Voting For Future Generations: Education

The Obama administration launched the Generation Indigenous imitative last year to increase support for Native students across the country. In the first part of Elections 2016: Voting For Future Generations, Native educator Amidooli “Ami” Pacheco (Kewa) shares his thoughts on the connections between education and elections.

Pacheco gave a talk on Indigenous education at a local TEDxABQED event in March: An Indigenous Student’s Perspective: History, Culture, and Language. We also travel to the Santa Fe Indian School to hear from students who participated in a mock election based on the 2016 presidential campaigns.

This program is produced by New Mexico PBS for a presentation of Vision Maker Media with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting