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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 11, 2022, 8:07 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-counts-indian-boarding-school-160002323.html
[quote]At least 500 Native American, Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian children died while attending Indian boarding schools
run or supported by the U.S. government, a highly anticipated
Interior Department report said Wednesday. The report identified
over 400 schools and more than 50 gravesites and said more
gravesites would likely be found.
The report is the first time in U.S. history that the government
has attempted to comprehensively research and acknowledge the
magnitude of the horrors it inflicted on Native American
children for decades. But it falls well short of some
independent estimates of deaths and does not address how the
children died or who was responsible. The report also sheds
little new light on the physical and sexual abuse generations of
Indigenous children endured at the schools, which were open for
more than 150 years, starting in the early 1800s.
...
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's grandparents were both 8 years
old when they were forced to attend boarding school, she said
Wednesday at a news conference. “Many children like them never
made it back to their homes. Each of those children is a missing
family member, a person who was not able to live out their
purpose on this Earth because they lost their lives as part of
this terrible system,” Haaland said, holding back tears.
The trauma caused by federal Indian boarding school policies —
including the separation of children as young as 4 years old
from their families — dates back generations and is ongoing,
Halaand said. The report is the first step toward understanding
what assistance people need to overcome that trauma, she said,
including mental health services and language revitalization,
since children were abused and forbidden from speaking their
native languages at the schools.
"Even though it’s ceased or stopped in many places, the vestiges
of it is still continuing today," said James LaBelle, Sr., who
is Inupiaq and a vice president of the National Native American
Boarding School Healing Coalition, a nonprofit that helped
compile the report and advocates for survivors of Indian
boarding schools.
...
“The United States doesn’t even know how many Indian students
went through these institutions — let alone how many actually
died in them,” said Preston S. McBride, an Indian boarding
school historian and a Comanche descendent. McBride has found
more than 1,000 student deaths at the four former boarding
schools he has studied, and estimates the overall number of
deaths could be as high as 40,000.
“Basically every school had a cemetery,” he said. “There are
deaths at or deaths because of virtually every single boarding
school.”
Those deaths were the result of everything from illness to
abuse, McBride said, based on his review of historical records,
including letters written by students, parents and
administrators. Getting to the true number would take a
significant amount of time and research, McBride said. “I think
we have a long way to go.”
The report notes the investigation will likely "reveal the
approximate number of Indian children who died at Federal Indian
boarding schools to be in the thousands or tens of thousands.”
...
“It’s been an exhausting and emotional effort for them to
confront this horror on a daily basis to bring this information
to you,” Newland said at the news conference, pausing several
times to collect himself. “This has left lasting scars for all
Indigenous people. There’s not a single American Indian, Alaskan
Native or Native Hawaiian in this country whose life hasn’t been
affected by these schools.”
...
Beginning in the early 1800s, the U.S. government stole Native
American children from their communities and forced them to
attend Indian boarding schools, where they were stripped of
their languages and traditions, given English names and trained
to perform military drills.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 29, 2022, 12:46 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/readers-writers-memories-indian-boarding-160800399.html
[quote]On the the cover of Donna Council’s new book is a picture
of a little Indian girl. With her big, sorrowful eyes, puzzled
expression and a bottom lip that trembles with hidden tears, she
is the scared, abused, confused child Council was when she was a
child. Council and her four little sisters were taken from their
parents and sent to Marty, the St. Paul’s Indian MIssion
boarding school about 70 miles south of the family home in
Mitchell, S.D.
Donna was 12 at the time and her terrible years at the school
included bullying by other kids and nuns and dozens of rules
that brought punishment if broken. The frightened children, who
didn’t understand why they were taken from their homes, were
told their parents didn’t love them and treated as though they
were “just Indians.”
The U.S. government-run boarding schools for Indian children,
begun in the 19th century to integrate the Indians into white
society (which meant taking their land), lasted into the early
1990s in some places. Nobody knows how many children died, or
were killed, in those bleak buildings that housed three
generations of Indian children, some of whom committed suicide.
