I was living in Lawrence KS when Haskell made the transition from a junior college to a university. One contributing factor to its "low rankings" may be it initially only offered 4 year degrees in a few education and agricultural programs. The rankings favor schools with robust arts and sciences programs, and agricultural sciences are sometimes treated unfairly as a second class science.
My mom was born on the Pine Ridge reservation in the 50s. Ok, she's my step mother but in reality she is my MOTHER and she kept me even after the divorce... So did her whole family, even though I was just this little white kid they kept me and loved me. I'm beyond proud to say my mother and sisters and aunties and uncle are Oglala Sioux and that these are the humans that taught me how to be a human. Europeans not only committed a tragedy against all native nations but also against themselves - just imagine what kind of world we could be living in had these cultures been learned, understood, allowed to flourish and become part and parcel of today's culture...
Great story... Also, how did you get the hyperlink search for Oglala Sioux? It would make my posts so much shorter if people could just search the words I type. Lastly, your words are so true. The Latin alphabet is pretty universal only because Rome conquered the future colonists of the world. The Arabic numeric system is so universal because money good and Roman number system was bad... And Arabs/greater Muslim community controlled the trade route that linked Western Europe to Eastern Asia... Again money good. How much better would the world be if we simply allowed the best ideas to dominate instead of the ideas of the people with the greatest appetite for violence and/or money.
This is a very simple situation where the only thing to do is to calm down and be normal. For today, the only education we need is to learn that when people say "Americans are not happy about their government", that The Act Of Saying That is a war deterrent (on the scale of a nuclear-capable ICBM which can pass through any defense system). As long as Native Americans stop "believing" that they're the only ones with any culture/tradition/history/etc, then all of the people who have been misinformed will go after the source of the misinformation (which is a group of people in the USA), unless they prevent me from continuing to inform you about heuristic techniques. I mean, to be honest, kids are monitored for these things everywhere. However, we simply need to develop some refinement in the way that we judge kids [by judging the way in which each child is rebellious]. This is the first step toward allowing communities to exist where one's success correlates more directly with how severely one abuses his or her children than any other factor. Just because some 1st-generation immigrants who've arrived in the US are abusing their kids and getting away with it doesn't mean that this is specific to any country. This is why, if for no other reason, the families who arrived in America on the first "waves" of immigration from "The Old World" are designated with merit around the world: because the newer immigrants are worse (and if they WEREN'T WORSE, then they would be experiencing RAPID "upward mobility", a side effect of which is Getting VERY WEALTHY VERY QUICKLY). In the past, things were better: good people could walk around saying, "Some DO Say the existence of a 'middle class' is itself a meritable ideal for one to have". Nowadays, it's a little rougher because we are CHOOSING families based on their past. That's all. Don't say you weren't warned. Merely Being Disciplined By Members Of "One's Own Ethnicity" (as "any youth" is) DOESN'T PROVIDE ANY CLUES about ANY HISTORY/narrative in which ANY "culture" or group is doing ANYTHING.
Years ago, I worked with AMAZING Haskell University students on sustainable community development projects cross-culturally in Mexico. Lifelong friends who have helped me uncover my Indigenous Mexican roots allowed my native pride to flourish further.
To see different people from åfröcentrist to eurocentrist to even Chinese making theories to claim the people had influences on Olmecs/and or were the Olmec people - shows really how great the people were/are.
Current Haskell Indian nations university student here..... I love the way they included the history of a boarding school survivor. we have generations and generations of families that have came from this school, parents even meeting here.
Woof. I'm going to have to thank my parents for raising me in college-town hippy communities where indigenous people and minorities regularly celebrate their cultures, like the Native Nations Festival, Celtic Festival, Nikkei Matsuri, and the First Peoples Festival.
I feel like you could solve so many problems by paying modern Native Americans to make art pieces using traditional techniques for museums and then properly labeling them as such and giving credit to the individual who made each piece as well as that person's heritage. Because then people would still have a way of seeing this important part of American culture, but it would be grounded in the here and now. It would literally say, "We're still here" to anyone who views it. Furthermore, it wouldn't be stolen. It would be bought from the people who made it and they would get to choose the content and could make it something that they are comfortable sharing with people rather than something sacred or private. I'm not Native American, but I absolutely support their artifacts being repatriated. At the same time, I think it would be sad if the main way your average white American interacted with Native American culture was through whitewashed textbooks. We should put the ability to share their history and their culture in the hands of the people who created it.
Burke Museum in Seattle does this to a certain extent. Their exhibition of Native American culture prominently features modern Native American artwork done with traditional techniques and even showcases the history of what the modern artwork replaced. They even have a cafe featuring Native American inspired cuisine.
That would cause a disruption in a big way. We can't just "up and say that". I mean, sure, it's A COHERENT MESSAGE, but it's a little much. You're trying to just give a bunch of money to some weirdos who aren't really part of their community, rather than to try to "break the ice" with THEM. You're just giving oppportunistic weirdos a chance to become overpowered and put pressure DIRECTLY on Their Way Of Life. I don't know if I really "LIKE" them THAT MUCH, but you're clearly beefing with them Way More than me. This is what I told them: This is a very simple situation where the only thing to do is to calm down and be normal. For today, the only education we need is to learn that when people say "Americans are not happy about their government", that The Act Of Saying That is a war deterrent (on the scale of a nuclear-capable ICBM which can pass through any defense system). As long as Native Americans stop "believing" that they're the only ones with any culture/tradition/history/etc, then all of the people who have been misinformed will go after the source of the misinformation (which is a group of people in the USA), unless they prevent me from continuing to inform you about heuristic techniques. I mean, to be honest, kids are monitored for these things everywhere. However, we simply need to develop some refinement in the way that we judge kids [by judging the way in which each child is rebellious]. This is the first step toward allowing communities to exist where one's success correlates more directly with how severely one abuses his or her children than any other factor. Just because some 1st-generation immigrants who've arrived in the US are abusing their kids and getting away with it doesn't mean that this is specific to any country. This is why, if for no other reason, the families who arrived in America on the first "waves" of immigration from "The Old World" are designated with merit around the world: because the newer immigrants are worse (and if they WEREN'T WORSE, then they would be experiencing RAPID "upward mobility", a side effect of which is Getting VERY WEALTHY VERY QUICKLY). In the past, things were better: good people could walk around saying, "Some DO Say the existence of a 'middle class' is itself a meritable ideal for one to have". Nowadays, it's a little rougher because we are CHOOSING families based on their past. That's all. Don't say you weren't warned. Merely Being Disciplined By Members Of "One's Own Ethnicity" (as "any youth" is) DOESN'T PROVIDE ANY CLUES about ANY HISTORY/narrative in which ANY "culture" or group is doing ANYTHING.
Haskell Indian Nations University students have a great program to take some other courses offer at neighboring Kansas University in Lawrence. And KU students also have opportunity to take courses at Haskell that aren't offered at KU.
Watching with tears in my eyes. My grandma went to one of the old style boarding schools. It was so terrible for her that I can’t even express it coherently. Thanks for shedding a light on this.
