An Unspoken History: Why 87% of US Schools Don't Teach This
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For most Americans, the story of Native peoples ends somewhere around 1900. One chapter. A first Thanksgiving. Then silence. That silence was never an accident. It was a choice.
An entire people, written out of the room where memory is made.
The National Congress of American Indians found that 87 percent of state history standards never mention Native people after the year 1900. Twenty seven states do not require Native history to be taught at all.
So generation after generation grows up believing the hardest chapters simply do not exist. The truth was not lost. It was left out.
These are the numbers the textbooks skipped.
Behind every number was a name, a family, a future.
When a history is erased, the harm does not stay in the past.
For Native students, it means classrooms that render their own people invisible. For everyone else, it lets a comfortable myth survive. The myth that all of this is finished, when the systems built in those years are still standing.
There is one thing left that any of us can still do. We can refuse to forget.
If the schools will not tell it, we will carry it ourselves.
Every design in our collection is a story you can wear. Drawn with reverence, in partnership with Native artists, each one holds a piece of history that someone tried to bury. Not a slogan. A tribute.
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They tried to erase a people from memory. But we are still here. And so is the story.
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