Yet, there was no one to protect them. The Catholic Church
controlled the schools and the kids’ lives. If they survived,
many grew up to feel worthless and afraid. Like Council, many
later learned they had PTSD but they had stuffed their feelings
The author’s mother and grandparents were in the boarding
schools but never discussed their experiences. “They kept their
pain deeply hidden inside,” Council writes of the generations
before her.
Now, she is opening the door to let light shine into those dark
corridors, dormitories and punishment rooms.
Council grew up, had two children and was a counselor for Indian
youth. But that little Indian girl was always inside her. She
acted like an adult, but the generational trauma from the
boarding school never went away.[/quote]
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/federal-indian-boarding-school-system-135821322.html
[quote]Last week's release of the report on the purposeful and
deliberate plan by the federal government to destroy Native
families also brought back memories of an interview I did with
American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks (Ojibwa) in the
fall of 2009 at Grand Valley State University. During the
interview, Banks recounted his experiences attending various
Indian boarding schools. He told me the experience caused him to
maintain an indifferent attitude towards his mother because he
felt she had abandoned him during the years he attended Indian
boarding schools.
Banks recalled on certain occasions, school officials would
announce a mail call so that students could get mail from home.
He would show up, but he never received any mail. He felt as if
his mother did not love him.
Years passed by and he eventually was able to go home when he
was in his late teen years. He said the first day home was
awkward, but on the second day home, his mother made him a
blueberry pie because she knew it was his favorite. He felt then
perhaps things could return to normal. So, he began talking to
her and asked her why didn’t she ever send him any letters or
try to bring him home. She told him she did.
He did not believe her.
For the rest of their lives together, he told me, he would look
at his mother and have a sense of indifference towards her. This
feeling lasted until she died.
Decades later, while he was in his 70s, Banks saw an Internet
advertisement with information about how he could obtain his own
Indian boarding school records. He followed through on the offer
and received several boxes with his school records.
In the boxes, Banks found 14 unopened letters from his mother.
He took them to his mother’s grave, where he sat in a lawn chair
reading them one by one. Inside of one of the letters was a
money order to pay for a bus ticket home for him.
In that moment, Banks, one of the greatest Native American
warriors of the last century, wept at his mother’s grave and
asked her for forgiveness. He had been lied to by the Indian
boarding school officials, not his mother.[/quote]
It's OK for boarding school officials to be "white"?
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 8, 2022, 10:07 pm
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It's OK for swimming lessons to be "white":
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxpG9RStS-M
Nothing has changed. At least the comments are woke:
[quote]Black people stop letting and putting you children in the
hands of the enemy[/quote]
[quote]If history hasn’t taught y’all Nothing else..White folks
are NOT to be trusted..my goodness ppl[/quote]
[quote]When will Black people learn? Stop leaving your kids with
the enemy[/quote]
[quote]My people stop leaving our babies of all ages in the care
of pink folks. I honestly believe foul play with this
baby.[/quote]
[quote]You can't allow these people to care for your kids, you
can't trust them. #BLM[/quote]
[quote]Wow, just wow. Her response after killing this woman's
baby says everything. The woman is evil. She even looks evil,
like Aunt Lydia's character in "The Handmaid's Tale".[/quote]
[quote]I’m willing to bet she purposely drowned him[/quote]
[quote]I wish nothing but the absolute worst for that demoniacal
female in the fleshly form, so-called swimming
instructor.[/quote]
[quote]Right...this thing stinks to high heaven...I absolutely
feel a full scale investigation into this "accidental " death
...I just can't trust people that don't have any accountability
for their own actions...and more and more they look like
this..I'm just saying[/quote]
[quote]The white ppl probably did it purposely[/quote]
[quote]How many white kids have died in her care? If none and
that’s the majority then something is fishy with this. She could
of just let him drown and who would know it was
intentionally.[/quote]
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 12, 2022, 2:33 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/episcopalians-study-role-native-boarding-192731498.html
[quote]A fact-finding commission of the Episcopal Church will
research the history of the denomination’s role in operating
boarding schools for Native American children -- part of a
system the church now acknowledges was rooted in white supremacy
and caused generations of trauma.
