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Maureen Modlish's avatar

Thank you. I remember what a staff member at the Native American Rights Fund said several years ago toward the end of the Indian Trust Funds litigation: "Social Security is a trust fund." You're still here, and I'm so glad. I hear some of the voices of my ancestors, but I hear the Native American voices more clearly now, and they come together with the best voices of my ancestors. Thank you for speaking.

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Carol Taylor Boyd's avatar

Thank you for the lesson about your culture and history. The first time I learned anything about forcing indigenous children to attend boarding schools to indoctrinate them in white culture, was about 1994. I was taking a Sociology course. I was in my 40s. There's so much of our shared history that Americans know nothing about.

We are rightfully worried about the dumbing down of our national education system. But as an old person I can tell you, there's so much that I wasn't taught either!

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