Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-5024640-20141127020104/@comment-5024640-20141127113113

Kaguya Clansman wrote: Uzushio was affiliated with Konoha since its founding. The Uzumaki are blood relatives of the Senju, and as a sign of trust, all standard Konoha uniforms have a red whirlpool on the backs and shoulders.

I've been confused about something for a while:

Why did no one seem to know anything about the Uzumaki clan when Naruto was a child? None of his peers seem to ever show any knowledge of the Uzumaki clan when they were growing up. Was all information on the Uzumaki just omitted from the Academy's textbooks and history classes? I believe it was for their own protection. Uzushio was destroyed because of Uzumaki clan's sealing powers, that were feared by the entire shinobi world. Naruto was in Konohagakure so he was protected by such outsider attacks, but he was the jinchuriki of Kurama as well. The elder people from the villages of course knew about the Uzumaki (and possibly despised them) but at the beginning of the series, they were viewed as extinct, so probably the Academy curriculum focused on existent shinobi clans.