School apologizes after making Native American child sing about Christians soothing the savage 'red man'

The superintendent for a California school district has apologized and removed a song from its elementary school curriculum in response to the objections of a fourth-grade student, and member of Wukchumni tribe, who found the song’s lyrics offensive to Native Americans, Native News Online reports.

Last month, 10-year-old Alex Fierro returned home from his day at Shannon Ranch Elementary School, and announced that a song he’d learned in class had offended him so profoundly he wouldn’t sing the words out loud — even to his mom, Debra Fierro. But when Alex brought his mother a printed copy of the lyrics to “Twenty-One Missions” a few weeks later, she was so alarmed she almost immediately alerted leaders in both her tribal community and the Visalia Unified School District.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/school-apologizes-after-making-native-american-child-sing-about-christians-soothing-the-savage-red-man/