DOIN' IT RIGHT

Nov 20, 2009 18:06

The First Thanksgiving, reenacted. Properly. With blankets covered in smallpox and small children dressed as Indians saying, "We got hosed ( Read more... )

sophia, the first thanksgiving

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carve037 November 21 2009, 04:52:48 UTC
YES. THIS VIDEO.

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samtabsav November 21 2009, 05:29:49 UTC
I LOVE THIS.

They don't still teach kids the fluffy bullshit version, do they?

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carve037 November 21 2009, 05:53:42 UTC
I remember my school making a distinct effort not to, but it was an out and out hippie elementary school. And as easy as it was, and is, to make fun of it for that, I think I got a lot of my moral compass there.

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scatteredsleep November 21 2009, 20:35:41 UTC
I am so jealous of your elementary school experience. Every time you talk about it I get more and more jealous. What school was it, again? Was it here?

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carve037 November 22 2009, 05:10:41 UTC
Yeah, Expo Elementary in St. Paul. But again, it turned into kind of a shithole after the original teaching crowd moved on and the "at risk youth" moved in.

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