How we can do right by the next generation of native people
It was my honor to present research from the Reclaiming Native Truth project at the 2020 BYM Women’s Retreat—an annual gathering of Quaker women seeking truth and pursuing a more peaceful and equitable world. The project’s groundbreaking research and analyses reveal how and why myths and toxic stereotypes about native people are allowed to continue in digital and mass media and in consumer brands. In short, the absence of native people post-1900 in K-12 education creates a void in public…