Anti Racist Thanksgiving book
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Anonymous
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Any ideas for a book on the origin of Thanksgiving that doesnt contain problematic images/words/themes of the native Americans? (Or of the Pilgrims, I guess, but that seems to be less pervasive.)
Thanks! |
Anonymous
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Maybe Squanto's Journey? It's by Joseph Bruchac, who is indigenous but not Wampanoag. He cites his Wampanoag sources in the back.
Also for indigenous peoples, while We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga isn't exactly about the origins of Thanksgiving, it does explain how the Cherokee interwove gratitude throughout their year. |
Anonymous
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What age? Just got this for my 9-year-old who loves history.
https://katemessner.com/history-smashers-mayflower/ |
Anonymous
| Why? Its history. You are going to pretend it didn't happen? |
Anonymous
+1 Exactly. Why celebrate Thanksgiving at all then? |
Anonymous
There’s a difference between trying to present everybody involved in history as accurately as possible and ignoring history. -not an ant-racist, just someone who values different perspectives, including past ones |
Anonymous
Good grief. Just avoid mentioning it all together at that rate. |
Anonymous
I hate to break it to you, but some of the things you learned in elementary school were not true. 
OP, this is more than you need but I have heard good things about this unit from Match Fishtank. You might need to create a log in to access everything, IDK, but there is a book list you could look at. https://www.matchfishtank.org/curriculum/ela/3rd-grade/rediscovering-thanksgiving/ If this doesn't meet your needs, try to join a secular homeschool group and ask there. As soon as the election is over it will undoubtedly be a hot topic. |
Anonymous
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These articles are a little bit out of date, but here are some recommended Thanksgiving titles from Native American authors. Both sites also have loads of other book recommendations if you just want good Native American kids' lit (or want to know how to tell good from bad Native American kids' lit.)
http://oyate.org/index.php/resources/43-resources/thanksgiving https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2007/11/good-books-about-thanksgiving.html |
Anonymous
| Anti-racism = racism. You r just racist against another group. |
Anonymous
Just came on here to suggest this blog. Dr. Debbie Reese is amazing and very well respected. I turn to her blog frequently. |
Anonymous
| Here's a suggestion: stop brainwashing your kids. This ridiculous intersectional anti-racist drivel might make you feel virtuous but all it does is make people think more about race--which is the last thing we need. |
Anonymous
One of the PPs here, and I'd actually sort of disagree with the bolded. There is as much fake stuff written about the Separatists/other colonists whom we now call Pilgrims as of the American Indians. We just don't consider it problematic that we misrepresent them regularly (as another PP mentioned, most of what you learned in elementary school about Thanksgiving was fake). To really get at their motives and stuff, you have to get into Puritan theology, which has been grossly misrepresented in American culture since Nathaniel the era of Nathaniel Hawthorne. I'm NOT saying it's as bad as what literature has done to the American Indians, but the everyone-in-tall-black-hats who came here for individual self-expression in religion narrative isn't doing readers any favors either, because it's just not true. |
Anonymous
NP. Can you explain? |