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Originally Posted by DontRunMeOver
This question's for the US contingent. How much did the history of Native Americans feature in your history curriculum at school. I studied it for maybe 2 weeks, do they go into more detail in the US and what aspects did they cover?
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Yes we cover it for quite some time. Also, Thanksgiving isn't about the success of the pilgrims, but mainly about the cooperation of the Indians and the pilgrims at that time. The "genocide" (if you want to call it that, I guess you could) started at a later time, mainly the trail of tears, etc, which happened during Johnson's presidency (I'm pretty sure). During colonial times, while some areas didn't get along with the Indians, specifically the south, areas like Pennsylvania fared quite well with the Indians, even buying land from them instead of just taking it as most did.