As part of her lessons about Thanksgiving, Susannah Remillard, a language arts teacher in East Harwich, Massachusetts, asks her students to write poems from the Pilgrim and Wampanoag points of view.
“We carry this Colonial view of how we teach, and now we have a moment to step outside that and think about whether that is harmful for kids, and if there isn’t a better way,” Remillard said in a story by Associated Press writer Collin Binkley. “I think we are at a point where people are now ready to listen.”
Binkley’s story also includes comments from Ed Schupman of Native Knowledge 360°, the National Museum of the American Indian’s national education initiative.