They’re trying to shut down the Oceti Sakowin language immersion schools again, this time calling it a “budget realignment.” Same tactic they used in the 90s when they defunded health clinics and called it efficiency. Our kids don’t need another English-speaking foster program that loses their names, their kinship lines, their way of listening. We taught Lakota through starvation, through boarding schools, through silence. You don’t get to call it a line item when it’s the last thread holding a people together. I see the same papers signed by men who’ve never been west of the Missouri, never mind the treaty lines older than their nation. Bring the pencils back. Bring the books. Or get out of the way.
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