2 posts tagged ‘native americans’
A Lakota Playwright’s Take on Thanksgiving
The New Yorker,
“The Thanksgiving Play” is a comedy on an awkward subject, and a sendup of liberal good intentions. The staff writer Vinson Cunningham speaks with the playwright Larissa FastHorse.
Kansas school forces 8-year-old Native American student to cut hair
Boing Boing,
An 8-year-old Wyandotte Nation boy was ordered to cut his hair short by R.V. Haderlein Elementary school in Kansas's Girard School District. His mother did so after being told by Joni Benso, assistant principal at the school, that no exemptions to male dress codes would be made for religious or tribal reasons and that "she needed to cut his hair over the weekend or he would be sent home." — Read the rest