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A school sees a lice check. Lakota people sense centuries of repression.
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A school sees a lice check. Lakota people sense centuries of repression.
- Chris Bowling Flatwater Free Press
- Sep 19, 2021
- Sep 19, 2021 Updated Oct 4, 2023
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Norma LeRoy, 36, left, and Alice Johnson, 42, right, hold their daughters ages 7 and 12 in Valentine City Park in Valentine on May 21. Leroy and Johnson say their daughters’ hair was cut at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools in 2020. They have filed a lawsuit against the school, saying the hair cutting violated Lakota religious and cultural beliefs. The school’s lawyers have attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, calling it a lice check and saying they have ended the practice for Lakota children.
- Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
LeRoy and Johnson’s two youngest daughters hug. The Flatwater Free Press isn’t identifying the children or the school secretary who snipped their hair.
- Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
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It’s early summer, and a Lakota woman stares into the trees, deep past the leaves and their shadows, her dark eyes misting up.
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Norma LeRoy, 36 (left) and Alice Johnson, 42 (right) hold their daughters ages 7 and 12 in Valentine on May 21. Leroy and Johnson say their daughters’ hair was cut at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools in 2020. They have filed a lawsuit against the school, saying the hair cutting violated Lakota religious and cultural beliefs and their civil rights. The school’s lawyers have attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, calling it a lice check and saying they have ended the practice for Lakota children.
Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
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Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, who founded the Carlisle Indian School and infamously said that, “...all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
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Lakota author and activist Zitkála-Šá pictured in 1898. As a girl, she was forcibly sheared. As an adult, she wrote of the experience: “I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit ... now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder.”
Photo courtesy of Smithsonian
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Native children at the United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1890. For more than a century, Native students’ long hair was routinely sheared at boarding schools. The hair cutting, part of an attempt to assimilate the students into white culture, violated Native religious and cultural beliefs, Native leaders say.
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Norma LeRoy, 36, left, and Alice Johnson, 42, right, hold their daughters ages 7 and 12 in Valentine City Park in Valentine on May 21. Leroy and Johnson say their daughters’ hair was cut at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools in 2020. They have filed a lawsuit against the school, saying the hair cutting violated Lakota religious and cultural beliefs. The school’s lawyers have attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, calling it a lice check and saying they have ended the practice for Lakota children.
- Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
Native children at the United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1890. For more than a century, Native students’ long hair was routinely sheared at boarding schools. The hair cutting, part of an attempt to assimilate the students into white culture, violated Native religious and cultural beliefs, Native leaders say.
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Norma LeRoy, 36 (left) and Alice Johnson, 42 (right) hold their daughters ages 7 and 12 in Valentine on May 21. Leroy and Johnson say their daughters’ hair was cut at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools in 2020. They have filed a lawsuit against the school, saying the hair cutting violated Lakota religious and cultural beliefs and their civil rights. The school’s lawyers have attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed, calling it a lice check and saying they have ended the practice for Lakota children.
- Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
LeRoy and Johnson’s two youngest daughters hug. The Flatwater Free Press isn’t identifying the children or the school secretary who snipped their hair.
- Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, who founded the Carlisle Indian School and infamously said that, “...all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
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Lakota author and activist Zitkála-Šá pictured in 1898. As a girl, she was forcibly sheared. As an adult, she wrote of the experience: “I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit ... now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder.”
- Photo courtesy of Smithsonian
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