Writer. I have an unhealthy obession with dead celebrities & a pretty normal obession with the living ones. Pansexual Black Native. she/her pronouns
May 5, 2018 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I really wanna talk about this. Native American kids and their tendencies to keep quiet. (A thread on Native American history) cbsnews.com/amp/news/color…
Lets go back a ways to the 1800s. In 1860 the Bureau of Indian Affairs created this thing called an Indian Boarding school. The idea was to take a Native child & put them in boarding schools so they can learn to read, write, learn math, etc. The plan was to assimilate the child.