@@lowwastehighmelaninsorry but whats gross about expressing curiosity about this? Curiosity is a good thing. More people need to be curious about the crimes that the United States helped commit. Thats what it takes to be educated about these topics especially when they arent widely taught
thank you @@ktk44man for encouraging me to express curiosity, I want to help uplift Indigenous people's causes by learning from Indigenous people. How odd that wanting to learn more about Indigenous issues is considered gross by some people.
@@alissalatour7332they can do something about it! That’s why they made the episodes in the first place. To educate. To raise awareness. To make change now. Because there’s a lot that needs to be changed. It’s the same with learning about the holocaust. We cannot erase this history. We need to learn about why the nazis killed the disabled, Jews, transgender, and more. Should they not allow people to go to Auschwitz anymore? The holocaust is gross, but we should learn about it. Same with the genocide of native Americans.
My family went to some of the boarding schools in Wisconsin: Hayward Indian Boarding School (Lac Courte Oreilles), St. Mary's Indian Boarding School (Bad River), and Lac du Flambeau Government Boarding School. Two of them closed after the Great Depression, but the latter, Lac du Flambeau, at least rebranded with government funding from the BIA in 1975 for cultural and language restoration (I even remember going to my first Ojibwe language classes out there with the AODA program as a young one.) Now, I teach at one of the handful of Indigenous Alternative Education schools in the Nation, started by AIM, making sure the language is taught to our young ones.
I'm so glad you posted this video. A lot of us have heard of the boarding schools but we might not know all the details, or the larger context. Content like this probably helps more than you know.
I am not native american. I support the return of artifacts and the dead that are being paraded about as trophies as if they are from a long dead burried peoples back to where those people still live or whatever they wish done. I wouldl ike some exhibits to remain, or t obe created to educate but at the same time you are correct in that there is this perception and portrayal that native peoples are culturally if not ethnically... dead. 'We' (the US government) broke faith and treaty wit hthe native peoples time and time again. There needs to be a redress. This isn't 'Hey everyone who is on paper native american gets money' that is an empty gesture that does nothing but give conservitives a club to beat people with. There needs to be systimic change so that natives are given a fair seat at the table so their voice is heard where and how it matters most. We've taken too much already, and even giving (what i consider an impossibility given the pushback) full voting rights, or enlarging and assisting in making the reservations more.... None of that will undo what has been done, but at this point doing more than just empty hand wringing would be nice. "We The People' .... Well, you guys were here first. You are part of that 'We' and the rest of us should acknowledge that.
My dad’s parents and my mom’s grandmother all went to boarding schools. I saw the different ways in which the schools affected the generations to come. My dad ended up being a very, very abusive and traumatized person, while my mom grew up with the love of her culture. I still live with the trauma of what happened to my VERY close relatives. I’m 21 and this horrific part of Indigenous history STILL effect generations and still might effect the next generations to come. It’s crazy the amount of people I meet that still have NO CLUE the atrocities our ancestors went through and most of us go through today. Yakoke to Dr. Klein for sharing her story and sharing her wisdom and warmth
Most Natives live in remote areas in places most Americans don't care about. Same with Black Appalachian they're actually a lot of them and they are essential to the development of Appalachian culture particularly linguistic but people think everyone in Appalachia is white
@@anactualtree652 that's so sad to hear as someone with Cayuga ancestry. I grew up in Eastern WA on Yakama land and have never been to NY sadly, so idk how it is over there right now...
100% believable! I used to work for Garmin and I talked to a woman from New York. She asked if we were in Texas. I said that we were in Kansas. She said "Well isn't Kansas in Texas?" @@anactualtree652
Still ongoing for mental health struggling adolescents. All the locations, whether the specific previous tribal school or not, they massively exist. For me- cedar city, Ut. Unable to speak or learn languages Little schooling Values based from LDS church We learned to clean forcible land & ranch work. After so long we were “Love” phase where we were now deserving of love
Went to the Autry Museum's exhibit on Sherman Indian School a few months ago. It was created in conjunction with the current school administration and it's graduates and it's amazingly informative (I believe it'll be there until May if anyone coming to LA wants to check it out)
While living in Lawrence KS, I greatly enjoyed the big powwow and art fair every August. It showcased amazing dancers, music, and arts. It shared native talents with the community.
I worked with Sherman Indian High School in Southern California last semester as an intern. Really eye opening experience in a place with an obviously very complicated history. I loved the students there!
I have gone to a museum that has Native American artifacts displayed (I assume proudly) by the tribe on their land. Puget Sound area I think, but don't quote me on that. It was absolutely fascinating to learn about their past. It was also very refreshing and heartbreaking to learn how they have been treated throughout colonization and moder times. I went to the history museum in New York and just couldn't see it as anything besides a monument to colonialism and greed and discrimination. Yes, I want to learn about Native Americans and their culture but I want to learn it from them, on their terms. Not from a society that has literally tried to make them go extinct.
I was thinking about Sherman also. I was hoping this video would explain how boarding schools went from bad to good. It didn't. He just said Haskell was bad and now it's good. Somewhere along the line, people made some choices to change. That's where the important history lies, where we make choices to change for the better.
@tomwoods3026 I was hoping for an explanation of when they changed bc I heard from others how they were bad, but surprised, in the 20ish years, natives go to them voluntary now.
I used to know a Haskell TA, when I was a student at the University of Kansas. I was glad to see them attain their goal of becoming a 4 year college. He’s probably a professor by now.
Thankyou for this. I'm in Australia, and I sense echoes in the story of our First Nation Peoples, to those of the Americas. I wish we had a similar resource as you've made for Australia's First People's culture, and the impact of white colonisers, historical and ongoing.
Back in 89-91 when I was goin to broken arrow and south Jr high (EVEN THO Haskellis literally right behind broken arrow school) a fellow classmate who lived next door to me all his LIFE thought KU was the ONLY college in Lawrence 😂 (i lived so close on Louisiana and 25th street)🤷🏽♀️
Hey I went to college on Lawrence! It always blew my mind how little intermingling there was between Haskell and KU students, I met more Haskell students through Lawrence townies than I ever did hanging out with KU classmates. Haskell has a better connection to the Lawrence community than KU though, they host art festivals and sponsor several community events throughout the year. Stuff directed to local families and children. It's a nice campus too, I used to drive delivery to it.
This makes sense why my great grandfather left my great grandmother when she was pregnant with my grandfather. It was the 50s he didn’t want him treated that way 😢
iz got 4 years attended BHSC in the 79;s for native studies minor, social sciences major not completed. mom taught Lakota Oral lititure and ended with phd education. set up curriculums for school districts. she helped get the old women stories into text from tape. i 2 semester of Lakota language, 1 course in minor just on Indian Education history. books by authors helped in studes used.ie Eredoes.
