She now looked at me with a confused look. He forced people out of their homes onto ships and made them cross the big ocean to lands they've never seen before. There they were sold off to other people much like you buy a piece of gum at the store. Her eyes were wide opened now yearning for more information. Before I finished my sentence a flash went zooming by me, crashing through the screen door, running down the wooden stairs to the swingset we had out back.
Young minds are so impressionable.
As a Native American parent, I continuously do battle with an educational system that hardly seems to budge from its old ways. Every year there is a discussion about Christopher Columbus. Every year I see paper headbands and feathers adorned on the heads of boys and girls at my daughters school around Thanksgiving . Regardless, I am still shocked and appalled with what todays educational systems are teaching not only my child, but also the minds of the future leaders of the United States. Oh sure it was already inhabited, but these inhabitants were barbaric.