The chair of the state Board of Education claims he needed more time to assess the curriculum without “drama or controversy.”
According to Texas’ fourth-grade social studies standards, Indigenous peoples from Texas, including the Lipan Apache, Comanches, and Caddo, exist only in the past tense. Students study their way of life when the tribal nationsThese are but a few of the many misconceptions about American Indians that Kelly Tudor, a Lipan Apache, has found in Texas’ curricular standards, known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills .
For the past four years, Tudor has been working with a committee of educators, professors, and members of 14 different Native Nations to develop the “It’s really not an acceptable excuse. There’s been plenty of time to review the standards and reach out to all those folks who have been working hard at this,” said Aicha Davis, SBOE representative of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “I’m just extremely disappointed that this is another hurdle that’s been thrown at this process.”request for comments. In December, Abbott appointed the first-year board member over others with more experience.
Lanette Aguero, Grand Prairie ISD’s K-12 social studies facilitator who spearheaded the development of the American-Indian/Native Studies course, said the district’s students have embraced the class since they’ve offered it over the past three years. It wasn’t until the 1980s, after waves of American Indian self-determination movements, that members of the Lipan Apache started to feel safe to reclaim their identity in public. In 2009, the state government recognized the Lipan Apache as a Native Nation, but the federal government still has not. Tudor’s work as an Indigenous educator is unfinished, but she says she’s seen a change in how the public views American Indians.
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