soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊 me: that sounds nice! what happened next? american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert 257204321995
Teryani @teryani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Maybe you should revisit your history. The tales told to you in grade school were intended to create a collective narrative, not reveal the truth of what happened during that time. 041
Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social · 30/11/2024american history books: there once was occasional unpleasantness*, but a few heroes--not regular people, and mostly men--fixed all the problems, and now we live in happily ever after. so go vote, work, and buy things. everything's fine. *some other countries are still unpleasant, but we'll fix 'em 020
mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Non-americans find the Thanksgivings Celebration really Odd. You went on to Kill & dispose the very People who saved you from Starvation! A real kick in the guts for the Surviving Native Americans. 🥺 2475
Julia Dilliard💙🌊🐴🇺🇦#Resist. 🚫maga. DM's are blocked. @juliadilliard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Then the Europeans set about on a quest to either annihilate the native population and steal "their" land or to force them to abandon their native ways & accept European culture while stealing their lands. 062
Ixtomi @ixtome.bsky.social · 29/11/2024It’s okay; they are smiling at how Americans act now, it’s like they saw it coming! 000
Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 29/11/2024For the next 40 years, the people of Plymouth and the Wampanoag lived in peace, abiding by a mutually beneficial treaty. What was done elsewhere and later doesn't negate that one little ray of peace and hope. The rest was TwitterX hell, but that time and place were Bluesky. 000
Lori Dziurda @ldzb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024My daughter is learning the accurate history in her fifth grade class rather than the traditional “Thanksgiving myth.” American public education isn’t a monolith. 0270
fhmyc.bsky.social @fhmyc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Google Play search for E-Play free music software 000
Noah Wyche @noahfleetwood.bsky.social · 29/11/2024American schools: Gaslighting distracting and programming. 030
N0d3: Travl3r D3si6nd7!0n: Ambasdador @mischievousmuse.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Ha! Thanksgiving 🦃 isn't in the Bible so it won't matter next year! 😈 000
NOT SPAM! #FREEB3K "The GRock" MAGA= evil 🌈💙🇺🇦🫘 @brian3000.bsky.social · 29/11/2024bsky.app/profile/bria...NOT SPAM! #FREEB3K "The GRock" MAGA= evil 🌈💙🇺🇦🫘@brian3000.bsky.socialHappy Thanksgiving everybody! 000
Rep. Margerine Trailer Green @margerinetrailerg.bsky.social · 29/11/2024THEY DRAFTED THE CONSTITUTION WITH JESUS AND EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER UNTIL THE DIRTY LIBERALS APPEARED #AMERICAFIRST #USAUSDA #KYMATICA -MTG 030
GemmaGem @tippytaff.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Our indigenous communities deserve our respect & the honest examination of truthful American history!! 0224
Pete Pann @isgd2bhi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Something Something... White Jesus was born in Alabama, and after Jesus killed the dinosaurs, the pilgrims had a whole nation to lead. In the name of god. 1102
Mrlky @mrlky.bsky.social · 29/11/2024What happened next according to family diaries of the Pilgrim families says they then went and killed all the men and most of the women and children 131
Jellyjam @spacebearoutthere.bsky.social · 29/11/2024everyone snuggled under (smallpox) blankets together 000
Sparkly @emsparkly.net · 28/11/2024Could be worse. When I was in kindergarten our all white school out in the sticks made us dress up as “Indians” and had us do dumb little songs with feather headbands on. 6371
Juju Sings @jujusings2danger.bsky.social · 01/12/2024That’s a very wokity woke take and I like it. 000
Roy must die @kilroywas-here.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Idk where this discourse comes from. I learned about the trail of tears in like 3rd grade. 011
ewmorningside.bsky.social @ewmorningside.bsky.social · 28/11/2024IMO, most history has been written by the conquerors 070
💙💚Brian is in the kitchen❤️🩶 @schmittydeck.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I went to school in the 70's and 80's. I didn't learn about King Philip's War until after I graduated. 4410
Eschaton Observatory @rlfield.bsky.social · 29/11/2024My public high school in the suburbs in the Eighties was actually pretty good about this. 021
I’m trying, very trying @horizonviewer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024To me it’s cool that on this US national holiday we get one of the most telling threads, a wide range of skeets on what would be normally taboo dinner table chat topics like colonialism, history, education, politics, racism, to name just a couple 020
