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Scientists to mingle with Latino and Native American youths

Linda | 11:37 a.m. April 13, 2008

Being an American Indian of US and Mexican Indian/Latina descent, I am very hopeful for our youth after reading this article. During these times with most people in the U.S. treating "Latinos"(who are native to America)as terrorist, our youth take it in and act out negatively. It is so good to hear of a group willing to acknowledge the intellegence our native youth possess.
I'd alway been excited about science/research. I was very disappointed when signing up for freshman high school classes and was told I couldn't take the classes I had chosen because "...they are college prep classes and you won't be going to college." I am now sixty and still fighting the effect of those words even though I turned out okay.

What a world it would be if all were treated with respect and equality. American Indian/Mexican American Indian history is full of scientific knowledge being interpreted by European Americans thinking like Europeans. What a concept to have scholars who think like native Americans, I just hope they don't train them to think European, what a loss that would be.
There are so many opportunities for learning wasted in ignorance.

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