we coverd most of those things as well - Edit 1
Before modification by Apsalar Shadowdancer at 06/02/2010 08:09:27 PM
The Trail of Tears, of course, was just one episode in a sustained Westward Expansion policy that inevitably saw Indians slaughtered, pushed off their lands, infected with diseases, hooked on alcohol and marginalised. When I was in school, we discussed that, as well as the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, the civil rights movement and a whole host of other events in US History where a lot of people should not be proud of what they did to their fellow Americans.
I'm just saying that in my school the Genocide of the Jews in WWII got like 2-3 weeks of coverage, while the american Genocide of Native Americans is really glossed over. They talk about stealing their land and moving them into Reservations, but they never really go into how many of them were killed. it was a genocide worse than the holocaust.
I think this gets to me mostly because I have some Native American friends, and have don't some charity work in Reservations such as the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. That is a terrible place, a third world country right inside America.