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Salon
Salon
Politics
Bryant Furlow

NM schools' harsh treatment of Natives

One chilly March afternoon, dozens of Navajo children spilled out of their middle school to play in the snow before heading home. Students in jackets and parkas can be seen on grainy security camera footage chasing and pushing one another to the ground.

The next day, the principal called one of the children into her office. "She said I was expelled," the child said in an interview, looking at his feet as he sat with his grandmother on their living room couch. "We were just playing around."

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