If journalism is “the first rough draft of history” what should journalists do about efforts to erase our history? Reporting Right has been thinking a lot about this after reading Medicine River, A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, a scathing account of our nation’s efforts to “educate” young Native Americans in the early 1900’s.
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Un-Erasing History
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If journalism is “the first rough draft of history” what should journalists do about efforts to erase our history? Reporting Right has been thinking a lot about this after reading Medicine River, A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, a scathing account of our nation’s efforts to “educate” young Native Americans in the early 1900’s.