Epigenetics involves how the DNA of our cells gets folded. If its folded up it is not ‘being used’ where as if it is unfolded your cell can access it easily. The way DNA is folded dictates which genes can be used, how the cell works. This DNA folding is copied during cell duplication and even from parent to child. Since stress, trauma, has been shown to change the epigenetics of your body, your cells. There are studies theorising how in this way parents pass on their endured stress and the effect it causes on them, onto their children.
Thank you for sharing your story, Ramona Klein! And, thank you Tai Leclaire for putting this together. I can't imagine reliving these memories, but I truly learn so much and I truly appreciate both of you sharing your knowledge with us. 🧡🧡🧡
the last thing Dr. Ramona said is so important. We HAVE to keep laughing. that’s how we’ve gotten through all this trauma is by finding the comedy in our tragedy.
My great-grandma and her siblings all went to Genoa Indian boarding school, and her father went to Haskell. I have no idea what their experiences were, the only thing I could find were newspaper articles of my great-great-grandfather helping give some students a proper burial. I wish I could listen to their stories. I’ll never stop trying to know what they went through, positive or otherwise.
❤❤❤ I grew up next to Onondaga Reservation our school flew the Onondaga flag right next to the American flag. They worked hard to educate us about true Native American history. I wish it didn’t take living next to a reservation to get an honest education.
thank you for sharing this! My university is one of those school that is refusing to return artifacts and Native remains to their respective tribes, but at the same time we have strong Native representation on campus due to the Native American Student Union. They just had their 55th annual powwow this year which I went to! While we may have a strong Native student group and studies program there are still A LOT of classes/departments that have a ton of decolonization to work through.
Still begging Slate to issue a correction on a video where the journalist said we don't exist; she's Asian it was horrifying because it felt extra gross coming from someone nonwhite.
Oh hey, I used to pass Haskell all the time when I was living in Lawrence to go to KU! Not often you hear references to ... much of anything in Kansas really
Thank you for posting this. I very much want to learn more about all of the cultures that the US has tried to erase. I really wish that I could afford to watch this program on PBS. Maybe one day.
This is my hometown, born and raised. Haskell is a great school, deep history and it's not appreciated enough. The wetlands is under threat until this very day, those are sacred lands that shouldn't be touched. I talk about the school as much as I can over the other university. And I didn't go to either schools but I understand it's important to appreciate the native land and elders.
Based on the stats at the beginning of the video, Haskell isnt one of the worst schools in the US by Western standards. It's not even in the bottom quarter. If I did my math right, it's around the 35th percentile. And considering its students often come from communities that have been forced into poverty and lack resources or connections to power, I'd say that's pretty respectable. Especially considering how it is restoring indigenous knwoledge, not just the usual academics.
It's going to be a really hard watch if you look into this further, but for the boarding schools in both the US and Canada, this was very common. Countless kids died at these schools and countless parents have no idea where there kids were buried. I believe there's been efforts to repatriate the remains of some of these kids in their ancestral lands with traditional burial rights.
Yes and I was a student at Haskell in the late 1980s. We saw the cemetery at the edge of campus but when we asked about it, the administrators told us that it was just a symbolic memorial for the students who had died there since the 1890s when it was a boarding school. So dven the Native admins lied to cover up the problems. Haskell has a big investigation ongoing under the BIA/Bureau o Indian Education because of the SA that have happened on campus.
I work at a museum that hosted the Heard Museum exhibit “Away from Home.” A family of Seneca descendants came in - in Montana - and explained they were “mostly white now” but that the eldest in the family, in her 70s, had a grandma who was sent to Haskell. She had no way to return to New York & bounced around the west. the family doubts having enough money to visit NY anytime soon (not a coincidence!), they came to the exhibit to see the Haskell artifacts and find a place in history where they belong. It was deeply humbling to host them & help them reconnect. The joke about white people’s mythic Cherokee grandmas isn’t so funny when you realize many people do have them but aren’t culturally native - because they were intentionally severed from their culture. Coerced adoptions & the criminalization of poverty in the mid century, the 60s scoop, heaped that on, but the movement is the strongest I’ve seen - my conscious life begins shortly after the 70s movement hit the “armed conflict with the FBi” stage. Rest in peace, your power lives on, Anna Mae.
My father was made to be a shame of being Indian. As a result, myself and my siblings didn't know we were Seneca much less decedents of Cornplanter. Today my father is proud to be Seneca however, he does regret that my brothers and sisters and I had to learn late in life of who we really are. Which brings up another subject. The many Indians who were not raised on the Rez. I have cousins that grew up in the Bronx, some in the Carolinas. And how much of this was by design of the U.S. government to "assimilate" the Indians?
I actually grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, where Haskell is located. I knew it was a Native American school, but I didn't know it's history. The fact that I didn't kinda shocks me now, because the public schools in that town make a huge deal about teaching the local colonizers history, but this was never mentioned. Not surprised, but it hurts my heart. Now I'm sitting here thinking about how Langston Hues was sitting in my elementary school when it was still segregated and little native children being held just across town. Did they know the other existed? If Langston Hues had known, would that have influenced his poetry? I knew my home town was bathed in blood in it's earlier days, but I never knew this side.
I got public-educated in Florida and most years our curriculum didn't cover *anybody* after 1900. We almost never got that far, and no one really tried. And of course, I learned more about Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece than I learned about the peoples of the continent I actually live on. Had to get a university degree for that...
I remember learning about the kidnappings and forced boarding schools in an "Indian Law" course in law school in the early 90s. I was dumbfounded. I wanted to scream and broadcast this information to everyone I knew and I have when ever possible. That class was the first time I had ever thought of Native history as a history of American genocide bc we were never exposed to that idea. I knew of individual battles and killings but the dots were never connected to portray it as true genocide. And also that Natives are NOT just historic and are continuing to work to rebound from that genocide. It's embarrassing and shameful how much history has been buried of Natives and Blacks. I am really dedicated to learning as much as I can possible consume now and for the future.
When I was in high school (public hs in Florida) we learned a little about Native Americans, including a fee by name such as Chief Osceola. However, it was never as extensive as learning the rest of US history.
I grew up in Alaska. I’m not native but I grew up learning about the culture…it only did good things for me. Everyone should learn about the native culture of where they live.
Thank you for providing this information. So many people in USA do not know the history of native americans. Im Modoc, and when i tell people my tribes name they are so confused. Becuz sadly majority of people dont know natives outside of the key ones mention in history books (navajo, sioux, etc), let alone a west coast native. I wish people understood that natives are still here and tribes have had to indure for many 100 of yrs just to be allowed to live on their ancestors land and speak our language.
If you have any interest in Native American history you must visit Haskell Indian Nations University. They have an amazing museum, and they celebrate their culture. The events on campus are well worth a visit, I went when I was a student at KU back in the early 2000s.
