When Ivey-Camille ManyBeads Tso was in fifth grade at school in Flagstaff, Arizona, a teacher made her sit at a separate table along with all the other Indigenous Navajo students. ‘She gave us all third-grade homework because she didn’t think we could do anything higher than that. It’s a border town; there’s just a lot of racism,’ she says.
‘The teacher also refused to let me test [for] the gifted programme because, she said, it would be impossible for me to be a gifted student.’ However, a short while later, aged just 13, Ivey-Camille made a film that won 11 awards and was shown in 90 film festivals.