Aphrodite Void @aphroditevoid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Glad my dad made me read Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. 020
Rosie Dear @rosiedear.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I remember asking my 5th grade teacher why the Founding Fathers didn't free their slaves, and she said they didn't want to tarnish the Constitution with an ugly word like "slavery", so they committed to freeing the slaves later, and then they forgot. I'm assured this wasn't shameless propaganda. 2552
Sara💙🌈🧙♀️🐈⬛️🦇🕷💙 @saras-secret.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This isn't true at all about what happened there was no coexistence they killed the Indians for the land just like the white men usually do when they want something they will kill you to take it 000
Estella B @theafterbash.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Except the pilgrims didn't actually allow the natives to eat with them either. 031
Let's get real, it's Tara. @joyce4awhile.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Gotta say Saint Paul Public Schools did a decent job in this regard. I remember my kids being horrified to learn about the Trail of Tears. Another example of privilege living in a blue state. 140
ULTRAAAAA @zepultra.bsky.social · 29/11/2024change education, change the system yep, im making it political 031
Dean 🏳️🌈 @highfire420.bsky.social · 29/11/2024They put them in concentration camps and said belike us or die will never stop spreading the truth that was never taught 011
ayeshabarb.bsky.social @ayeshabarb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Actually, the Pilgrims had little food--mainly some grain and eels. Massasoit brought the venison. And a tenuous truce was born that the Pilgrims broke some 50 years later. 020
Arcana7609 @arcana7609.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I went to school in rural Illinois in the 70s & 80s. We were taught what happened next. We were taught the trail of tears etc. We were taught about civil rights and slavery …all of it. Some kids became progressive and others still didn’t give a shit. 🤷♀️ 021
Kaitensatsuma @kaitensatsuma.bsky.social · 29/11/20241-4 - "EVERYONE MADE HAND TURKEYS AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED EVER AGAIN" 5 - 8 - "So, we *may* have lied to you....a little" 9 - 12 - "So....we may have lied to you....a lot" College - "Funny story....." 2373
drinkbuckfast @drinkbuckfast.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Just joined blue sky and awesome to see you're over here. Your posts on Twitter were top tier. 000
The Beethoven Group @beethovengroup.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The pilgrims were starving, so we invited them to eat. Since they didn't know what a bath was, most of us got sick from unknown diseases and died. I fixed it for you. 011
Jan @madeinoz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024If we studied history more, we would be less likely to keep making the same old mistakes, commit the same old atrocities,and end the same old doom of repetition. It's a great teacher. 010
Beam Me Up Scotty Enough Is Enough @mani2021.bsky.social · 30/11/2024What happened before, during, and after? Genocide 020
instantdogma.bsky.social @instantdogma.bsky.social · 30/11/2024There were originally celebrating a massacre. 010
SaltyAF @bluecrat.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Many of us teach what happened. There was initially cooperation between the two but that it didn't set a precedent. We teach about attacks on natives the next year, about the Pequot War in 1636, which was genocide. The reason conservatives are so angry is that we teach what really happened now. 2313
🩻🪦SpookyScaryShnazzyOoo🪦🩻 @theshnazzyone.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Next chapter: The Trail of Tears 021
💪Resister Sister 💙 @resister-sister.bsky.social · 29/11/2024news.yahoo.com/news/learned...news.yahoo.comWhat you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ likely isn’t true. Here’s the real storyThe narrative that underpins the traditional Thanksgiving story is built on myths about the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag and their relationship. 050
John @thebear81.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Thank you for the information good to know and a valuable history lesson. 000
LuFae1961🐴 @betterzero.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The genocide of 95% of indigenous peoples already here…. 011
Ojodio @ojodio.bsky.social · 29/11/2024And we’ve been stealing from our Native Americans for decades. We’ve made their lives worse. I wish they could be treated better. They have a hard time voting since most reservations use post office addresses but are not allowed in voting so they make it very hard to cast a vote . Just thinking 021
