Lies My Teacher Told Me

George Washington changed his attitudes toward Indians. Washington held positive views of Native Americans early in his life, bu ...

chose among real alternatives and were often divided among themselves. At various points in our history, our anti-Indian policie ...

to racial harmony: a predominantly European but nonracist United States that did not differentiate racially between Indians and ...

may therefore call “white society,” through marriage. After her, most interracial couples found greater acceptance in Native soc ...

When they stress Natives’ alleged unwillingness to acculturate, American histories slip into the story line of the official seal ...

whites had been burning Native houses and cornfields for 186 years, beginning in Virginia in 1622. A census taken among the Cher ...

appropriated the house for themselves, according to Lela Latch Lloyd. No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, th ...

would be without resources. People around us would then blame us L people for being vagrants. That is what happened to Native Am ...

think to include Indian wars, individually or as a whole. The Indian-white wars that dominated our history from 1622 to 1815 and ...

Anti-Indian racism eased considerably during the twentieth century. Taking advantage of their special status as “dependent domes ...

Perhaps Native Americans can break through the dilemma of acculturation and become modern and Indian. Certainly their artists ha ...

enlightened ones merely champion better treatment for Indians while stopping short of suggesting that our society might still be ...

5. “GONE WITH THE WIND” THE INVISIBILITY OF RACISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be ...

cannot use our experiences during and after the Civil War for the uplift and enlightenment of mankind. —W. E. B. DUBOIS^3 More A ...

European attempts to settle. Perhaps the most pervasive theme in our history is the domination of black America by white America ...

America’s failure to allow African Americans equal rights led eventually to the struggle for civil rights a century later. The s ...

people to take their own lives. Or in some cases it led them to revolt against white slaveholders.” Life and Liberty takes a fla ...

Slavery was the underlying reason that South Carolina, followed by ten other states, left the Union. In 1860, leaders of the sta ...

use federal power to legitimize slaveholding in Kansas the next year. Only after they lost control of the executive branch in th ...

territories,” being separate from them, so this paragraph confuses more than it explains. Several other recent textbooks are equ ...