Grand Prairie piloted the high school class, hoping Texas approves standards soon.
Stephen Silva Brave poses for a portrait with his notebook at Turner Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, on May 9, 2022. Silva Brave was part of a group that helped write the state's first ever Native American studies course for Grand Prairie ISD, and the notebook contains notes from their first meeting.Stephen Silva Brave learned about the rivalry between “cowboys and Indians” and how Christopher Columbus discovered the new world growing up in Texas schools.
It’s the latest ethnic studies class that will focus on the history and culture of a group that isn’t usually highlighted in state curriculum thoroughly.and African American Studies not long after, setting the template for similar classes. “They’d go to school and what they were being taught was that we were extinct, that there were no Indians in Texas [and] the ones that had been here were prehistoric people who were cannibals” Anderson said. “There were all kinds of inaccurate pieces of information.”
Hawana Huwuni Townsley breaks from a American Indian/Native Studies innovative course curriculum committee Zoom meeting for portraits on May 9, 2022 in Richardson, Texas. Huwuni wears jewelry from her mother on her neck and ears. “We wanted to break away from [the stereotypes of] noble savage, savage savage, the vanishing Indian – that they were no longer there,” Roemer said.“The more they can learn about other people they are going to be with, the better,” Romer said.
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