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Podcast: The 7Th Generation Podcast
Episode: Cultural Violence, and Protecting Native Children at Clovis Unified School District
Description: Dr. B sits down with the mother of the Native child whose hair was threatened to be cut by a substitute teacher in Clovis Unified School District. This emotional conversation dives deep into her firsthand account of what happened, how the school responded, and the broader history of discrimination her family has faced within the district.As a survivor of intergenerational trauma from the boarding school era, she shares how this incident retraumatized not just her son—but her entire family. We discuss the sacredness of hair in Native culture, the psychological impact on In...