biplanealpha.bsky.social @biplanealpha.bsky.social · 30/11/2024youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comKing Philip's War in Chronological Order - YouTube 010
Kiki sweet as Honey 🍯 @kikihoneydip.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The white men killed the brown people and stole their land and oppressed them… same thing that always happens 0142
Richard @richardsreflection.bsky.social · 28/11/2024In 6th grade when I was in South Dakota I reported about the French-Canadian trapper the capital is named after. I discovered in a dusty academic tome that Pierre's actual trade was trading in Indigenous women and bringing them back to Canada turning them into prostitutes. I reported this, got an F. 91666
fairfaxsue @fairfaxsue.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This boomer can confirm that this is how it was taught. 040
Tetonka Troubadour @juantannedemo-bae.bsky.social · 29/11/2024That part freaked me out, they betrayed their indian friends and put their heads on pikes in the front entrance to their village. 010
Snowcap59 @jamest65.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I have 3 in the family that are public school teachers 2 are ready to quit. It's bad people actually it's a joke. Keep um stupid and you can control them and my God it happened to 1/2 of America 0172
AZ_Blue 🚫👑☮️🕊️🇺🇦🚫🧊 @alimor999.bsky.social · 01/12/2024They say the winners get to teach the history they want. 000
btr08402.bsky.social @btr08402.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Do you think those pilgrims knew that they would one day turn on the natives ?? Did they lure them into this Friendsgiving peace dinner so they could take time to establish a whole settlement into a town and later take their land ? ? 040
allgood2024.bsky.social @allgood2024.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The “Pilgrims” did not learn a damn thing. 000
spidey44.bsky.social @spidey44.bsky.social · 29/11/2024GOP doesn’t want us to remember what happened next. 011
William Connors 🇨🇦🇮🇪🇺🇸 ☮️💙💛⚖️📚🐶🚫 DMs @will921.bsky.social · 29/11/2024On the first Thanksgiving it was too cold to have have a picnic in the northeast. 030
whopado.bsky.social @whopado.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The Native Americans, in fear for their lives, have abandoned their oceanside villages and fled to the interior. 011
Karl @karlvilca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Similar to Gaza, colonizers found land, murdered the owners and stole all their stuff. 171
Dumb Penguin Skeleton @demonpugo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Weirdly we learned what happened next in my southern schools. Trail of tears, and even a little bit about Mount Rushmore. What we didn’t get -zero information on women’s rights, any real civil rights movements , and the worst sex Ed. 040
Kwalk2024 @kwalk2024.bsky.social · 29/11/2024That’s just one of the lies teachers are forced to teach in the curriculum. Another one is the war between the states was for states’ rights, when it was about slavery. 020
Jared Buckert @jaredbuckert.bsky.social · 30/11/2024One man's dessert is another man's genocide, amirite? 0102
raincoast.bsky.social @raincoast.bsky.social · 29/11/2024What happened next? The immigrants began to kill us and steal our stuff 010
💙Samantha💙 @samanthagenx.bsky.social · 29/11/2024All this from first to at least fifth grade. Years of propaganda. 000
Eileen @eileenmont.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Is that still being taught? Must be a short lesson because It’s not what anyone thinks of when gathering and giving thanks. 000
Your mother and I found your stash. @dosomedrugsaboutit.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Oh, is it a southern thing that all of your relatives pretend they have native blood in them to mitigate the white guilt? 3331
Zackopotamus (he/him) @zackopotamus.bsky.social · 29/11/2024America retconning Thanksgiving to be about the pilgrims when Lincoln never referenced then is still weird to me. An exhausted president going, "This war is exhausting, can we be thankful for what isn't blown up or used for war?" feels way more substantial. 071
Killer Buni @killerbuni.bsky.social · 28/11/2024It's woke dei to tell you what's next, but we can skip ahead a few years to tell you about how we (white people) ended slavery*, and racism was solved! *except for the slavery we still wanted allowed. 0130
All Hope is not lost in UES @nohopelessness.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Gotta love how history is always rewritten based on who looks good or not. 0200
11lexie.bsky.social @11lexie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Not the American schools I taught in as better children’s literature about Native Americans became available. Too often posts reflect on what the writer experienced rather than what is current. 000
