“We Shall Have to Make Room for Custer”: The Creation & Persistence of Anti-Native Narratives in Secondary US History Textbooks

In the settler colonial United States, conventional U.S. history education remains a central obstacle to decolonization, and conciliation.2 U.S. history curriculum has long used narratives of the “Indian wars” to recast the entire American experience as a frontier narrative. Since the 1870s and desp