Zinni-zombification

~ Clarissa

This is the result of the Howard Zinnification (or Zinni-zombification) of secondary education:

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  1. It’s not like it’s difficult to dispel that myth. My 9yo is, right now, reading Charles Eastman’s memoir: “Indian Boyhood”. Dang near every chapter has people dying violently due to intertribal warfare or just the culture of the tribe. Kill the enemy in his camp, get attacked in retribution. Throw your cousin down a ravine for a protocol violation, all in a day’s work.

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    1. …and for the downvoter: The book is public domain, you can read it yourself on gutenberg, and Charles Eastman was a fascinating and remarkable man. I highly recommend it!

      But, you know, if you’re not interested in reading Native Americans’ accounts of their own lives, in their own words, there’s no help for you. At our house, when we teach history, we try to let the people who lived it speak for themselves.

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        1. ” condescending and pitying “the minorities””

          A certain type of person (those who ‘take a knee’ for George Floyd or ‘stand up’ for like a recent post of yours) deeply envy the oppression they like to think that minorities face every second of every day.

          They get off on it and want in on the action…

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  2. “think Native American tribes lived in peace and harmony”

    Yikes! It’s possible to have quite a bit of respect for some Native American cultures while realizing they were not peaceful flower children….

    One thing that people forget is they were extremely not uniform in degree of socio-political development. Many groups were still foraging bands with no real social organization beyond the family and others were close to multi-ethnic proto-states with someting approaching governments and legal codes…. (like the Creek Confederacy).

    Just that fact alone guarantees conflict between different levels of material well-being as well as similar groups competing for the same resources.

    And you get things like the Pacific Northwest cultural area where the problem was… too many resources and the constant threat of over-population and so they acted like good stewards of the environment and worked out ways of keeping their population in check (Potlach rituals could be incredibly violent and often involved killing large numbers of people….).

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