The assignment says the child's 'Native American name' should reflect their personality, special talent or interests, followed by examples like 'Bright Smile,' 'Running Deer' and 'Princess Dancing Flower.'
"Every year you think: 'Oh, we're still doing the same kind of assignments," she said."These teachers are still giving these assignments that trivialize and denigrate our actual names and our actual ceremonies.""As part of our study of the Native Americans and the first Thanksgiving, your child will need your help with a special project," the assignment reads.
"Every year, Native parents share photos of these 'naming' projects they are asked to do," Reese tweeted."Teachers: stop doing this. It trivializes something of tremendous significance to native families and communities. It isn't cute. It isn't educational. IT IS WRONG." "That's over 500 different communities and histories and ways of naming," she added."American society wants to shrink all of that in order to make one 'Native American way of naming' and that just does not exist because of the diversity of who we are."
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