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Old 07-25-2010, 03:40 PM   #112
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Originally Posted by Corkey View Post
Not many Native American Shaman who have teaching credentials. This is a huge problem, the white teacher can't teach what they don't know.
We recently had a white religion dept. head who was *teaching* a unit (gr. 12 World Religion) on Native religion(s). (I am sure she didn't know the multitude of different practices/beliefs for different tribes).

She had the students come into class with their faces painted, had them bang on some drums, and eat some desserts in simulation of her perception of a pow wow.

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