(Trice Edney Wire) – Your traditions and place in the American storyline are not real or valid. The history of your people is fiction.
That is the message a Houston, Texas suburb is sending to Native American kids. Just three days after Indigenous People’s Day, October 17 was the deadline to move the book Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs to the “Fiction” section in Montgomery County’s public libraries. The problem is the book is not fiction.
My white ancestors on my dad’s side of the family arrived at the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts 400 years ago this year. When they arrived, the Wampanoag people had already been there for 12,000 years…