3rd grade - SERIOUSLY biased education

Now that the summer break is looming ahead, my eldest son brings home all the projects from the 2010-2011 school year. Among those was an impressively illustrated folder about "Communities Long Ago" talking about groups of people that were constitutive of this country. It starts out with 'African Americans': While of course bringing on the issue of slavery, thankfully the group's characteristics are not limited to the role of victimized, but include a reference to Harriet Tubman.
Next, comes the group 'Colonial Americans', and unsurprisingly, nothing wrong can be said (obviously from the teacher's point of view) about them. I'll spare you the details.
But then, I became irate with the group of the 'Pioneers': Those brave fellows who traveled West "looking for new land" (not so much taking away land already occupied for centuries, oh no!) and UH-OH, they "suffered droughts, floods, Indian attacks, disease, and starvation to claim THEIR FREE LAND". Ahem, EXCUSE ME? so Native Americans defending their families, tribe and land, are equivalent to disease and natural disasters.
Let's turn to see what the teachers had to say about the next group, 'Native Americans': "This group had a conflict with white men over land ownership". Now THAT understatement of the year got me all riled up; they are actually trying to teach my child that the dispossession and genocide of Native Americans was a legal problem and somehow legitimate?

Every week it becomes evident that there is an urgent need as a parent to be involved in your child's education, to defy stereotypical representations of minorities and offer different perspectives to ethno-centric teaching approaches.