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By Rhonda Bodfield
Tucson, Arizona (AP)
When Donna Bizadi-Tallsalt was growing up in Chinle, members of her Navajo community never encouraged her to go into teaching.
American Indians have long had a complicated relationship with education, stemming in large part from the policies in the late 1800s and early 1900s of using schools as an instrument of assimilation. Children were forcibly removed from their homes and given new names and clothes. They weren’t allowed to practice their religion.
Tucson, Arizona (AP)
When Donna Bizadi-Tallsalt was growing up in Chinle, members of her Navajo community never encouraged her to go into teaching.
American Indians have long had a complicated relationship with education, stemming in large part from the policies in the late 1800s and early 1900s of using schools as an instrument of assimilation. Children were forcibly removed from their homes and given new names and clothes. They weren’t allowed to practice their religion.