“And when they think that they'd changed me Cut my hair to meet their needs Will they think I'm white or Indian Quarter blood or just half breed Let me tell you Mr. teacher When you say you'll make me right In five hundred years of fighting Not one Indian turned white” -Drums by Johnny Cash
Utterly astonishing. Looking back at my own education I do see that this is true, and I can only think that it was my own imagination that made the Native Americans "real" - it can't have been anything in the standard educational curriculum. I grew up in western Texas, and you can bet there were plenty of misrepresentations of Native Americans. Even the attempts at positive images were flat out wrong, as I've learned now. And yet I also vividly remember the day that an actual Navajo woman came to the school and taught us how to card wool, and told us stories. I remember when someone came and read "Arrow of the Sun" to us (a children's book based on Hopi legend, I think). I don't know the provenance of that story, or the author, or anything: but I remember VERY well how powerful the story felt to me, and how much I wanted to believe that the culture, the people, were real and alive and still in the world. I was very drawn to the romanticized versions of Native Americans. The more I learn nowadays, the more respect and love I feel for all of these tribes. I haven't the faintest notion what to do to make things right. So I will listen, and try to do what I can to make sure EVERYONE hears these stories and these truths.
My ex wives grandfather and grandmother were taken off the plains of Oaklahoma at the age of about 3 years old. Their own parent were killed by the US Calvary. This was about 1906 . They both ran away at the age of 15 and made it to California. The family homestead in California is still standing and they had a family that did well and had many grandkids of all mixed races. My children are descendants of people who went through the schools after loosing their parents to massacre. And now these grandkids hunt, fish, farm and go to pow wows too.
Another unfortunate product of boarding school is that there is a lot of indigenous people around today that have no idea they're indigenous because they were raised to not be
Haskell is also one of only 5 universities in the US run by the federal government. The other 4 are West Point, The naval Academy, Air Force Academy, and the merchant marine academy.
I think one major factor is population and viewing in popular culture. A majority of native people live in a few states. States that also have very low population amounts so many people in America just won’t interact with native people a lot. Popular culture and showing native faces and stories is a great way of countering things like with shows like reservation dogs on Hulu made by native people stating native actors as real characters
THANK YOU for bringing up the KC Chiefs. I can't stand watching them win year after year with their ridiculous chant. People forced the Redskins and Indians to change, but everyone turns a blind eye to the team with Mahomes, Kelce, and Taylor Swift.
THE MOST racist word I know is ASSIMILATION . full stop . WHY is anyone "expected" to become something that they are not? WHY should anyone give up their culture, language, ideals, faith and so much more, ONLY to STILL NEVER measure up to an invisible criteria? What right does any person have to EXPECT anyone to ASSIMILATE? I was raised white. My skin is "white". And yet, I NEVER fit in, no matter how much I wanted to. As it turns out, my paternal grandmother kept a secret. She was Native American. She was ashamed of this. She had 3 sisters that I never knew because SHE didn't want us to know her secret. HER SHAME denied me my heritage. I cannot forget that … I have family out there that I'll never know.
You might try taking a DNA test from Ancestry or one of the other companies that offer them. You could possibly find unknown relatives that way. There may also be records that could help you do research. Good luck to you.
Not Canadian or American, but when I learned the story behind the Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada I felt so wtf, I don't have another way to say it
I loved Haskell, just didn’t like the mascot. It use to be a buffalo looking upward, but then changed to an Indian head. I will not wear anything with that mascot. It’s hard enough living in mainstream with stereotypical perspectives on natives. So I won’t encourage it. But I do love Haskell! Onward Haskell!!
Please show A LOT more photos of today's Native Aamericans going about their daily lives: grocery shopping, daily family life, voting, working at non-menial jobs, etc. Let's make indigenous people visible in today's American population.
The term “non-menial jobs” reflects a very liberal, capitalist understanding of the problem. Participating in a middle class American lifestyle isn’t what makes people valuable, and the real problem is that we’ve devalued many types of work and the people who do it. But if you want to see some more modern representation, try Reservation Dogs.
Am I missing something? I don't see the 'last episode' about how natives used to educate there children. Genuinely want to learn and frustrated that the Playlist seems to be missing parts I also cannot find in general content
I'm curious for your thoughts on UIUC's Chief Illiniwek. At the time of his removal as mascot, the thought was that the representation was disrespectful to tribes, even though they had made sure to honor the legacy with respect and not treat that history cartoonishly. Natives I knew took it as a sign of Indigenous erasure to make for white comfort in a SJ sort of way. A "liberals gone wrong" episode, if you will.
My boyfriend is Native American and there are so many threads 🧵 to this that are challenging to unravel. So much so, that he’s not even aware of it or how his identity has been affected because of this. He just lives his life and I’m like, but no there’s so much more to this! Fascinating ✨
I was living in Lawrence KS when Haskell made the transition from a junior college to a university. One contributing factor to its "low rankings" may be it initially only offered 4 year degrees in a few education and agricultural programs. The rankings favor schools with robust arts and sciences programs, and agricultural sciences are sometimes treated unfairly as a second class science.
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An interesting point…especially the devaluation of land-based knowledge.
Lfk is such a unique place
I want to see one about Native American literature.
Which is bizarre, because academics and research in these fields require a crap ton of biology and chemistry knowledge.
My mom was born on the Pine Ridge reservation in the 50s. Ok, she's my step mother but in reality she is my MOTHER and she kept me even after the divorce... So did her whole family, even though I was just this little white kid they kept me and loved me. I'm beyond proud to say my mother and sisters and aunties and uncle are Oglala Sioux and that these are the humans that taught me how to be a human.
Europeans not only committed a tragedy against all native nations but also against themselves - just imagine what kind of world we could be living in had these cultures been learned, understood, allowed to flourish and become part and parcel of today's culture...
Great story... Also, how did you get the hyperlink search for Oglala Sioux?
It would make my posts so much shorter if people could just search the words I type.
Lastly, your words are so true. The Latin alphabet is pretty universal only because Rome conquered the future colonists of the world. The Arabic numeric system is so universal because money good and Roman number system was bad... And Arabs/greater Muslim community controlled the trade route that linked Western Europe to Eastern Asia... Again money good.
How much better would the world be if we simply allowed the best ideas to dominate instead of the ideas of the people with the greatest appetite for violence and/or money.
This is a very simple situation where the only thing to do is to calm down and be normal. For today, the only education we need is to learn that when people say "Americans are not happy about their government", that The Act Of Saying That is a war deterrent (on the scale of a nuclear-capable ICBM which can pass through any defense system). As long as Native Americans stop "believing" that they're the only ones with any culture/tradition/history/etc, then all of the people who have been misinformed will go after the source of the misinformation (which is a group of people in the USA), unless they prevent me from continuing to inform you about heuristic techniques.
I mean, to be honest, kids are monitored for these things everywhere. However, we simply need to develop some refinement in the way that we judge kids [by judging the way in which each child is rebellious]. This is the first step toward allowing communities to exist where one's success correlates more directly with how severely one abuses his or her children than any other factor.
Just because some 1st-generation immigrants who've arrived in the US are abusing their kids and getting away with it doesn't mean that this is specific to any country. This is why, if for no other reason, the families who arrived in America on the first "waves" of immigration from "The Old World" are designated with merit around the world: because the newer immigrants are worse (and if they WEREN'T WORSE, then they would be experiencing RAPID "upward mobility", a side effect of which is Getting VERY WEALTHY VERY QUICKLY). In the past, things were better: good people could walk around saying, "Some DO Say the existence of a 'middle class' is itself a meritable ideal for one to have". Nowadays, it's a little rougher because we are CHOOSING families based on their past. That's all. Don't say you weren't warned.
