Jason Lee Middle School

By Puyallup Tribal News Staff A name change of Tacoma Public Schools’ oldest school, Jason Lee Middle School, is part of the community’s efforts to honor local history and acknowledge the past. Since last summer, many Tacoma community members have expressed concerns with Lee’s past with the creation Indian boarding schools, which caused generational trauma among many Indigenous people. Lee arrived in the area as a missionary in the 1830s and quickly started to assimilate local Indigenous people by stripping them of their customs, culture, and language as well as cutting their hair short to fit into the white culture.…