Navajo Students Sound Off History Provides Perspective to Sfis Demolition

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In early August, reporter Tom Sharpe began reporting on the destruction of some historic buildings at the Santa Fe Indian School property on Cerrillos Road that had taken the city by surprise.

At about the same time, Emilie Sasson, a Bay-area Californian in her first year of teaching at the Tse'Yi'Gai High School on the Navajo Reservation at Pueblo Pintado near Chaco Canyon, was planning to integrate lessons on the Native American boarding-school system into her New Mexico history classes.

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Navajo Students Sound Off History Provides Perspective to Sfis Demolition

"None of the students was familiar with that history, and that surprised me," she said. "I happened to be in Santa Fe when I saw the stories and thought how great the timing was!"

Sasson used Sharpe's stories in the classroom as points of discussion, and she encouraged the students to write to the reporter with their opinions on the controversial issues raised by the tearing down of those buildings.

Many of the students did write to ...

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