Merely Being Disciplined By Members Of "One's Own Ethnicity" (as "any youth" is) DOESN'T PROVIDE ANY CLUES about ANY HISTORY/narrative in which ANY "culture" or group is doing ANYTHING.
It's so weird how americans believe heritage is through blood and not culture...
Yes! What this nation could have been if willing to learn from native people.
What a sad tragedy.
This is a beautiful story. Brown charity stories never get old! Thank you for sharing your story.
Years ago, I worked with AMAZING Haskell University students on sustainable community development projects cross-culturally in Mexico. Lifelong friends who have helped me uncover my Indigenous Mexican roots allowed my native pride to flourish further.
To see different people from åfröcentrist to eurocentrist to even Chinese making theories to claim the people had influences on Olmecs/and or were the Olmec people - shows really how great the people were/are.
Current Haskell Indian nations university student here..... I love the way they included the history of a boarding school survivor. we have generations and generations of families that have came from this school, parents even meeting here.
Woof. I'm going to have to thank my parents for raising me in college-town hippy communities where indigenous people and minorities regularly celebrate their cultures, like the Native Nations Festival, Celtic Festival, Nikkei Matsuri, and the First Peoples Festival.
My father left the academic community, but he brought that open-mindedness with him.
That sounds like a great variety and super fun. Love it.
Amazing
I feel like you could solve so many problems by paying modern Native Americans to make art pieces using traditional techniques for museums and then properly labeling them as such and giving credit to the individual who made each piece as well as that person's heritage. Because then people would still have a way of seeing this important part of American culture, but it would be grounded in the here and now. It would literally say, "We're still here" to anyone who views it.
Furthermore, it wouldn't be stolen. It would be bought from the people who made it and they would get to choose the content and could make it something that they are comfortable sharing with people rather than something sacred or private.
I'm not Native American, but I absolutely support their artifacts being repatriated. At the same time, I think it would be sad if the main way your average white American interacted with Native American culture was through whitewashed textbooks. We should put the ability to share their history and their culture in the hands of the people who created it.
Burke Museum in Seattle does this to a certain extent. Their exhibition of Native American culture prominently features modern Native American artwork done with traditional techniques and even showcases the history of what the modern artwork replaced. They even have a cafe featuring Native American inspired cuisine.
That would cause a disruption in a big way. We can't just "up and say that". I mean, sure, it's A COHERENT MESSAGE, but it's a little much. You're trying to just give a bunch of money to some weirdos who aren't really part of their community, rather than to try to "break the ice" with THEM. You're just giving oppportunistic weirdos a chance to become overpowered and put pressure DIRECTLY on Their Way Of Life. I don't know if I really "LIKE" them THAT MUCH, but you're clearly beefing with them Way More than me.
This is what I told them:
This is a very simple situation where the only thing to do is to calm down and be normal. For today, the only education we need is to learn that when people say "Americans are not happy about their government", that The Act Of Saying That is a war deterrent (on the scale of a nuclear-capable ICBM which can pass through any defense system). As long as Native Americans stop "believing" that they're the only ones with any culture/tradition/history/etc, then all of the people who have been misinformed will go after the source of the misinformation (which is a group of people in the USA), unless they prevent me from continuing to inform you about heuristic techniques.
I mean, to be honest, kids are monitored for these things everywhere. However, we simply need to develop some refinement in the way that we judge kids [by judging the way in which each child is rebellious]. This is the first step toward allowing communities to exist where one's success correlates more directly with how severely one abuses his or her children than any other factor.
Just because some 1st-generation immigrants who've arrived in the US are abusing their kids and getting away with it doesn't mean that this is specific to any country. This is why, if for no other reason, the families who arrived in America on the first "waves" of immigration from "The Old World" are designated with merit around the world: because the newer immigrants are worse (and if they WEREN'T WORSE, then they would be experiencing RAPID "upward mobility", a side effect of which is Getting VERY WEALTHY VERY QUICKLY). In the past, things were better: good people could walk around saying, "Some DO Say the existence of a 'middle class' is itself a meritable ideal for one to have". Nowadays, it's a little rougher because we are CHOOSING families based on their past. That's all. Don't say you weren't warned.
Merely Being Disciplined By Members Of "One's Own Ethnicity" (as "any youth" is) DOESN'T PROVIDE ANY CLUES about ANY HISTORY/narrative in which ANY "culture" or group is doing ANYTHING.
“The people who created it”…in most cases they are dead.
But it’s not American Culture.
@@seanrowshandel1680 You don't sound lucid at all. Are you okay?
Haskell Indian Nations University students have a great program to take some other courses offer at neighboring Kansas University in Lawrence. And KU students also have opportunity to take courses at Haskell that aren't offered at KU.
Watching with tears in my eyes. My grandma went to one of the old style boarding schools. It was so terrible for her that I can’t even express it coherently. Thanks for shedding a light on this.
I'm so curious about this topic. The episodes of Reservation Dogs about the boarding schools were so powerful.
Yeah that's a gross way to put it.
@@lowwastehighmelaninsorry but whats gross about expressing curiosity about this? Curiosity is a good thing. More people need to be curious about the crimes that the United States helped commit. Thats what it takes to be educated about these topics especially when they arent widely taught
thank you @@ktk44man for encouraging me to express curiosity, I want to help uplift Indigenous people's causes by learning from Indigenous people. How odd that wanting to learn more about Indigenous issues is considered gross by some people.
@@ktk44manif you can’t do anything about it what will you hearing about people rapes and beating do besides quell your. Curiosity
@@alissalatour7332they can do something about it! That’s why they made the episodes in the first place. To educate. To raise awareness. To make change now. Because there’s a lot that needs to be changed.
It’s the same with learning about the holocaust. We cannot erase this history. We need to learn about why the nazis killed the disabled, Jews, transgender, and more. Should they not allow people to go to Auschwitz anymore? The holocaust is gross, but we should learn about it. Same with the genocide of native Americans.
Listening the these Indigenous Students’ Stories is heartwrenching.
My family went to some of the boarding schools in Wisconsin: Hayward Indian Boarding School (Lac Courte Oreilles), St. Mary's Indian Boarding School (Bad River), and Lac du Flambeau Government Boarding School. Two of them closed after the Great Depression, but the latter, Lac du Flambeau, at least rebranded with government funding from the BIA in 1975 for cultural and language restoration (I even remember going to my first Ojibwe language classes out there with the AODA program as a young one.) Now, I teach at one of the handful of Indigenous Alternative Education schools in the Nation, started by AIM, making sure the language is taught to our young ones.
More please!!! These are the truth & that is what everyone needs now…. Actuality. The only way to atone for mistakes is to fully admit them imo.
