When I become a teacher, because I really have no other choice right now, I intend to go back to my roots in Oklahoma and teach at an Indian school, fighting for better education for them and my future children. It is not their fault that they were born Native. As a born Native child, if the blood percentage is enough, they are automatically carded. This is basically the government’s way of “recognizing” who is really Native and who is not. This is by no means a GOOD thing. In all, as we have the lowest …show more content…
I understand that there was plenty of racism and discrimination against this particular group of people, but there has been plenty of racism and discrimination against other groups of people that we no longer even teach about in schools. What about the treatment of Asian Americans throughout American history, or Irish Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans? Interesting fact that I learned from my younger brother and not my history book is that he was taught all about certain parts of history, but wasn’t even aware as to what the Trail of Tears even was – he didn’t even know about the mass genocide of his own