• lugal@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    the first batch of Europeans weren't exactly welcomed either.

    Is that so? Don't you Americans even have a holiday celebrating that the natives gave you food and stuff?

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Americans have a holiday called Labor Day where service workers still have to work. I wouldn't read much into it.

      • lugal@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        What I meant is that it's an important historical event that the first settlers were welcomed. Not that this says anything about respect towards modern day first nations.

        • phillaholic@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Much of what is taught about that historical event didn’t really happen, or was conflated together. No real evidence to suggest it’s proof of the settlers being welcomed any more than tolerance of a technologically superior group of people.