Native American child sent home over traditional mohawk

[dogmom]

.".... The parents offered to bring in a tribal card proving the boy is Native American, but the district demanded a tribal letter."
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well the school didn't allow showing the card, so the card wasn't enough but the family had to get a letter from a Seneca Nation member in N.Y. I just wonder if the school's or district's approach would have been different and less stringent if the child had not been First Nation?


Many people don't get it. Racism and the effects of it isn't over with and should not be forgotten.

 

[Reba]

That is one thing I am puzzled about the teacher or the public school wanting to get the letter from their Seneca Tribal Council to prove they are Natives.

I don't think the teacher wanted a letter showing proof of their status but proof that the haircut was really a tradition of their tribe.

If Mom show her band status, even her son's band status to the teacher or principal that this is the prove that they are native, but they are using the parents like children and had them get the letter from their tribal Chief and council. This is what make me upset about the school treatment on the parent(s) having to act like a child or children. Yes, in their tribal ways, they can use their tribal traditions to use different hair styles to their choosing. Not every tribe are not the same as they have different way to dress and using hair styles.

I don't think the teacher doubted the boy's status. She wanted to know if his haircut was truly a tradition of his specific tribe. Like you posted, not every tribe has the same traditions.

Yeah, many Native children were forced to go into the boarding schools to changed their way of life as white as possible to be like the white people just like hearing people want us to be like hearing people to "fix" us with hearing aids and CI along with speech and listening.

Yes, that was bad but not the same. The boarding schools knew that the children were Native, and that those really were their tribal traditions but forced them to change anyway. The current school situation is that once they knew it was a true tradition, the boy was allowed to keep the hair. He didn't have to change it.

I have had to put up with both of their cultures as I get frustrated trying to make head and tail on what they are doing to us. It make us all unhappy when we could not get our own tradition (culture) and our own languages back again. We are not children. We are adults and we can do fine with our children. Thank you.

Can the tribes establish their own schools, like charter schools, where their culture is taught and supported?

 

[Reba]

.".... The parents offered to bring in a tribal card proving the boy is Native American, but the district demanded a tribal letter."
<end quote>

well the school didn't allow showing the card, so the card wasn't enough but the family had to get a letter from a Seneca Nation member in N.Y. I just wonder if the school's or district's approach would have been different and less stringent if the child had not been First Nation?

Many people don't get it. Racism and the effects of it isn't over with and should not be forgotten.

The rule should be the same for all the students. With documentation, Hasidic boys should be allowed to wear traditional side curls, Muslim girls should be allowed to wear hijabs, etc.

Anyone who has a belief or tradition should be glad to explain it to other people. If anyone were to ask me why I do or don't do something because of my beliefs, I would be glad to tell them, and provide documentation, if requested.

 

[Barbaro]

Can the tribes establish their own schools, like charter schools, where their culture is taught and supported?

Yes, however I am told that local tribes have love-hate relationship with the Indian Affair of Bureau, because it is right under the Department of Interior. The Bureau technically is responsible for education in Indian Country. I recall vaguely the commissioner of the Indian Affairs reports to the Assistant secretary of the Interior. I didn't come up with 'Indian Country'. It is right there in American Indian law. The Bureau runs Indian boarding schools for years, but in the past, the Bureau used to ensure the assimilation happened in the schools. It changed that that the Bureau had recent contracts allowing tribal or community control of some of the schools. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act passed about 30 years ago(?). The boom of casinos are everywhere now and the profits go to the building of the new schools, colleges, centers, etc on res. Actually, the tribes have been divided over the casino issue. Believe it or not, Trump HATES it, and complains that it had been "hurting" his business. Ha!

 

[Reba]

Yes, however I am told that local tribes have love-hate relationship with the Indian Affair of Bureau, because it is right under the Department of Interior. The Bureau technically is responsible for education in Indian Country. I recall vaguely the commissioner of the Indian Affairs reports to the Assistant secretary of the Interior. I didn't come up with 'Indian Country'. It is right there in American Indian law. The Bureau runs Indian boarding schools for years, but in the past, the Bureau used to ensure the assimilation happened in the schools. It changed that that the Bureau had recent contracts allowing tribal or community control of some of the schools. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act passed about 30 years ago(?). The boom of casinos are everywhere now and the profits go to the building of the new schools, colleges, centers, etc on res. Actually, the tribes have been divided over the casino issue. Believe it or not, Trump HATES it, and complains that it had been "hurting" his business. Ha!

Well, that's understandable.

Too bad for Trump. Ha, ha!

 

[Barbaro]

Oh, yeah. Trump had hired lawyers to try to get the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act repealed, and kept making troubles stopping casinos on reservations from building. He sued the government saying that it was unconstitutional, but he failed. It was insane.

 

[Secretblend]

Maybe that is real reason why he's running for President? To try to change that law and others?

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Maybe that is real reason why he's running for President? To try to change that law and others?

Clint Eastwood became Mayor of Carmel so he could change the zoning laws there , I bet you're spot on about Trump !

 

[Bebonang]

Yes, however I am told that local tribes have love-hate relationship with the Indian Affair of Bureau, because it is right under the Department of Interior. The Bureau technically is responsible for education in Indian Country. I recall vaguely the commissioner of the Indian Affairs reports to the Assistant secretary of the Interior. I didn't come up with 'Indian Country'. It is right there in American Indian law. The Bureau runs Indian boarding schools for years, but in the past, the Bureau used to ensure the assimilation happened in the schools. It changed that that the Bureau had recent contracts allowing tribal or community control of some of the schools. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act passed about 30 years ago(?). The boom of casinos are everywhere now and the profits go to the building of the new schools, colleges, centers, etc on res. Actually, the tribes have been divided over the casino issue. Believe it or not, Trump HATES it, and complains that it had been "hurting" his business. Ha!

Oh, yeah. Trump had hired lawyers to try to get the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act repealed, and kept making troubles stopping casinos on reservations from building. He sued the government saying that it was unconstitutional, but he failed. It was insane.