Question is that an American history book. I know it rare to see "first nation" in the states but it has been years sunce i was in school.
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Many years later they say "go back to your country!"
In The Man in The High Castle TV show, kids were literally taught that black Americans moved out on their own accord.
I thought they traded their land for a Cadillac ac ac ac, you ought to know by now.
they had a nice neighbourly chat
Don't forget the natives also begged the settlers to teach them about Jesus so they could be saved!
Where is this from?
Canadian school textbook in 2017. Unsurprisingly it has some other revisionist history in there about First Nation people. The one called out in the article could almost be an Always Sunny joke it's so incredibly dark:
The book informed children that First Nations peoples "moved to areas called reserves, where they could live undisturbed by the hustle and bustle of the settlers"
2017? that's grim