This series draws from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, 1995. This is a gem of a book that provides an insight to textbook publishing that borders propagandist. Stripped of the rosy filters, "U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, and Burundi, but nether is it exceptionally less violent."

 

“Our culture and textbooks still stereotype Native Americans as roaming primitive hunting folk, unfortunate victims of progress. American Indians have been the most lied-about subset of our population.”

 

 

Columbus

The Columbus Enigma

The Columbus Legacy

Columbus Discovers Haiti 1492

Columbus Strikes Gold in Haiti 1499

Columbus and the Slave Trade

 

Pilgrims and Early Virginians

The New England Plague – Early 1600s

The Pilgrims Arrive -- The Thanksgiving Myth

Squanto, Hobomok, and the Pilgrims

Early Virginians, Cannibalism, and Chemical Warfare

 

A Taste of the Savage Life

Democracy and Indians

Land Grab and Indian Enslavement

Native American Indian Wars

 

Trail of Tears - Description

The Five Civilized Tribes – Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole - were exiled to Oklahoma. In Choctaw, Oklahoma means “land for red people.”

 

 

2nd Infantry Division

Fort Sill, Oklahoma