By: AK

Thank you for this article. I’m learning to be a teacher this year, and the first part of our education was a crash course in multicultural education; it makes me read your words, and imagine how to help my future students — the white ones, the Native American ones — learn about the world they will grow up in.

Sometimes I try to imagine a more hopeful future society, where there has been some kind of reconciliation and apology for the genocide, for slavery, for the stolen land, where some kind of respect for the beautiful hurt continent, and for each other, just _exists_.

And of course I wasn’t successful in imagining that: I am not the one who will successfully envision that future, except very naievely.

But I wonder if someone else, sometime, is going to be able to find and hold that vision, somehow, and move us all towards it.