Kris Samsel @kris1957.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Actually, disease and death came to the indigenous. From the Europeans being filthy and unwashed. 1141
Mother Of Sentient Beings🕊️ @whytetara.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Make sure to start new traditions with your families these holidays 000
Kimmes @real-me.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Or did we just simultaneously learn what was taught at school while watching all the cowboy and indian country westerns? (: 000
Ikky009 @ikky009.bsky.social · 30/11/2024We had something like 50 years of peace between the natives. 010
Jim Ngo @ngobody.bsky.social · 29/11/2024"How did all the indigenous end up living in the middle of a desert without electricity or running water?" Schools: "How about a game of Uno everybody?" 070
elizakaylee.bsky.social @elizakaylee.bsky.social · 29/11/2024look, my schooling was far from perfect, but even in like 1st and 2nd grade I remember being taught about mistreatment of the American Indians at the hands of the European colonizers after the First Thanksgiving. I knew about smallpox infested blankets when I was 8. 3392
Cranky Old Lady @1crankyoldlady.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Our educatioin system was a joke. Someone in the sxwamp said the native Americans received blessings from us. Yup, the Trail of Tears was a real blessing, thousands died. At the beginning it was estimate 5 to 15 million Native Americans, by 1900 around 238,000 still lived. Yeah we were a blessing!? 0172
abdulwife.bsky.social @abdulwife.bsky.social · 29/11/2024media.tenor.coma man with a beard is smiling and saying `` you ain 't neva lie '' .ALT: a man with a beard is smiling and saying `` you ain 't neva lie '' . 000
LCDR @lcdailreed-71.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Not anymore. My kids’ school focused a lot on native peoples. But I definitely remember this when I was in school. 050
risorialdoll.bsky.social @risorialdoll.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Perfect example of the US education gaslighting the students. Elementary School: And the pilgrims and the natives sat around the table and ate turkey like one big family! Middle School: So remember when we said how they ate like one big family? Ehe... 061
Count De Monte-Jones @exmoorrererrrr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Same in UK re imperialism. The truth hurts, but it frees our children to act differently. If we don’t acknowledge our historic actions, how can we know who we are capable of being, nor what we are capable of achieving together, including much that we need not repeat. 0141
simonluger.bsky.social @simonluger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I teach middle school at a Title I school in New Mexico. A large number of my students are Native. I casually mentioned "We have a short week due to Thanksgiving, when we celebrate the original Americans giving food to the first illegal immigrants". My Native kids went nuts. F the regime. 41174
bluewavewilly.bsky.social @bluewavewilly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024❤️🤍💙🤎🖤💛❤️🩷💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAyv...youtube.comRush Limbaugh - THE TRUE STORY OF THANKSGIVINGYouTube video by Matt Jantzen 000
Kathy_NJ @pupeyesailordog.bsky.social · 29/11/2024That's what I was taught in NJ schools, however, my daughter was taught the truth about it when she attended elementary school in NJ. 020
John @bluegila.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Actually, not. The Wampanoag Chief reached out to gain allies v. the Narraganset, their rivals, after his people had already been devastated by European disease. Many in his tribe did not agree. The uneasy “peace” lasted about 50 years until King Phillips War in 1675. 020
Garbo @garboshow.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Not true at all. Jesus gave the savages fish or something and then all the white people clapped. 000
alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social @alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024the antidote? The Peoples History of America by Howard Zinn 260
Tom @ckreeture.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Or enslaving the Perquot. Dessert would have been nice, but no. 010
Whiskey 🥃 Leaks @theopposition.bsky.social · 29/11/2024My kids tell me about the first Thanksgiving story they learned in school. I explained the celebration was following the massacre of native Americans. I will not allow my kids to believe lies about genicide. Thanksgivings in my house are solely about being grateful for what we have 3692
meowwowwow.bsky.social @meowwowwow.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Not quite sure it happened that way... There's some mythologizing going on there. 000
Speddoc 🍎🫖💙🌴🐈🇺🇸 @speddoc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Now shall we discuss the rules for capitalizing proper nouns? 110
