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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Sorry dude. Those are pretty weak arguments in the face of reams of historical evidence to the contrary.
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Where are your reams of historical evidence? I did an opposite search and didn't see any evidence in the top hits.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...ny&btnG=Search
I did find a site briefly talking about countering prejudice against American Indians and Alaska Natives. They had this to say:
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Typically, when teaching about Native Americans, teachers favor two approaches in developing their lessons. The first is the "dead-and-buried culture approach," which portrays Native Americans as being extinct. Lessons tend to present information in the past tense, "Indians lived in tipis, they grew corn and hunted buffalo, they were very athletic, they lived in harmony with the land," and so forth.
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Neither approach provides non-Native students the tools they need to comfortably interact with American Indians and Alaska Natives. Instead, they teach simplistic generalizations about other peoples and lead to stereotyping, rather than to understanding (Derman-Sparks, 1993-94).
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http://www.ericdigests.org/1997-2/antibias.htm
Hmm, are they saying that you are not being taught how the Indians actually lived? Don't buy into the myth.