Indigenous community members speak out following racism allegations in Iowa City school district
, 2023-01-29 21:25:01,
Parents and students who have experienced discrimination hope things will improve after meeting with the city and school district.
Mary Krebs sits for coffee with Seques Nobs and her daughter at the Bread Garden Market in Iowa City on Saturday, January 28, 2023. Nobs and Krebs are mothers of several Indigenous children who have had negative experiences with representation of Indigenous culture and recently brought concerns to the Iowa City Human Rights Commission.
Sikowis Nobiss, a Plains Cree/Saulteaux member of George Gordon’s First Nation, enrolled all of her children in the Iowa City Community School District. Every child had a negative experience regarding representation of Indigenous culture, from inaccurate curricula to offensive school programmes.
The breaking point for Newbies came in late 2022 when she watched a school program at Schmick Elementary School. During the programme, her daughter and other children were asked to dance to traditional powwow music used by the indigenous people.
“I couldn’t handle it anymore. I was like, ‘This is too much because the kids were literally playing Hindi. This is really, really, really not good,'” Nobis said. To see my daughter in her skirt and her hair ties and her braided hair and stand in the back of it all is really uncomfortable and awkward.”
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