By Chimdindu Okafor — 2022
While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.
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I want my daughter to see that an Indigenous way of life isn’t an alternative lifestyle but a priority. It is essential, then, that I return to the parenting principles of my ancestors and consciously integrate Indigenous kinship practices into her childhood.
Irina Gonzalez is teaching her son to embrace the beauty and diversity that exists within the Latinx community, not the stereotypes she was exposed to in her own childhood.
Most public schools in the U.S. teach shamefully little about Indigenous history, and the contributions of Indigenous women remain notably left out.