‘Assimilation’ playwright flips the script on Native history

“Assimilation” playwright Jack Dalton and actor Tendal Mann. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
In a dystopian future, Western civilization has crumbled and indigenous people are in control. That’s the premise of Jack Dalton’s play “Assimilation,” now touring Alaska. It flips the history of boarding schools with whites violently assimilated into Native culture.
A tyrannical character know as Elder pinches a student by the ear and leads him to his desk.
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