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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

There are plenty of photographs of stuff we did against the natives, sure. I don't believe for two seconds that the average high school educated American has ever seen them. We don't go out of our way to teach that shit.

Thanks for the clarification about the Spanish doing it earlier than we did.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are plenty of photographs of stuff we did against the natives, sure. I don’t believe for two seconds that the average high school educated American has ever seen them. We don’t go out of our way to teach that shit.

    I suspect it very much depends on your era and region of schooling. I was not exactly attending a top school or in top classes, and the most infamous atrocities of the Indian Wars were covered in US History in high school. But I was in a blue state.

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