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More than 50 educators from Minnesota, U.S. gathered at the Grand Portage State Park welcome center, learning how Chippewa turned this land from a private property into a reservation land and a state park. The week-long Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators was created by Darlene St. Clair of St. Cloud State University to help educators learn how to teach Native content. Most Minnesota teachers say access to Native tribes would increase their confidence in incorporating the content into their teaching. Workshops are held on Minnesota’s 11 Native reservations, and educators, elders, artists, and authors share information about treaties, sovereignty, and the reservation's history, current events, language and culture. "Schools have been used to erase Native people," St. Clair said. "We’re using those same institutions to address that erasure, to halt it and to sort of repair it and to restore Native people as the indigenous peoples of this land and that we should be central to all of these conversations."
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