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Such a sad chapter in our nation's history.
Category: Finally. Better late than never.
The issue may be more of a priority in some places than others, depending on where one lives. It is a big deal in NM. There is also a cemetery of children in Albuquerque connected to the earlier days of the church run local boarding school. It is adjacent to what is now the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Canada has made more progress working with the Indigenous community. I have a Canadian friend who wrote a book about her experiences in the boarding school as a young child. She suffered immensely in self destructive ways as a young adult from the traumas of the boarding school. Then she chose to learn her tribal language, religion, traditions, customs - and is now a respected tribal elder who teaches all the same to the youth.
I have the impression that boarding schools, in modern times have become much different, having been acquainted with folks who have attended them. Even so the negative effects of trauma from those earlier times remains evident on the rez.
Category: Finally. Better late than never.
The issue may be more of a priority in some places than others, depending on where one lives. It is a big deal in NM. There is also a cemetery of children in Albuquerque connected to the earlier days of the church run local boarding school. It is adjacent to what is now the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Canada has made more progress working with the Indigenous community. I have a Canadian friend who wrote a book about her experiences in the boarding school as a young child. She suffered immensely in self destructive ways as a young adult from the traumas of the boarding school. Then she chose to learn her tribal language, religion, traditions, customs - and is now a respected tribal elder who teaches all the same to the youth.
I have the impression that boarding schools, in modern times have become much different, having been acquainted with folks who have attended them. Even so the negative effects of trauma from those earlier times remains evident on the rez.
Native children’s remains to be moved from Army cemetery
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"CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — For more than a century they were buried far from home, in a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College. Now they’re heading home.
The Army began disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks, with the children’s closest living relatives poised to take custody.
The disinterment process, which began over the weekend, is the fifth at Carlisle since 2017. More than 20 sets of Native remains were transferred to family members in earlier rounds.
The children had lived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where thousands of Native children were taken from their families and forced to assimilate to white society as a matter of U.S. policy — their hair cut and their clothing, language and culture stripped. More than 10,000 children from more than 140 tribes passed through the school between 1879 and 1918, including famous Olympian Jim Thorpe."...
"CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — For more than a century they were buried far from home, in a small cemetery on the grounds of the U.S. Army War College. Now they’re heading home.
The Army began disinterring the remains of eight Native American children who died at a government-run boarding school at the Carlisle Barracks, with the children’s closest living relatives poised to take custody.
The disinterment process, which began over the weekend, is the fifth at Carlisle since 2017. More than 20 sets of Native remains were transferred to family members in earlier rounds.
The children had lived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where thousands of Native children were taken from their families and forced to assimilate to white society as a matter of U.S. policy — their hair cut and their clothing, language and culture stripped. More than 10,000 children from more than 140 tribes passed through the school between 1879 and 1918, including famous Olympian Jim Thorpe."...
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