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Interview transcript
In a public school system and in mission schools, we never learned about our own history. Nobody ever taught us any of our history. It was all American history. So, you know, many of the kids grew up thinking that, you know, their history started with Columbus. They didn't have any knowledge of their own family histories, their own tribal histories. And so it's really important for our kids to realize that we do have a history. And we have winter counts. We have star knowledge. We have, you know, many things that we can use to teach history. Oral history, you know, stories that we've heard of things that happened. And there's many humorous stories, you... history.