The ACLU of Maine has conducted a survey of Maine schools and discovered many are failing to enforce a decades-old law requiring students to be taught about Native American history.
on their compliance with the law. The Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission also joined in the report.
The Maine House approved the bill that would have amended the settlement in April, but the Maine Senate never gave a final vote because of a threatened veto by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. Protesters gather at the Maine State House on April 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine, to advocate for tribal sovereignty laws.
The agency recently hired an educator to lead the work of creating lessons for the state’s online lesson sharing website for teachers from kindergarten toAcross the country, there have been recent gains in teaching students about Native Americans, with new requirements in states such as Connecticut, North Dakota and Oregon.
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