Bette Ammon
Coeur d’Alene Public Library
702 E. Front Ave
Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814

Mrs. Ammon,

On a recent trip with my family to the Coeur d’Alene Library I took notice of the festive holiday kiosk in the children’s section of the library. However in enjoying the vivid array of color, I was shocked and disappointed when my family and I came to the display on Thanksgiving. While the display was full of fall colors and traditional harvest related items, the portrayal of the Pilgrim’s race is in obvious error.

Even by the most liberal accounts of the Puritan Thanksgiving, of which our holiday is based off of, none suggest anything other than the Pilgrims were European in their lineage. While there is a push by certain fringe groups to rewrite our American history, Thanksgiving is fortunately one part of our proud history that few have bothered to attempt to twist. The reason for this is volume of information pertaining to the subject, eyewitness accounts and the tradition surrounding this special holiday.

As purveyors of information and as a resource center for educators, it should be understood that all of the library’s displays should be historically accurate. Therefore I am formally requesting that the errant pilgrims replaced with historically accurate recipients of the first Thanksgiving meal (correct Pilgrims, Indians and sailors). Revisionist history should not be an undertaking of any public library.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this important matter. My family and I look forward to visiting the library again and seeing historically accurate displays.

Sincerely,
Justin Cottrell.
Kootenai Constitution Party

As revisionist history runs rampant in our country, it is vital that we strike back with every opportunity. It is unfortunate that the Coeur d’Alene Library felt the need to include negro pilgrim dolls in the Thanksgiving Day decorations in a false sense of political correctness. It brings a quote to mind.

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster… The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” – Milan Kundera

We must protect our history. Join us by calling or emailing the library director on this matter. Thank you, patriots.