Storytelling to Overcome Stereotypes

Lisa Billy

Lisa Billy recollects unsettling memories of childhood stereotypes she and other Native American children endured in school, and expresses her belief that storytelling can be used to eliminate theses stereotypes and other forms of bullying in present-day society.

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