Will ‘patriotic’ indoctrination be the next attack on Native American schoolchildren?
- Donald Trump issued an executive order mandating patriotic education in schools nationwide.
- The order followed Joe Biden's formal apology for federal boarding schools' destruction of Native culture.
- The order targets K-12 schools and seeks to eliminate federal funding for discriminatory treatment by April 29.
- Jason Dropik wrote, "The truth is at stake," urging protection for tribal history inclusion efforts.
- Experts fear the order will undermine progress and revert to harmful assimilationist practices.
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Will ‘patriotic’ indoctrination be the next attack on Native American schoolchildren?
Soon after Donald Trump returned to the White House, he issued an executive order that some fear could become an assimilationist tool reminiscent of 19th century policies targeting Native Americans.
This is what they did in the U.S. in the 2020s . . .
On January 29, 2025, President Donald John Trump’s White House issued an Executive Order designed to end what it purported to be “Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” by banning 381 books from any public K-12 library in the U.S. The E.O.’s first section stated the following: “Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admirat...
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