Posted on Jul 21, 2023
PAINFUL PAST: Documentary shines light on U.S. Native American boarding schools
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Native Americans know the ‘boarding school era’ of the 1800s all too well. Thousands of children—ripped from their homes by religious groups and the US Government. We revisit a local push to get answers--and ownership of an historic site—as we discuss a national documentary shining a light on another school designed for assimilation.
PAINFUL PAST: Documentary shines light on U.S. Native American boarding schools
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Native Americans
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Fairway
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It is a painful past...native Americans were not treated with the dignity and respect of a human being. Some say it was in the name of religion but it was all about fear and greed. Thanks for the post.
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PO3 Justin Bowen
Since when is intentional cultural genocide as part of the "Kill the Indian in Him, Save the Man" policy considered a "good intention"? Perhaps at the same time that slavery in the US and the Holocaust were considered to be petsonally beneficial to Blacks and Jews (and gypsies and others) because it taught them useful useful skills that they could later use to...
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MSgt Dale Johnson
PO3 Justin Bowen - IMHO, many of those schools ran by Christian Organizations thought they were helping when in fact they were not.
Also you need to look and evaluate History from the perspective of the time, Slavery was a horrible wrong perpetrated on many people throughout the world but that is the way the world worked from before written history.
Someone was always subjugating others who were weaker, lands were taken by force and usually the inhabitants forced to work the land for those who conquered them, or they were pushed off for the people of whoever conquered them.
Also you need to look and evaluate History from the perspective of the time, Slavery was a horrible wrong perpetrated on many people throughout the world but that is the way the world worked from before written history.
Someone was always subjugating others who were weaker, lands were taken by force and usually the inhabitants forced to work the land for those who conquered them, or they were pushed off for the people of whoever conquered them.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""This history that happened to us, you know, there's been attempts over and over again to whitewash it, saying that it didn't happen. And it did happen. So it's best for America to learn what actually happened," he said. "And then they can understand our plight, our situation on reservations, but then also understand that... we want to be self-sufficient. We don't want to be dependent on our federal government. We want to move forward."
...""This history that happened to us, you know, there's been attempts over and over again to whitewash it, saying that it didn't happen. And it did happen. So it's best for America to learn what actually happened," he said. "And then they can understand our plight, our situation on reservations, but then also understand that... we want to be self-sufficient. We don't want to be dependent on our federal government. We want to move forward."
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