I'm native and I get angry at teachers for their inaccurate terms and history of my people. Should I correct the teachers?

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That’s a tough one; they can punish you (no matter how polite you are) by failing you if you do but if you don’t…

pick your battles, i guess? This is a choice I will have to make tomorrow :/

Thu, Nov 21st 2013 at 21 PM
  1. faerieincombatboots reblogged this from indigenous-rising
  2. poltersprite said: I’m in the same boat, an amstud teacher of mine uses slurs and incorrect terms for every group of natives we discuss, and she has this gross nostalgia/fetish for the Old West. I’m planning on talking to an administrator after I finish her class.
  3. mujer-y-resistencia said: Correct them! You cannot be complacent about who you are. If you don’t correct them, that will only perpetuate the mistakes and lies being told. Real information is more important than grades.
  4. bentolove said: Maybe you could somehow test their knowledge but in a ‘polite’ way? And hopefully they’ll realize how generalizing/bad they are? :C
  5. exxomoons said: i went through a similar dilemma…
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