This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
The Navajo Nation's Own 'Trail of Tears'
Heard this amazing story on National Public Radio the other day. It was such a powerful account of the Navaho Nation's own "Trail of Tears." It provides fresh meaning to the concept of sacred ground and the sacrifice of ancestors. What's particularly poignant, if not chilling, is an interrupted speech by Senator Domenici as a tribal member begins to wail during a commemoration event. William Faulkner's words come to mind: “The past is not dead. It is not even past.” Indeed, this program illustrates how the past is an open wound, about which for many, healing has only just begun. -Angela
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