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- cross-posted to:
- indigenous@hexbear.net
- news@hexbear.net
The reservation schools might be “officially” shut down, but the colonizers keep showing how they think of Natives as less than human.
The reservation schools might be “officially” shut down, but the colonizers keep showing how they think of Natives as less than human.
What the actual hell?? I saw this article earlier and thought it was like… a historical thing that happened. Not LAST YEAR. What the fuck
EDIT: this was in New York. Everyone loves to act like New England is so progressive but what the fuck is this?? Also - the staff members who built the fucking boxes have not been fired. Those motherfuckers should never be allowed to work with children again.
EDIT 2: Here is a link to their Board of Education and the corresponding email address.
It took until 2025 for Oklahoma to pass legislation prohibiting teachers from hitting kids with disabilities. Still allowed to hit other children, they just finally came around to the idea that you can’t paddle the autism out of a kid.
jesus
Yeah, but you expect it from Oklahoma. New York State is just a little surprising.
Re: your edit #1, this is far upstate NY, near the Canadian town of Cornwall. I’ve visited a bit west of there, in Jefferson County, New York (south of Gananoque, Ontario) and by golly it was chockful of MAGA signs. NY is more than the NYC, Albany and Buffalo metro areas, but since most people live there, that’s what tends to dictate state policy. Despicable behaviour like that in the article towards Indigenous residents tends to happen at the fringes, unfortunately making it easy to miss from afar.