One quick note about J.P.’s presentation : I found it fascinating (and a little disturbing) that schools around the state don’t inform their students more about the possibility of working for a tribe–especially when a respective tribe is the biggest employer in the region.
Reflection of Progress
First things first: I began this class knowing close to nothing on American Indian affairs–contemporary or otherwise–outside a handful of movies and some grossly inadequate public school history classes. In reality, the classes served no other purpose than to gloss over a
Comments on American Indian Education: by Indians vesus for Indians
Obviously the history of the treatment of American Indians in the US is a painful reminder of the atrocities committed over the past 200+ years. This article I think does a good job of parsing out the good from the