The mystery of the people of the New World could have been solved a long time ago if the original Americans and some today that feel the only way to have a great country is if we deny there was ever something here before us. In the article "Indigenous Resistance and Racist Schooling on the Borders of Empires: Coast Salish Cultural Survival" by Michael Marker, we grasp just a small notion of what happened in the 60s and 70s that diminished the already scarce knowledge of the indigenous people of the North American continent. It is shameful that a nation built on free beliefs and religion could have tried their hardest to keep Native Americans from teaching and showing their ancestries about the culture. From outlawing ceremonies to requiring children to attend public schools, we have weeded out much of the knowledge of the wonderful land before the settlers.
It is because of this, the severity of the mass epidemic that killed most of the people on the continent will never be recovered and Native Americans will shun out everyone from their culture but themselves, a terrible fate for a once peaceful community.
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