Anna @anna-10010.bsky.social · 30/11/2024If thanksgiving were a lesson. I wonder how they would frame it for young kids & children in school? No good deed goes unpunished? 👀🥺 020
badwillow90.bsky.social @badwillow90.bsky.social · 28/11/2024That's about right. The natives should have let them gend for themselves. 2210
talmidchacham.bsky.social @talmidchacham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Proof again that illegal immigrants will mess you up for generations. 010
Zora N @zoranhurston.bsky.social · 28/11/2024This is why so many people believe BS. They have only been taught a sanitized version of history. 191
Toni 🌱🇺🇦⚽️ #YNWA @toninparsons.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Parents: just tell your kids the truth. It’s not hard. 030
Andrew B @canukukra.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Thanksgiving didn't exist until 1864 when Lincoln declared it a holiday. There was no table with pilgrims and natives. Just didn't happen. Oh, they fed the colonists a little, even taught them how to farm. Most of those natives died of disease shortly after. 16th or 17th C Thanksgiving is a myth. 4282
Silver Boy @sailonsilverboy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024If you think that's bad, wait until Linda "Stop chasing after kids" McMahon becomes the Sec. of Ed. 000
Dawson400🥃 @dawson400.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Oh, yeah, totally! After that wholesome turkey dinner, everything was fine forever. No wars, no land stealing, no genocide just pie and eternal friendship. History’s so much easier when you end the story at dessert! 😶😑🫤 090
Anna B @mikomom.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Nothing new sadly. My son, now 39, brought home his social studies textbook in third grade. Apparently the pilgrims came here on a whim. Nothing started the exodus and it was all sunshine and rainbows. 040
No longer active @softtehcustomer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that nobody cares about for any reason other than the food 020
frances-sanders.bsky.social @frances-sanders.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Sounds like the inspiration to the song dessert 000
Lightning Duck 大 音。龙男 @lightningduck.bsky.social · 29/11/2024感恩节快乐 bsky.app/profile/ligh...Lightning Duck 大 音。龙男@lightningduck.bsky.socialLet us not forget, however it is mythologized, that Thanksgiving is the celebration of two people coming together. Across oceans, across cultures, across languages, we can be as one 000
Tutor Fred @tutorfred.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Hello guys, I'm a statistics and data science tutor and I also provide assignment help services. DM whenever you need some assistance! 000
real-smaug.bsky.social @real-smaug.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Elon musk is not even an a natural born american 020
Dylarmore (Taylor’s Version) @dylarmore.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Oh and the Christopher Columbus shit too let’s not forget that 191
itscharles @kotaku-usa.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The only people who think schools didn't teach about what happened next were too busy not paying attention and wondering why they failed 030
Jill P. @jillpolly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Our educational system has failed us for decades. It's dumbing down America. Most newspapers are written on 5th grade level english 030
Chicken Mama @chickenmama707.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Clearly you have not been in my classroom. I teach 2 social studies classes, almost all of my students are of color. And now I also tell them to listen carefully and take good notes because their kids may not get the same truth in the future. 0202
ScottLarry @scottlarry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Please read the history of the Thanksgiving we celebrate as well as others before we started. 010
NDNchick4Decency @fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social · 30/11/2024youtu.be/ZLjzUNXMbhM?... my tribe my band my familyyoutu.beDakota 38 + 2 (HQ Full Movie)YouTube video by Steven Woods 100
Lee @blueinfloriduh.bsky.social · 29/11/2024What happened next was small pox, murdering indigenous people, stealing their lands, & introducing them to alcohol😞 041
Fungus @fungi88.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Here I’ll fix it for you: American schools: okay kids let’s learn about Thanksgiving!! BOOM BOOM BOOM 💥 *kids run and hide* School overhead: attention, there is an active shooter on campus. 0232
yanquiboludo.bsky.social @yanquiboludo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I just read that the native Americans taught them to catch eels, and that’s possibly what they ate rather than turkey. My 2nd grade teacher did not tell me that. 150