'We’re not in the 1960s anymore, she should know better!”
, director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies at Cal State San Bernardino.
“Yesterday a Native American student filmed this video in his math class. After several minutes of the teacher 'war hooping & tomahawk chopping’ the student began filming because he, ‘felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record,’” reads from Native Studies consultant Akalei Brown. “We need to end discrimination and violence against indigenous youth in schools! We’re not in the 1960s anymore, she should know better!”Other posts on social media allege that the teacher has used this costume and practice repeatedly in the past, including a photo taken from a 2012 yearbook. “These behaviors are completely unacceptable and an offensive depiction of the vast and expansive Native American cultures and practices.
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