Sounds like we had a very similar experience in elementary school. I remember her teaching about cruel punishments and essentially not having a way to escape.Īll that to say, the beginning of the report sounded like Native people were living in beautiful missions and helping with gardening and at the end I made it very clear that they were there against their will, in horrible conditions, and being exploited by a group of people who didn’t see them as fully human. So not all of my education came from school, but I do remember my teacher also taught some of the truth, though not enough by any means. I do recall learning more about this time period outside of school, different library trips with my mom, etc etc. What’s interesting is that you can see the shift in my perspective/understanding of the reality in how I was describing the relationship between the missionaries and the captured Native people. But I don’t think the real real real of it is discussed as it should be - mainly the whole, eventual US-backed genocide thing 🤷🏽‍♀️Ī few years back, I found the report that I wrote alongside my mission project - I wrote it over the course of the entire Mission history curriculum. it was and continues to be an active genocide). I think there are a few schools that actually go through the effort of teaching the reality of the horrors of Spanish missions and what the US government did to Native Americans (e.g. It’s actually mind blowing to think about as an adult. I always talk about this part of our statewide education and how it was a massive, decades long indoctrination of children with white supremacist propaganda.

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