Posted on Jun 29, 2021
Uncovering The 'Unspoken Traumas' Of Native American Boarding Schools
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For generations, indigenous children in the United States and Canada were forcibly sent to boarding schools to assimilate. Exactly what happened at those schools is still being uncovered.
Last week, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, just one month after more than 200 unmarked graves were found at another school in British Columbia.
Speaking at the virtual conference of the National Congress of American Indians last week, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, announced the department would open its own investigation of these boarding schools.
“I come from ancestors who endured the horrors of Indian boarding school assimilation policies carried out by the same department that I now lead,” Sec. Haaland said.“To address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools and to promote spiritual and emotional healing in our communities, we must shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past, no matter how hard it will be.”
What do we know about what happened at these schools? And what will this investigation mean for the indigenous communities directly impacted?
Last week, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, just one month after more than 200 unmarked graves were found at another school in British Columbia.
Speaking at the virtual conference of the National Congress of American Indians last week, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, announced the department would open its own investigation of these boarding schools.
“I come from ancestors who endured the horrors of Indian boarding school assimilation policies carried out by the same department that I now lead,” Sec. Haaland said.“To address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools and to promote spiritual and emotional healing in our communities, we must shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past, no matter how hard it will be.”
What do we know about what happened at these schools? And what will this investigation mean for the indigenous communities directly impacted?
Uncovering The 'Unspoken Traumas' Of Native American Boarding Schools
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CRT = Critical Race Facts *{Aint no damn theory, GTFOH} :
1.) US INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL HISTORY :
“The truth about the US Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. There were more than 350 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools across the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. Indian children were forcibly abducted by government agents, sent to schools hundreds of miles away, and beaten, starved, or otherwise abused when they spoke their native languages.”
SOURCE :
https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/
2.) US to review Native American boarding schools' dark history
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland outlined initiative while addressing members of National Congress of American Indians
Associated Press6 days ago
SOURCE :
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-native-american-boarding-schools
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
1.) US INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL HISTORY :
“The truth about the US Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. There were more than 350 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools across the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. Indian children were forcibly abducted by government agents, sent to schools hundreds of miles away, and beaten, starved, or otherwise abused when they spoke their native languages.”
SOURCE :
https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/
2.) US to review Native American boarding schools' dark history
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland outlined initiative while addressing members of National Congress of American Indians
Associated Press6 days ago
SOURCE :
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-native-american-boarding-schools
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
US Indian Boarding School History - The National Native American Boarding School Healing...
The truth about the US Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. There were more than 350 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools across the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. Indian children were forcibly abducted by government agents, sent to schools…
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IMHO, what ‘we’ did to Native Americans was absolutely atrocious and appalling...their history deserves to be told too
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The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded utterance of the word racism was by a man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902. Pratt was railing against the evils of racial segregation.
Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism.
Although Pratt might have been the first person to inveigh against racism and its deleterious effects by name, he is much better-remembered for a very different coinage: Kill the Indian...save the man.
Source :
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/05/260006815/the-ugly-fascinating-history-of-the-word-racism
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism.
Although Pratt might have been the first person to inveigh against racism and its deleterious effects by name, he is much better-remembered for a very different coinage: Kill the Indian...save the man.
Source :
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/05/260006815/the-ugly-fascinating-history-of-the-word-racism
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
The Ugly, Fascinating History Of The Word 'Racism'
The first recorded utterance of the word was by a man named Richard Henry Pratt, whose legacy among Native Americans and others is deeply contentious. His story illustrates problems with how the word is used today.
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