I'm so glad you posted this video. A lot of us have heard of the boarding schools but we might not know all the details, or the larger context. Content like this probably helps more than you know.
I am not native american. I support the return of artifacts and the dead that are being paraded about as trophies as if they are from a long dead burried peoples back to where those people still live or whatever they wish done. I wouldl ike some exhibits to remain, or t obe created to educate but at the same time you are correct in that there is this perception and portrayal that native peoples are culturally if not ethnically... dead.
'We' (the US government) broke faith and treaty wit hthe native peoples time and time again. There needs to be a redress. This isn't 'Hey everyone who is on paper native american gets money' that is an empty gesture that does nothing but give conservitives a club to beat people with. There needs to be systimic change so that natives are given a fair seat at the table so their voice is heard where and how it matters most.
We've taken too much already, and even giving (what i consider an impossibility given the pushback) full voting rights, or enlarging and assisting in making the reservations more.... None of that will undo what has been done, but at this point doing more than just empty hand wringing would be nice.
"We The People' .... Well, you guys were here first. You are part of that 'We' and the rest of us should acknowledge that.
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I second this
Nice laundry list of platitudes. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for that one
You still ain't no ally of mine
@@WickedKnightAlbel Well, OK?
Um many tribes have voting rights? 😅
I have two cousins from Pine Ridge rez who attend there now and many family members who have graduated from Haskell.
My dad’s parents and my mom’s grandmother all went to boarding schools. I saw the different ways in which the schools affected the generations to come. My dad ended up being a very, very abusive and traumatized person, while my mom grew up with the love of her culture. I still live with the trauma of what happened to my VERY close relatives. I’m 21 and this horrific part of Indigenous history STILL effect generations and still might effect the next generations to come. It’s crazy the amount of people I meet that still have NO CLUE the atrocities our ancestors went through and most of us go through today. Yakoke to Dr. Klein for sharing her story and sharing her wisdom and warmth
I'm sorry did he say 40% of people don't know Native people still exist???? How tf 💀
This is true. My friend used to live in NY and had no idea Native people like me still existed. She was baffled after moving to Lawrence...
The statistic was removed from the video because it couldn't be corroborated (in the description for the video).
Most Natives live in remote areas in places most Americans don't care about. Same with Black Appalachian they're actually a lot of them and they are essential to the development of Appalachian culture particularly linguistic but people think everyone in Appalachia is white
@@anactualtree652 that's so sad to hear as someone with Cayuga ancestry. I grew up in Eastern WA on Yakama land and have never been to NY sadly, so idk how it is over there right now...
100% believable! I used to work for Garmin and I talked to a woman from New York. She asked if we were in Texas. I said that we were in Kansas. She said "Well isn't Kansas in Texas?" @@anactualtree652
Thank you to making this series of videos. They are well done.
These were not "boarding schools," they were internment centers. For children. A disgraceful portion of Euro-American history. We must do better.
Still ongoing for mental health struggling adolescents.
All the locations, whether the specific previous tribal school or not, they massively exist.
For me- cedar city, Ut.
Unable to speak or learn languages
Little schooling
Values based from LDS church
We learned to clean forcible land & ranch work. After so long we were “Love” phase where we were now deserving of love
Went to the Autry Museum's exhibit on Sherman Indian School a few months ago. It was created in conjunction with the current school administration and it's graduates and it's amazingly informative (I believe it'll be there until May if anyone coming to LA wants to check it out)
the number of times my jaw dropped watching this equals how many tabs i opened. the work tai and co. produces is remarkable. i love learning here ❤❤❤
While living in Lawrence KS, I greatly enjoyed the big powwow and art fair every August. It showcased amazing dancers, music, and arts. It shared native talents with the community.
I worked with Sherman Indian High School in Southern California last semester as an intern. Really eye opening experience in a place with an obviously very complicated history. I loved the students there!
I used to play Sherman in basketball! I'm from Cahuilla 🙌
That’s awesome! 👏🏽 I miss it there. Graduated c/o 2016✨
I have gone to a museum that has Native American artifacts displayed (I assume proudly) by the tribe on their land. Puget Sound area I think, but don't quote me on that. It was absolutely fascinating to learn about their past. It was also very refreshing and heartbreaking to learn how they have been treated throughout colonization and moder times. I went to the history museum in New York and just couldn't see it as anything besides a monument to colonialism and greed and discrimination.
Yes, I want to learn about Native Americans and their culture but I want to learn it from them, on their terms. Not from a society that has literally tried to make them go extinct.
This is how I felt when I went to the Vatican. There are riches, but I mostly see gold from South America behind the opulence
Sherman Indian High School, which was a historical Native American boarding school, has a native mascot as well.
I was thinking about Sherman also. I was hoping this video would explain how boarding schools went from bad to good. It didn't. He just said Haskell was bad and now it's good. Somewhere along the line, people made some choices to change. That's where the important history lies, where we make choices to change for the better.
@tomwoods3026 I was hoping for an explanation of when they changed bc I heard from others how they were bad, but surprised, in the 20ish years, natives go to them voluntary now.
Great short video it was informative and we'll-presented. It made me cry a little bit too.
Thank you for teaching me what my school wouldn’t.
keep 'em coming!
this world needs more of the wisdom that is *embedded* in native american culture.
more. than. ever.
I just stumbled on these & I don't even live in America. I hope more people see this and it reaches more Americans too
I used to know a Haskell TA, when I was a student at the University of Kansas. I was glad to see them attain their goal of becoming a 4 year college. He’s probably a professor by now.
Thank you. This channel is outstanding. Love and respect from London, UK.
Thankyou for this. I'm in Australia, and I sense echoes in the story of our First Nation Peoples, to those of the Americas. I wish we had a similar resource as you've made for Australia's First People's culture, and the impact of white colonisers, historical and ongoing.
Yeah, I've heard of Haskell University. I live five minutes away from it, after all. :)
Back in 89-91 when I was goin to broken arrow and south Jr high (EVEN THO Haskellis literally right behind broken arrow school) a fellow classmate who lived next door to me all his LIFE thought KU was the ONLY college in Lawrence 😂 (i lived so close on Louisiana and 25th street)🤷🏽♀️
Hey I went to college on Lawrence! It always blew my mind how little intermingling there was between Haskell and KU students, I met more Haskell students through Lawrence townies than I ever did hanging out with KU classmates.
Haskell has a better connection to the Lawrence community than KU though, they host art festivals and sponsor several community events throughout the year. Stuff directed to local families and children. It's a nice campus too, I used to drive delivery to it.
How terrible, unfair, and horrifying it's to hear that this was the experience of so many people.😢
This makes sense why my great grandfather left my great grandmother when she was pregnant with my grandfather. It was the 50s he didn’t want him treated that way 😢
iz got 4 years attended BHSC in the 79;s for native studies minor, social sciences major not completed. mom taught Lakota Oral lititure and ended with phd education. set up curriculums for school districts. she helped get the old women stories into text from tape. i 2 semester of Lakota language, 1 course in minor just on Indian Education history. books by authors helped in studes used.ie Eredoes.
