Longtime cultural educator Hope Flanagan (Seneca, Turtle Clan) says that, in teaching the true history of a holiday that represented the beginning of colonization for the Indigenous People of ...
More U.S. schools are rethinking traditional Thanksgiving lessons that focus on the English settlers but teach little about Native Americans. They are updating lessons to include more about the ...
GLENOLDEN — English Language Learners and their parents will be introduced to the tradition of Thanksgiving at the Upper Darby School District Walter M. Senkow Elementary School on Nov. 16 at the ...
The meaning behind Thanksgiving Day runs deeper than a simple meal, offering a moment to reflect on history, community, and mutual support. Understanding the origin, the facts, and the lessons ...
BOSTON (AP) — A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That's yesterday's Thanksgiving story. Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson ...
BOSTON — A friendly feast shared by the plucky Pilgrims and their native neighbors? That’s yesterday’s Thanksgiving story. Students in many U.S. schools are now learning a more complex lesson that ...
Instead of making Pilgrim hats, students are hearing what scholars call “hard history” — the more shameful aspects of the past. Susannah Remillard teaches her sixth-grade students at Cape Cod ...