What to Do If Your Kid's School Does A Sh*t Job Teaching Thanksgiving

Yes, addressing a violent history with young minds needs to be proceeded with caution. However, it's important to remember that abstaining from the truth entirely is essentially lying. Getting educational literature to be more reflective of American Indian perspectives will take time, and until that happens it's part of our job as parents to fill in the gaps. It's not revisionist history, and we're not erasing the hard existence of early European settlers by addressing the reality that American Indians had to endure. By giving our children a more well-rounded perspective, even at a young age, we are teaching them that other voices and histories are equally valid.