I am shocked to read an account of Thanksgiving that amounts to racial puritanism. I clicked on the title article expecting to read a typical story that celebrated the early relationship between Native Americans and the first European colonists as a mutually supportive feast. Such stories tend to neglect the impact on Native American communities, the complex historical relationships between different Native nations and between them and European colonists. But this story does not acknowledge the existence of peoples and nations long established on this continent. Please retract this white-washed history and replace it with a story that has academic integrity and respects peoples whose existence it denies.
This completely erases Native American people from the history of the US and the genocide that white Christians brought upon them. It is absolutely shameful that this was ever posted. Where is Tommie Media’s integrity?
This article is, quite frankly, an insult to the Native American student body at St. Thomas. The mythology behind Thanksgiving is problematic in itself, but this white-washing of the history is even worse. What also bothers me is that this article comes during Native American Heritage month, which seems to have been completely ignored by Tommie Media. This blatant disregard for an entire group of people is unacceptable.
As an allumn of UST I am really disappointed to see this. I understand that infographics take time to make and the creator probably speant a good deal of time on this, but this is a university. It is a place of higher education. History should represented throughly and accurately. This is not a preschool. Students should not be given a pleasant sugar coated view of what happened to make the school newsletter look nice.
I am shocked to read an account of Thanksgiving that amounts to racial puritanism. I clicked on the title article expecting to read a typical story that celebrated the early relationship between Native Americans and the first European colonists as a mutually supportive feast. Such stories tend to neglect the impact on Native American communities, the complex historical relationships between different Native nations and between them and European colonists. But this story does not acknowledge the existence of peoples and nations long established on this continent. Please retract this white-washed history and replace it with a story that has academic integrity and respects peoples whose existence it denies.
This completely erases Native American people from the history of the US and the genocide that white Christians brought upon them. It is absolutely shameful that this was ever posted. Where is Tommie Media’s integrity?
This article is, quite frankly, an insult to the Native American student body at St. Thomas. The mythology behind Thanksgiving is problematic in itself, but this white-washing of the history is even worse. What also bothers me is that this article comes during Native American Heritage month, which seems to have been completely ignored by Tommie Media. This blatant disregard for an entire group of people is unacceptable.
As an allumn of UST I am really disappointed to see this. I understand that infographics take time to make and the creator probably speant a good deal of time on this, but this is a university. It is a place of higher education. History should represented throughly and accurately. This is not a preschool. Students should not be given a pleasant sugar coated view of what happened to make the school newsletter look nice.