Nola's Courtyard Brewery owner triggered by Kehoe-France's camp program

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Scott Wood said he was skimming the documents for his 5-year-old son's summer camp recently when he came upon a term that struck him as "off." The Courtyard Brewery owner wondered if he was being oversensitive over the program's use of the word "redskin," but then he also noticed the word "squaw" as he looked at the documents. Wood said camp documents showed various offensive and stereotypical terms related to Indigenous People and Native Americans were being used to label different parts of the Kehoe-France Children Center Summer Camp in Metairie. Wood said by phone Friday (June 8) that the use of the "absolutely horrific term" squaw hit him immediately.

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NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune obtained Kehoe-France program emails and documents from Wood that indicate the program uses terms ranging from the aforementioned slurs to phrases like "Feather Boys" and tribe names such as Navajos. The use of the terms, which are used by the program to describe different camp groups, have been criticized in the United States because of the historic devastation of Native American tribes and cultures by European settlers. "The main problem I have with it is it's indoctrinating children in the system of oppression by making it cute. It's the Disneyfication of racism, and we're still doing it in 2018. It just kills me," Wood said.

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Wood said the school can resolve this issue by changing the names of the groups being used to describe the children. He also said the school should educate current students and their parents, and perhaps previous enrollees of the school and camp, about oppressive language.

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