A-level textbook withdrawn over ‘inappropriate’ Native American question

USA 1865-1975: the Making of a Superpower asked whether treatment of Native Americans had been exaggerated

An A-level textbook has been withdrawn after a youth worker raised the alarm about an “inappropriate” question asking whether the treatment of Native Americans had been exaggerated.

Hannah Wilkinson tweeted her horror about the extract of the AQA/Hodder textbook, USA 1865-1975: the Making of a Superpower, saying: “In what world is this an acceptable question/exercise to ask students to complete on the history of Native Americans in late 1800s US?”

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