I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