Epigenetics involves how the DNA of our cells gets folded. If its folded up it is not ‘being used’ where as if it is unfolded your cell can access it easily. The way DNA is folded dictates which genes can be used, how the cell works.
This DNA folding is copied during cell duplication and even from parent to child.
Since stress, trauma, has been shown to change the epigenetics of your body, your cells.
There are studies theorising how in this way parents pass on their endured stress and the effect it causes on them, onto their children.
My parents drove by Haskell every few weeks to buy groceries at Checkers , my whole childhood. Haskell always drew my attention.
This series is incredible, tysm forall y'all's work ❤🎉❤
Thank you for sharing your story, Ramona Klein! And, thank you Tai Leclaire for putting this together.
I can't imagine reliving these memories, but I truly learn so much and I truly appreciate both of you sharing your knowledge with us. 🧡🧡🧡
"Continue to laugh." Brilliant. Just brillant.
this series is 🔥
the last thing Dr. Ramona said is so important. We HAVE to keep laughing. that’s how we’ve gotten through all this trauma is by finding the comedy in our tragedy.
this hurts too much for me to watch. Keep demanding the US compliance with treaties. Love to you all x
My great-grandma and her siblings all went to Genoa Indian boarding school, and her father went to Haskell. I have no idea what their experiences were, the only thing I could find were newspaper articles of my great-great-grandfather helping give some students a proper burial.
I wish I could listen to their stories. I’ll never stop trying to know what they went through, positive or otherwise.
❤❤❤ I grew up next to Onondaga Reservation our school flew the Onondaga flag right next to the American flag. They worked hard to educate us about true Native American history. I wish it didn’t take living next to a reservation to get an honest education.
This is in LaFayette, NY
Thanks for this interview with Dr. Klein and sharing this history.
thank you for sharing this! My university is one of those school that is refusing to return artifacts and Native remains to their respective tribes, but at the same time we have strong Native representation on campus due to the Native American Student Union. They just had their 55th annual powwow this year which I went to! While we may have a strong Native student group and studies program there are still A LOT of classes/departments that have a ton of decolonization to work through.
I want to learn more about real American History and culture. Native pride.
Still begging Slate to issue a correction on a video where the journalist said we don't exist; she's Asian it was horrifying because it felt extra gross coming from someone nonwhite.
northeast asians are white af bro i mean they pale n vm the cultural shit
Which video are you referring to?
I grew up around KS City. I've always known about Haskell, but didn't know the details of how it got started. Very cool!
Oh hey, I used to pass Haskell all the time when I was living in Lawrence to go to KU!
Not often you hear references to ... much of anything in Kansas really
I’m white. Thankyou for your excellent videos. I’m sorry for the suffering the indigenous people went through.
I live in PA. Very few people know that the school in Hershey was an Indian school. Hopefully, others will read this and KNOW.
Thank you for posting this. I very much want to learn more about all of the cultures that the US has tried to erase. I really wish that I could afford to watch this program on PBS. Maybe one day.
This is my hometown, born and raised. Haskell is a great school, deep history and it's not appreciated enough. The wetlands is under threat until this very day, those are sacred lands that shouldn't be touched. I talk about the school as much as I can over the other university. And I didn't go to either schools but I understand it's important to appreciate the native land and elders.
Love from Lawrence, Kansas!
Indian School in downtown phoenix now near a classic hotel there, kids died in the well underneath that hotel.
Based on the stats at the beginning of the video, Haskell isnt one of the worst schools in the US by Western standards. It's not even in the bottom quarter. If I did my math right, it's around the 35th percentile. And considering its students often come from communities that have been forced into poverty and lack resources or connections to power, I'd say that's pretty respectable. Especially considering how it is restoring indigenous knwoledge, not just the usual academics.
My dad graduated from Haskell Indian Jr College back in Dec 91
EXCUSE ME a cemetery for the school... dang
It's going to be a really hard watch if you look into this further, but for the boarding schools in both the US and Canada, this was very common. Countless kids died at these schools and countless parents have no idea where there kids were buried. I believe there's been efforts to repatriate the remains of some of these kids in their ancestral lands with traditional burial rights.
@@carolynr4084Yeah the cemeteries often weren't marked so people are only starting to become aware they are even there at all
Not to mention the unmarked hundreds that were laid to rest in the surrounding wetlands to the South.
Yes and I was a student at Haskell in the late 1980s. We saw the cemetery at the edge of campus but when we asked about it, the administrators told us that it was just a symbolic memorial for the students who had died there since the 1890s when it was a boarding school. So dven the Native admins lied to cover up the problems. Haskell has a big investigation ongoing under the BIA/Bureau o Indian Education because of the SA that have happened on campus.
I work at a museum that hosted the Heard Museum exhibit “Away from Home.” A family of Seneca descendants came in - in Montana - and explained they were “mostly white now” but that the eldest in the family, in her 70s, had a grandma who was sent to Haskell. She had no way to return to New York & bounced around the west. the family doubts having enough money to visit NY anytime soon (not a coincidence!), they came to the exhibit to see the Haskell artifacts and find a place in history where they belong. It was deeply humbling to host them & help them reconnect. The joke about white people’s mythic Cherokee grandmas isn’t so funny when you realize many people do have them but aren’t culturally native - because they were intentionally severed from their culture. Coerced adoptions & the criminalization of poverty in the mid century, the 60s scoop, heaped that on, but the movement is the strongest I’ve seen - my conscious life begins shortly after the 70s movement hit the “armed conflict with the FBi” stage. Rest in peace, your power lives on, Anna Mae.
I used to go there to hang out with the LDS students while attending KU. I loved the school and loved the people.
My father was made to be a shame of being Indian. As a result, myself and my siblings didn't know we were Seneca much less decedents of Cornplanter. Today my father is proud to be Seneca however, he does regret that my brothers and sisters and I had to learn late in life of who we really are.
Which brings up another subject. The many Indians who were not raised on the Rez. I have cousins that grew up in the Bronx, some in the Carolinas. And how much of this was by design of the U.S. government to "assimilate" the Indians?
I actually grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, where Haskell is located. I knew it was a Native American school, but I didn't know it's history. The fact that I didn't kinda shocks me now, because the public schools in that town make a huge deal about teaching the local colonizers history, but this was never mentioned. Not surprised, but it hurts my heart. Now I'm sitting here thinking about how Langston Hues was sitting in my elementary school when it was still segregated and little native children being held just across town. Did they know the other existed? If Langston Hues had known, would that have influenced his poetry? I knew my home town was bathed in blood in it's earlier days, but I never knew this side.
I’m addicted to these videos
Thank you!
Thanks!
I got public-educated in Florida and most years our curriculum didn't cover *anybody* after 1900. We almost never got that far, and no one really tried. And of course, I learned more about Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece than I learned about the peoples of the continent I actually live on. Had to get a university degree for that...
