I recall in Eighth Grade Colorado History (the "official" course) reading about what was then called "the Battle of Sand Creek," in which the valorous white people fought the dastardly Inidans and managed to kill many of them with few losses to the valorous white people. When I raised my hand and said from my reading of battles (I at the…
I recall in Eighth Grade Colorado History (the "official" course) reading about what was then called "the Battle of Sand Creek," in which the valorous white people fought the dastardly Inidans and managed to kill many of them with few losses to the valorous white people. When I raised my hand and said from my reading of battles (I at the time had a College Freshman reading level and was already reading history books for recreation) it sounded like a massacre, I was once again sent to "polish the bench" in the Assistant Principal's Office (I did a lot of bench-polishing back then, which I didn't mind at all since they didn't seem to mind me bringing a book along to read - I don't think I got a report card in 12 years of public miseducation that didn't include "does not respond to properly constituted authority.")
The son of an acquaintance, years back, wrote a well research highschool paper on the War of 1812-1814 from the perspective of the First Nations who were the true losers of the war. Canada won as we kept the Americans out; the Americans won as they freed up the mid west from British control to settlement. Only the indigenous lost. He got a failing grade but his dad was so proud of him
French colonials versus English colonials, each recruiting Indigenous allies in quest of supremacy over the revenue-producing resources of the land (e.g. beaver skins, tobacco) for profits of the corporate investors on behalf of the sovereigns of France and England.
Yes but the French wanted to work with the locals through "comptoirs" and create trade whilst the English were there to stay "en masse" and eliminate the middlemen.
Yes, the French went for assimilate, the English more for annihilate, or at least for apartheid. A coureur des bois ("runner of the woods") was a French-Canadian trapper and/or trader with First Nations peoples. Some married Indigenous women and made Métis families and communities in the outback. So the practices vis-à-vis the middlewomen were very different, though Métis were subjected to racist persecution. Oh right, the English won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and turned New France into Canada!
I recall in Eighth Grade Colorado History (the "official" course) reading about what was then called "the Battle of Sand Creek," in which the valorous white people fought the dastardly Inidans and managed to kill many of them with few losses to the valorous white people. When I raised my hand and said from my reading of battles (I at the time had a College Freshman reading level and was already reading history books for recreation) it sounded like a massacre, I was once again sent to "polish the bench" in the Assistant Principal's Office (I did a lot of bench-polishing back then, which I didn't mind at all since they didn't seem to mind me bringing a book along to read - I don't think I got a report card in 12 years of public miseducation that didn't include "does not respond to properly constituted authority.")
The son of an acquaintance, years back, wrote a well research highschool paper on the War of 1812-1814 from the perspective of the First Nations who were the true losers of the war. Canada won as we kept the Americans out; the Americans won as they freed up the mid west from British control to settlement. Only the indigenous lost. He got a failing grade but his dad was so proud of him
Thanks Allen. Hingston from Kingston, by any chance?
"The French and Indian War," or, as it's called in Canada, The British and Indian War.
French colonials versus English colonials, each recruiting Indigenous allies in quest of supremacy over the revenue-producing resources of the land (e.g. beaver skins, tobacco) for profits of the corporate investors on behalf of the sovereigns of France and England.
Yes but the French wanted to work with the locals through "comptoirs" and create trade whilst the English were there to stay "en masse" and eliminate the middlemen.
Yes, the French went for assimilate, the English more for annihilate, or at least for apartheid. A coureur des bois ("runner of the woods") was a French-Canadian trapper and/or trader with First Nations peoples. Some married Indigenous women and made Métis families and communities in the outback. So the practices vis-à-vis the middlewomen were very different, though Métis were subjected to racist persecution. Oh right, the English won the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and turned New France into Canada!
The French and Indian war was 50 years earlier than the War of 1812-1814
Indeed, but does the War of 1812 have another name in Canada? If so, I'd highlight that contrasting viewpoint too.
No. That is how it is known in Canada. Is it the same in USA?
From this era of and up to, read: Tecumseh, A Sorrow in My Heart -Alan Eckert
Good on his dad!
The Sand Creek Massacre should be taught in every history curriculum, (as should the Ludlow Massacre).
The good news is, Colorado History books in school now teach it as the Sand Creek Massacre and the site is listed as such with explanatory material.
Good show, Daria. Thousands of readers will now scramble to look up "Ludlow Massacre," one of the worst incidents in America's labor wars.
And here you are today, TC, for which I am seriously grateful. Really!
Somehow I am not surprised....
That is intended as a compliment of the highest order.
Signed, "who never lives up to her potential"
Ditto! Speakers of truth to authority are generally frowned upon.
That sounds like a great opening scene ... very engaging.
Good for you!
I Love you TC!!!! I had a Good chuckle reading your last sentence🤣I NEEDED that❣
And oh how polished those benches were!