When will it be our turn?

I took a Native American literature class last semester and yet it still amazes me how mistreated the native Americans were at boarding schools. Honestly, I had no idea about their mistreatment until I took the class and then again from the reading (“Beyond the politics of inclusion – Violence against women of color and human rights” by Andrea Smith). Sure what had happened to these people is nothing to be proud of, but I think that it is still a vital time in our countries history that should be included in the history books. We can use our past to learn for our future. If we just ignore our mistakes then how are we going to change and better ourselves? It makes me wonder if there are other events that occurred in our nation’s history that we do not here about in detail – such as the concentration camps the Japanese American citizens were put in after Pearl Harbor. Yes the camps were probably not as bad as the Jewish concentration camps, but I am sure that the Japanese Americans were not treated real well and yet we hear about the camps but never hear about them in detail. Is it just too all those people who suffered to just be forgotten, simply because our nation doesn’t want to admit to having a dark past? No, it isn’t fair they should have every right to share their story and let it be told in our history classes. We talk about how evil and unjust Hitler or any other genocide was and yet we forget to examine ourselves. What about our history? When will we own it and come to terms that we are not perfect?