the_opoponax

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What was going to tribal schools like? How was it different from, or similar to, "typical" public schools?

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Is there really an Indigenous comics collection called Moonshot?

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Moonshot is a really cool name for something. Just saying.

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That's really cool!

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Yeah, as someone who went to a mix of public and parochial schools, we got pretty much nothing. And when Native Americans were mentioned at all, it was in history class. On the one hand, Louisiana requires 8th graders to have a full year of Louisiana History, and at least at my school we talked a lot about Louisiana Native tribes. My hometown is also named after one of those tribes, and a lot of members still live around there. So maybe that had an impact? But, again, for like a month in the beginning of the year before all the white colonizers show up and dominate everything for the rest of the class. And never in a contemporary context. Like it was never mentioned that there are still members of the Houmas tribe living in our town, being normal people right down the street.

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But I already have a junk mail envelope with joke ideas written in purple sharpie. I was told that was all I needed for tonight's meeting.