Question to American comrades: How are the genocides of native Americans and Lebensraum manifest destiny being taught in American schools? What does the average American know?
I remember being taught that it was just their desire to expand to the Pacific Ocean, they believed it was their god given destiny. Big focus on that. I don’t recall a lot of all of emphasis on how it impacted the natives.
My school rushed all the events of US history, “manifest destiny” was no exception and was merely a brief footnote, though the trail of tears was mentioned.
The only history I remember from school was that Constantinople was the capitol of the Byzantine empire. I do know that outside of school, it’s generally widely understood that the colonists genocided native americans. Then government certainly doesn’t try to prevent anyone from talking about Manifest Destiny being just a fancy word for murder
Question to American comrades: How are the genocides of native Americans and
Lebensraummanifest destiny being taught in American schools? What does the average American know?I remember being taught that it was just their desire to expand to the Pacific Ocean, they believed it was their god given destiny. Big focus on that. I don’t recall a lot of all of emphasis on how it impacted the natives.
I learned Christopher Columbus would chop the hands off of indians that didn’t follow orders, and we wiped out 95% plus of their population
But I went to school in California. Unfortunately, other states can teach their version of history
My school rushed all the events of US history, “manifest destiny” was no exception and was merely a brief footnote, though the trail of tears was mentioned.
The only history I remember from school was that Constantinople was the capitol of the Byzantine empire. I do know that outside of school, it’s generally widely understood that the colonists genocided native americans. Then government certainly doesn’t try to prevent anyone from talking about Manifest Destiny being just a fancy word for murder