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I'm Asan Kwamey Jeffriesries and this is Teaching Hard History.

We're a production of Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

This is a special short episode about Teaching Tolerance's new film, The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors.

It was created by a unique team of filmmakers based in Alaska,

and I'm happy to have the assistant producer, Alice Glenn, here with me to talk about this

amazing film, which you can watch at tolerance.org slash forgotten slavery. Alice, how are you doing? It's great to be in conversation with you.

Hello, good afternoon. So nice to meet you. Uvanga Kahnik. My name is Alice Kahnik, Glenn. Kaniq is my

Inupak name, the tribe that I am from, the north slope of Alaska, Inubak.

You know, the film opens with Paula Peters, who talks about learning the history of Native peoples as a young girl from white teachers.

I can remember very vividly going into, I believe it was my second grade classroom.

We were being taught about Thanksgiving and the story of the friendly Indian.

And at that time, back in the 1960s, they didn't mention the Wampanog tribe by name.

They didn't mention Squanto by name.

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