A Native School

This small rural school once stood as the heart of a Native community determined to preserve both knowledge and identity. Within its modest walls, children learned lessons far beyond the printed page—each word, each number, a quiet act of self-determination. Teachers carried forward traditions of strength and pride, ensuring that education became not an erasure, but a continuation. Even in its silence, the building feels alive with that same spirit—an enduring reminder that learning was, and still is, an expression of belonging.