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the Indian child carries a whole baggage car, all of impediments to class every day of his school life. If he has a California Indian, he has been reared on the injustices of my own people. He remembers and knows well the massacres, destruction of language and culture.

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And above all, he knows with every part of him that this state was hiss on that for the land forcibly taken away from him. He has been awarded the in famous, some 47 cents an acre. He is a stranger in his own land on outcast. For

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once, he was lord of all on Onlooker, for he once controlled his own destiny. If he has an engine of out of state, we sue Navajo, Cipolla or whatever he knows The terrible history of injustice practiced against his own people. Mhm. Now we Indians air not

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just one more complaining bleeding minority way are the proud and only true natives of this land. Those this must be considered above all in discussing any aspect of Indian affairs in our contact with the choice we have always on without fail asked for one thing, we

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wanted education. You can examine any treaty any negotiations with the American whites. The first condition, specifically as for by the Indian tribes, was far education. What we got was third rate left handed, meager, miserly, um, unqualified training with the greatest expenditure of federal funds on the

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least amount of actual education for the engine himself. I think that as long as we continue that kind of practice of where, even from a positive point of view, that not only the criticism that falls on the shoulders of Indian Children, but the fact that they

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learned nothing about their own history and about their own culture way were in Idaho the other day we were asking in the school, which had 80% Indian Children, and I was asking the superintendent of schools there about whether they taught anything about Indian history or Indian

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culture. And and it was a very famous tribe shown on uh, which has considerable history. And he said, Well, there isn't any history to this tribe, and of course, that has a tremendous effect. I think, on the Children eso, I said. I asked if there was

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any books in the library where all these Children could go and read about Indian history, and he said yes. And then we went in a library and turned out there was only one book, and the book was entitled Captive of the Delaware's on. Uh, so it

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showed a white child being scalped by an Indian. You open e think that's the kind of problem. It seems to me that perhaps for older people are more sophisticated people. Uh, perhaps it's you and having had to deal with that kind of a problem for your

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whole lives, maybe you could accept it For a child who's seven or 89 10, 11 or 12 years of age, it seems to me an almost impossible burden.