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.”

How mutiny at Southern Poverty Law Center triggered leadership collapse

Trump DOJ jumps into Musk xAI court battle as diversity fight heats up

GOP lawmaker targets left-wing jury nullification trainings in DC

How Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is embroiled in the Feeding Our Future scandal

Tim Tebow Announces the Death of His Father Like Only a Christian Could

Erika Kirk Quietly Arranged a White House Summit Between Trump and Disgruntled Influencers: Report

SPLC indictment builds momentum for Bessent’s Treasury to probe partisan nonprofits

Justice Department announces it’s readopting the firing squad as a means of execution

DOJ drops investigation into Jerome Powell, clearing way for Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh

House Must Stop Senate’s ‘Unconscionable’ Overnight Approval of Taxpayer-Funded Trans Treatments for Minors

Benjamin Netanyahu Announces Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Newsom-backed law lets illegal immigrant child rapist seek early release again as DA urges ‘stop the madness’

Senate hopeful says US should be ‘far more cooperative’ with China to fight climate change

Trump Responds After U.S. Soldier Allegedly Won $400,000 Gambling on Maduro Operation

Forensic genealogy unmasks cold case suspect as strangler, sexual predator decades later: officials

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.”