Critical Race Theory

Teachers of the Oceti Sakowin Community Academy gift backpacks to their inaugural class of kindergarten students in September 2022. (Courtesy of NDN Collective)

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

BY: - April 18, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history […]