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Transcript: Jessica Antonio

Reservation schools teach Navajo language and culture, but they are academically two years behind city schools

[Antonio:]
When I got off the reservation and was in the city, I got to see the difference between the level of education, I guess, and it wasn’t the same. I was two years ahead in the city than I was on the reservation, so I got to see the difference. I got to experience the different people that taught me, and on the reservation it was basically more language, more about being Navajo, being more tied to the culture, education, that knowledge which is not really, I guess, the federal government education standards that they usually—in public schools it's more history, science, math, English, and on the reservation it’s more culture-related—who you are, where you come from, your language, your culture.