this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
1060 points (96.4% liked)

Memes

45730 readers
997 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
sexy_peach@feddit.de
cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
1060
US grade school textbooks (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by culprit@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
51 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 31 points 5 months ago

Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should've won.

Not our fault they didn't invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it pisses them off too

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

For First Thanksgiving?

Most of that is believed to have happened or is so cloaked in mythos that any version is likely to be true if you're talking the American version.

Source, native. The women being there is the thing that's least likely to be true.

Nearly all of what historians have learned about one of the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow, one of the 100 or so people who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men