MO SB1045

Missouri State Board of Education would be required to mandate Native American history curriculum in grades 7-12, covering pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations, Columbus's actions in the Caribbean, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Trail of Tears (46,000 Cherokee removed, approximately 4,600 deaths), the Wounded Knee massacre, and the Homestead Act of 1862 (270 million acres transferred).

Curriculum must include specific claims about population losses: approximately 55 million indigenous deaths across the Americas and 12 million in present-day U.S. territory following European colonization, with 300,000 indigenous Hispaniola residents eliminated within 100 years of Columbus's arrival.

African American history requirements would span from ancient African civilizations through modern day, including detailed coverage of slavery practices (breeding, rape, mutilation, family separation), the 12 U.S. presidents who owned slaves, and the estimate that 50 million Africans died during the 400-year slave trade.

Required Supreme Court cases include Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada; events include the Tulsa and East St. Louis race massacres, over 4,000 lynchings between 1877-1950, the Tuskegee experiment, and COINTELPRO.

Curriculum must address the Emancipation Proclamation's limitations (did not apply to Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, or Union-controlled Confederate states), the Thirteenth Amendment's exception allowing enslavement for criminal conviction, resulting Black Codes, and civil rights legislation including the Voting Rights Act and Fair Housing Act.