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‘Invisibilized’: California lawmaker’s bill aims for better count of Indigenous students
ASSEMBLYMEMBER JAMES RAMOS has a persistent memory from his childhood in San Bernardino County. A teacher at his elementary school played a drum song and asked students to stand up if they were Native American and interpret the song for the class. “That’s not our culture,” Ramos told his teacher. He grew up on the […] The post ‘Invisibilized’: California lawmaker’s bill aims for better count of Indigenous students appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, ‘Invisibilized’: California lawmaker’s bill aims for better count of Indigenous students, ASSEMBLYMEMBER JAMES RAMOS has a persistent memory from his childhood in San Bernardino County. A teacher at his elementary school played a drum song and asked students to stand up if they were Native American and interpret the song for the class. “That’s not our culture,” Ramos told his teacher. He grew up on the […] The post ‘Invisibilized’: California lawmaker’s bill aims for better count of Indigenous students appeared first on Local News Matters .
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