“The subtle acts of dehumanization that Indigenous people have experienced over time, like forced hair-cutting, is part of colonization…When you cut it by force, you're essentially trying to say that we are inhuman and that that we are just your livestock, essentially.”
'My Powerful Hair,' a new children's book by author
@CaroleLindstrom and illustrator Steph Littlebird, conveys the importance of hair in Native American culture despite the enduring traumas of the federal boarding school era.
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