Teachers Strive to Ensure Students ‘Unlearn’ Thanksgiving ‘Myth’

Teachers across America are striving to have their students “unlearn” what progressive activists say is nothing more than a “feel-good” Thanksgiving “myth.”

“Thanksgiving became a national holiday during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, and the myth of familial relations between colonial settlers and Native Americans has persisted in American culture ever since,” says Education Week:

The education media outlet interviewed Jacob Tsotigh, tribal education specialist for the National Indian Education Association, who said, “There’s less and less” of K-12 teachers having students participate in the narrative of the early American settlers sharing a meal with Native Americans.

Tsotigh said more Americans are being “made aware of that version being a myth, and our realization that there is a really different perspective that needs to be considered.”

Rep. Tony Gonzales announces he will not seek re-election amid House Ethics investigation into affair

Federal agents arrest 12 alleged members of LA’s massive 18th Street gang drug trafficking operation

Ohio mother charged with murdering two daughters found buried in suitcases near Cleveland

DOJ officials say Biden autopen investigation has not closed despite reports

DOJ continues Biden autopen probe despite former president unlikely to face charges

US restores diplomatic relations with Venezuela amid push for democratic transition

Operation Epic Fury destroys Iran’s navy and cuts missile attacks by 90% in ongoing campaign

Watch: Here’s the Moment That Appears to Have Cost Kristi Noem Her Job as DHS Secretary

Tears of joy and relief: DHS and Trump insiders celebrate Kristi Noem departure

Disaster for Tucker Carlson as Literally Millions of His Nicotine Pouches Are Hijacked by LA Pirates

Trump’s new tariff plan barrels back to court following multistate lawsuit

Black Democrats Unleash on Jasmine Crockett After Embarrassing Primary Loss

Trump’s new DHS pick is an illegal immigration hawk who’s ‘all about the mission’: expert

White Police Officers Sue Philadelphia Over DEI Promotions, Say They Were Passed Over for Political Reasons

Kristi Noem’s ouster ‘changes nothing’ for Democrats blocking DHS funding

He added that more public school teachers are reaching out to tribal communities to “connect to authentic teaching sources.”

Education Week continued:

To help students appreciate colonial oppression of Natives and the violence that ensued from it, Tsotigh recommends reframing the holiday as an opportunity to honor representatives of Native communities who greeted European visitors with open arms.

“They didn’t perceive them as invaders at the time because their numbers were so small,” Tsotigh said. “They felt from the mindset of Native people that we share with those less fortunate. That was part of how that myth evolved.”

For “related video,” Education Week linked to a 2018 PBS NewsHour report titled “Teaching the Real Lessons of Thanksgiving.”

“Thanksgiving is often seen as a quintessential feel-good holiday, but many argue the way it’s taught in schools perpetuates myths as well as being disrespectful to Native Americans,” PBS host Judy Woodruff states, adding these individuals claim the traditional Thanksgiving story “leaves out the context of relations between them and the early immigrants, how the settlers brought diseases, for example, that decimated native tribes or information about the massacres of natives that followed.”