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So my friend suggesting the addition to me in a forced Native American school really meant a lot to both of us, especially right now. My best friend is a Native American, no I’m not talking about those white people that go “I’m 1/30th Native American!” because that annoys the heck out of her and now me as well! She is literally half native, her mother being full. She had always been a fan of her history in the past, but recently she has really been getting closer to her native culture and trying to interact with her small tribe more often. Recently I watched a Netflix series called Anne With an E, and in it the main character named Anne happily accepts a Native American girl while that kind of thing was heavily frowned upon. It broke my heart to see that little native girl sent off to a school that tortured her and tried to force her into a new religion. I brought this up to my best friend and we talked about how horrible it was for the adults and the children of the time and it honestly makes me mad! History really sucks. What sucks even more is Native Americans still get treated poorly today! With the BLM movement happening I’m hearing stories from her cousins being called dirty because they have brown skin- I already heard these types of stories before but now it’s getting worse. There’s this YouTube video going around that made me laugh of a white woman trying to kick a Native American out of a store and the people around standing up for the poor girl getting yelled at.

Nonetheless this makes me sad, it makes me very mad as well, and I really hope people can change sooner rather than later.

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