From the Los Angeles Times:
In all his school years, Skokomish tribe member Denny Hurtado heard almost nothing about the history of his own people, aside from cursory mentions of Indians on Thanksgiving and Columbus Day.
“From the eyes of history,” Hurtado said, “we were mostly invisible.”
That could change if state legislators pass a bill that would require all public schools to teach Native American history. It would affect every grade in which Washington state or U.S. history was taught.
The measure, proposed by a Native American lawmaker, has received overwhelming support in the state Legislature. Its passage would make Washington one of a handful of states — including Montana, New Mexico and Wisconsin — with such a law.
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But in recent weeks, the bill has run into opposition, and the most vocal criticisms have come from an unexpected source: Native Americans.
Several prominent but federally unrecognized local tribes — among them the Duwamish, Snohomish and Chinook — say the measure would exclude them from school curricula and would, in time, result in erasing them from history.