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Cobalt Violet
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September 23, 2021
Under Pressure, S.D. Gov. Noem Delays Social Studies Standards That Erase Native History
https://nativenewsonline.net/education/s-d-gov-noem-delays-social-studies-standards-that-erase-native-history?fbclid=IwAR1wg9D6c7SaIL7Y2guAVItQAGsPb5bodyjr9-dOXso_jt8kUqmXm5uslpAPIERRE, S.D. Facing bipartisan pressure and calls for her resignation by the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told the state Department of Education to postpone controversial changes to its social studies standards for up to one year to allow for more public input.
Tribes from across South Dakota voiced their ire last month after officials from Noems South Dakota Department of Education scrubbed more than a dozen Indigenous-centered learning objectives from the departments new social studies standards before releasing the document to the public.
The American Indian leaders, educators and community members called the removal of the objectives Native erasure.
Our children were stolen from us in past generation, forcefully assimilated or secretly buried in boarding schools under the kill the Indian and save the Man ideologies, and it would seem that the task to erase them has not ended under Governor Kristi Noems administration and leadership, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier said in August.
Tribes from across South Dakota voiced their ire last month after officials from Noems South Dakota Department of Education scrubbed more than a dozen Indigenous-centered learning objectives from the departments new social studies standards before releasing the document to the public.
The American Indian leaders, educators and community members called the removal of the objectives Native erasure.
Our children were stolen from us in past generation, forcefully assimilated or secretly buried in boarding schools under the kill the Indian and save the Man ideologies, and it would seem that the task to erase them has not ended under Governor Kristi Noems administration and leadership, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier said in August.
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