Life on the Rez
Jamie Oppenheim | Jul 29, 2009 | Comments 4
Leah Carrick, 14, is a member of the Ojibwe Indian tribe and grew up on the Bay Mills Indian Community in Brimley, Mich. She currently attends the Ojibwe Charter School. She said she chose the 100-seat charter on the reservation as a refuge from the public school because her teachers were “cranky” in Brimley. She managed to escape the worst of the name calling her friends experienced there, because she is not automatically recognizable as an American Indian child. Leah takes us inside her home to show us what she loves about rural life on the reservation and hints at her hopes for the future.
Filed Under: Michigan • Reshaping Communities
My English is not good, not too much to see to understand. But thank you to share with me
Heyy Jamie,
I loved the video. Thanks for taken the time to come out here to these reservation’s and showing what it is like here and that we are not just a little stupid school like the other people around say. Well just to let you know not all the children/people on the reservation are farmers like me.(: That is only cause i live on the farms of the reservation. Well thanks again.
Hi!
Usually when i see a blog i read through it and move on, however this one was trully a great 1, i thought i would take the time to give you thanx for such a wonderful blog post.
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