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Ptah

(32,983 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 09:08 AM Mar 2017

Browning students already on great trip, then Michelle Obama walks in ...

Nine students from Browning High School were already on the trip of a lifetime. Then, former first lady Michelle Obama walked into the room.

Students from Browning’s Human Rights Club spent a week in the nation’s capital as part of a cultural exchange experience with the students of the Sidwell Friends School, a nonprofit Quaker school with a tuition of more than $40,000. Sasha Obama, former President Barack Obama’s 15-year-old daughter, attends the school.

While the students gave presentations on Native culture to some of the younger students at Sidwell, they were quickly rushed out of the room and down the hall. They gathered in a conference room.

Unbeknownst to them, Michelle was on campus for a meeting with Sasha’s counselor. Bryan Garman, head of Sidwell, told Michelle about the Browning students and asked if she would come meet with them.




http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2017/03/29/michelle-obama-surprises-browning-students-cultural-trip/99729250/
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Browning students already on great trip, then Michelle Obama walks in ... (Original Post) Ptah Mar 2017 OP
Awesome! Damn I miss FLOTUS Docreed2003 Mar 2017 #1
I miss her so much! get the red out Mar 2017 #2
Imagine Melania in that situation heaven05 Mar 2017 #3
Maleria..... IdiotsforPalin Mar 2017 #4
Michelle is the best-what a wonderful thing to do for these kids. jalan48 Mar 2017 #5
I think the real story is not Michelle Obama. Ptah Mar 2017 #6
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
3. Imagine Melania in that situation
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 09:18 AM
Mar 2017

and what she would have done. Sad, from class to totally crass in one campaign/election.

FLOTUS Michelle Obama is really a great human being.

Ptah

(32,983 posts)
6. I think the real story is not Michelle Obama.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:06 AM
Mar 2017
The students had their first major cultural experience of the week as they toured the capital and looked up at the murals depicting Native people.

“There was Native representation, but it was in the context of Columbus and the baptism of Pocahontas,” RunningCrane said. “They were naked in all of the depictions except Pocahontas.”

RunningCrane said she wished the murals showed a more accurate version of Native history and told the stories of Indians wanting to help the new settlers before they were met with aggression.

“The way it went from friendly to oppression so quickly — that’s what’s accurate,” RunningCrane said. “It’s painful, but it’s true.”

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“My host family asked about Indian names,” RunningCrane said. “My name is Dylan on my birth certificate. My Indian name was given to me by my grandpa and it’s only used for prayer. I don’t personally take it as offensive, but it got annoying because they started using my Indian name flippantly. They come from a progressive school, so they’re pretty open-minded, but they misunderstood a few things.”

The students found some of the misconceptions funny. For whatever reason, it was circulating among the Sidwell students that there are only six escalators in the whole state of Montana.
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