I remember learning about the kidnappings and forced boarding schools in an "Indian Law" course in law school in the early 90s. I was dumbfounded. I wanted to scream and broadcast this information to everyone I knew and I have when ever possible. That class was the first time I had ever thought of Native history as a history of American genocide bc we were never exposed to that idea. I knew of individual battles and killings but the dots were never connected to portray it as true genocide. And also that Natives are NOT just historic and are continuing to work to rebound from that genocide. It's embarrassing and shameful how much history has been buried of Natives and Blacks. I am really dedicated to learning as much as I can possible consume now and for the future.
Really great video! But I would have liked for you to have interviewed any staff at Haskell?
When I was in high school (public hs in Florida) we learned a little about Native Americans, including a fee by name such as Chief Osceola. However, it was never as extensive as learning the rest of US history.
My parents both went to KU and I've been to Lawrence numerous times, so yes I know Haskell
Thank you for this.
Did 23 years in Lawrence. Taught a few classes at Haskell. Great school
I grew up in Alaska. I’m not native but I grew up learning about the culture…it only did good things for me. Everyone should learn about the native culture of where they live.
Thank you for providing this information. So many people in USA do not know the history of native americans. Im Modoc, and when i tell people my tribes name they are so confused. Becuz sadly majority of people dont know natives outside of the key ones mention in history books (navajo, sioux, etc), let alone a west coast native. I wish people understood that natives are still here and tribes have had to indure for many 100 of yrs just to be allowed to live on their ancestors land and speak our language.
If you have any interest in Native American history you must visit Haskell Indian Nations University. They have an amazing museum, and they celebrate their culture. The events on campus are well worth a visit, I went when I was a student at KU back in the early 2000s.
“And when they think that they'd changed me
Cut my hair to meet their needs
Will they think I'm white or Indian
Quarter blood or just half breed
Let me tell you Mr. teacher
When you say you'll make me right
In five hundred years of fighting
Not one Indian turned white” -Drums by Johnny Cash
More please
Utterly astonishing. Looking back at my own education I do see that this is true, and I can only think that it was my own imagination that made the Native Americans "real" - it can't have been anything in the standard educational curriculum. I grew up in western Texas, and you can bet there were plenty of misrepresentations of Native Americans. Even the attempts at positive images were flat out wrong, as I've learned now.
And yet I also vividly remember the day that an actual Navajo woman came to the school and taught us how to card wool, and told us stories. I remember when someone came and read "Arrow of the Sun" to us (a children's book based on Hopi legend, I think). I don't know the provenance of that story, or the author, or anything: but I remember VERY well how powerful the story felt to me, and how much I wanted to believe that the culture, the people, were real and alive and still in the world. I was very drawn to the romanticized versions of Native Americans.
The more I learn nowadays, the more respect and love I feel for all of these tribes. I haven't the faintest notion what to do to make things right.
So I will listen, and try to do what I can to make sure EVERYONE hears these stories and these truths.
My ex wives grandfather and grandmother were taken off the plains of Oaklahoma at the age of about 3 years old. Their own parent were killed by the US Calvary. This was about 1906 . They both ran away at the age of 15 and made it to California. The family homestead in California is still standing and they had a family that did well and had many grandkids of all mixed races. My children are descendants of people who went through the schools after loosing their parents to massacre. And now these grandkids hunt, fish, farm and go to pow wows too.
Another unfortunate product of boarding school is that there is a lot of indigenous people around today that have no idea they're indigenous because they were raised to not be
I would have liked to know how Haskell made the transformation. The fact that its good now is wonderful. But its also remarkable.
High school history classes are geared toward passing the AP exams. From what I recall, the AP exam never asked any questions about native peoples.
Haskell is also one of only 5 universities in the US run by the federal government. The other 4 are West Point, The naval Academy, Air Force Academy, and the merchant marine academy.
I think one major factor is population and viewing in popular culture. A majority of native people live in a few states. States that also have very low population amounts so many people in America just won’t interact with native people a lot. Popular culture and showing native faces and stories is a great way of countering things like with shows like reservation dogs on Hulu made by native people stating native actors as real characters
THANK YOU for bringing up the KC Chiefs. I can't stand watching them win year after year with their ridiculous chant. People forced the Redskins and Indians to change, but everyone turns a blind eye to the team with Mahomes, Kelce, and Taylor Swift.
why are people so cruel
In 2000s Oklahoma they thought Native history throughout high school, but I think the last things they mention are Wounded Knee & Heritage Month.
THE MOST racist word I know is ASSIMILATION . full stop .
WHY is anyone "expected" to become something that they are not? WHY should anyone give up their culture, language, ideals, faith and so much more, ONLY to STILL NEVER measure up to an invisible criteria? What right does any person have to EXPECT anyone to ASSIMILATE?
I was raised white. My skin is "white". And yet, I NEVER fit in, no matter how much I wanted to.
As it turns out, my paternal grandmother kept a secret. She was Native American. She was ashamed of this. She had 3 sisters that I never knew because SHE didn't want us to know her secret. HER SHAME denied me my heritage. I cannot forget that …
I have family out there that I'll never know.
You might try taking a DNA test from Ancestry or one of the other companies that offer them. You could possibly find unknown relatives that way. There may also be records that could help you do research. Good luck to you.
@@debbiej.2168 I wish I could afford DNA testing. I never realized just how "fixed" a fixed income was until now!
@@SpecialSP know what you mean.
Not Canadian or American, but when I learned the story behind the Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada I felt so wtf, I don't have another way to say it
I loved Haskell, just didn’t like the mascot. It use to be a buffalo looking upward, but then changed to an Indian head. I will not wear anything with that mascot. It’s hard enough living in mainstream with stereotypical perspectives on natives. So I won’t encourage it. But I do love Haskell! Onward Haskell!!
Please show A LOT more photos of today's Native Aamericans going about their daily lives: grocery shopping, daily family life, voting, working at non-menial jobs, etc. Let's make indigenous people visible in today's American population.
The term “non-menial jobs” reflects a very liberal, capitalist understanding of the problem. Participating in a middle class American lifestyle isn’t what makes people valuable, and the real problem is that we’ve devalued many types of work and the people who do it. But if you want to see some more modern representation, try Reservation Dogs.
Am I missing something? I don't see the 'last episode' about how natives used to educate there children. Genuinely want to learn and frustrated that the Playlist seems to be missing parts I also cannot find in general content
I didn't even know about the boarding schools until I visited the Heard Museum in Phoenix and they had an exhibit about it.
KU, which is in the same city as Haskell, still has the remains of native people.
I'm curious for your thoughts on UIUC's Chief Illiniwek. At the time of his removal as mascot, the thought was that the representation was disrespectful to tribes, even though they had made sure to honor the legacy with respect and not treat that history cartoonishly. Natives I knew took it as a sign of Indigenous erasure to make for white comfort in a SJ sort of way. A "liberals gone wrong" episode, if you will.
My boyfriend is Native American and there are so many threads 🧵 to this that are challenging to unravel. So much so, that he’s not even aware of it or how his identity has been affected because of this. He just lives his life and I’m like, but no there’s so much more to this! Fascinating ✨