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  1. Sep 2021
    1. run all risks, and incur all consequences, rather than submit

      resistance-reminds me of all of the acts of native resistance from Gord Hill's book

    2. FACTS will be there to ensure those words are, like the broken bodies of the Cherokee children buried in the Brainerd or Springplace mission cemeteries, forever buried.

      This is a very powerful image

    3. but there can be no reasonable argument against the idea that the United States was created through the oppression of other races

      how much freedom do educators have to interpret these laws?

    4. It must be said from the outset, of course, that American Indian history is not an unremitting litany of loss and tragedy

      Joy is an act of resistance. Joy is political. How can you even teach Native joy without acknowledging the pain it resists?

    5. Critical Race Theory is not being taught in Virginia’s K-12 schools.

      CRT is being disputed most in places that are not interested in teaching it. I have heard most protest against the idea of it than the actual implementation

    6. Three of the states that were carved out of land from the Cherokee Nation are among those making such proposals

      Of course colonizers are not interested in teaching the history of their colonization