Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

Radio, part of the NPR Network.

What's good? You're listening to Code Switch, the show about race and identity from NPR.

I'm Gene Dunby. And real quick, I want you to think back to when you were in school, like, you know, kindergarten

through 12th grade, and try to remember all the books that you read that involved Native Americans,

indigenous people. Think really hard, like, whether they had native characters in them,

or they were written by native authors.

Just native anything?

Are you coming up with anything? For me, personally, we didn't actually read any books by indigenous people from the United States, like at all.

And the ones that depicted indigenous people were, I mean, you had the last Mohicans, which regularly

refers to native people at savages, has all kinds of stereotypes about Indians being violent

and treacherous and eventually extinct and disappearing.

The pale faces are masters of the earth

and the time of the Red Men has not yet come again.

My day has been too long.

Yikes. My day has been too long.

Yikes.

Well, today we're diving back into our series on book bands, particularly the way that the current

wave of book bands by conservative activist groups has affected

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