90s-2000s but no doubt it is like that now
My schooling in the 70s and 80s was all about how great Columbus was and how helpful and gracious native people were to the people who came on the Mayflower. There might have been a paragraph about the Trail of Tears. Manifest Destiny was taught as a good thing.
The fact is that there's limited space in general [nation] history books, and in the US at least, the fight for that space is heavily influenced by national/civic pride and American Exceptionalism.