| Published November 5, 2021 |
Minnesota recently committed to $1.3 million over two years for Indigenous education. Students will be able to learn a more accurate history of the Indigenous peoples in Minnesota schools. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor and White Earth Band of Ojibwe member Peggy Flanagan joins the Counter Stories crew to talk about this historic move.
Onamia high schools-these two girls were calling us rez rats and one of them two girls friends said image going to a native school and we did tell on them two girls which lead into a meeting and they were making terrible lies telling the school principal we called them “white girls and crackers”which we didn’t but the school didn’t do nothing about it they were trying to have me and my cousin in school suspension and the principal and other staff kept saying I’m tired this all so unnecessary which kinda pissed me off but I feel like they could’ve handled this more important