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Scenario

How to explain erasure to the children being erased

My daughter came home crying because her teacher said Native Americans lived in the past tense and she asked me why people think we are dead.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent must find words for the ongoing violence of being disappeared while still existing.

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Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous rights and land justice?”

Peri

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