...
The resolution acknowledges the boarding schools' roots in
“systems of white supremacy that have oppressed Indigenous
peoples."
...
The U.S. Department of Interior in May issued a report that
acknowledged the “traumatic and violent” means that were used in
the system. It identified more than 500 student deaths but said
further investigation would likely show thousands of deaths due
to disease and other causes.
...
n all, more than 400 boarding schools operated in the United
States from the 19th to mid-20th centuries before the system
ended, according to the Interior report. While a majority were
government-run, the report noted that many others were
church-run, and church and state collaborated closely in the
project.
The Episcopal Church operated at least nine boarding schools,
according to a database compiled by the National Native American
Boarding School Healing Coalition.
...
Ruth Johnson, a member of the House of Deputies from the
Navajoland Area Mission in the Southwest, told the convention
that she still bears the traumas of attending boarding schools,
including one where she was beaten.
“I could have easily been one of those that didn’t make it
home," said Johnson, who is Navajo. "To this day, I still have a
hard time talking about it.”[/quote]
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 17, 2022, 8:44 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/indian-boarding-schools-impacted-generations-172211719.html
[quote]aint Francis Mission was one of more than 400 Indian
boarding schools operated or funded by the federal government
through the late 1960s.
...
By 1926, more than 80 percent of Native school-aged children in
America were attending those boarding schools, according to the
Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. Sickness,
abuse, and neglect at the schools was well documented.
...
Nationally, the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
Investigative Report conducted by the Department of the Interior
over the course of nine months and published in May 2022 found
that at least 500 Native children died at boarding schools
across the country. As the investigation continues, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian
Community) estimated that number will rise to the “tens of
thousands.”
Beginning with President George Washington, the official policy
of the federal government was to forcibly replace the Native
culture with white culture under the guise of “education.”
“Indian Education: A National Tragedy—A National Challenge,” a
1969 report by the Senate Special Subcommittee on Indian
Education, known as the Kennedy Report after subcommittee chair
Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), describes the rationale behind the
practice: “This was considered ‘advisable’ as the cheapest and
safest way of subduing the Indians, of providing a safe habitat
for the country’s white inhabitants, of helping the whites
acquire desirable land, and of changing the Indian’s economy so
that he would be content with less land. Education was a weapon
by which these goals were to be accomplished.”
...
Beginning in 1893, Congress authorized the Secretary of the
Interior to withhold rations, including those guaranteed by
treaties, to Native families whose children did not attend
schools, according to the Federal Indian Boarding School
Initiative Investigative Report.
...
Conditions at the schools varied, but corporal punishment was
normal at Saint Francis.
Hollow Horn Bear remembers a brutal beating from a scholastic —
a priest in training — who searched the boys as they left the
dining hall to make sure they didn’t sneak any food out. He was
10 and had taken half his apple to eat later at a movie
screening in the gym.
“He whaled on me 50 times for half an apple,” Hollow Horn Bear
recalled. “I couldn't be on my back or sit down for days.”
Another Saint Francis survivor, Ione Quigley, told Native News
Online that she didn’t even know what violence was until she
showed up to Saint Francis as a sixth-grader.
...
The nuns and priests “formed a social stratification within the
boarding school system,” she said, drawing a pyramid on scrap
paper. “The nuns and priests were on top, and then the next
layer would be all the non-Natives, like the teachers, (and) the
workers. The next layer would be the mixed-blood children, who
were English speakers. At the very bottom layer were those of us
that were brown and spoke our Native languages.”
...
She recalls the girls receiving beatings from the nuns for
events they had no control over: including one who habitually
wet her bed, and another time when all the girls in her
dormitory accidentally witnessed a nun kissing a priest outside
the window.
Although she frequently endured physical and verbal abuse,
Quigley said perhaps she was spared from the worst of it since
her grandparents spoke English well, and threatened to report
the abusive nuns to the diocese after one incident.
“The [students] who had no family or who had no one to stand up
for them, I know they were abused,” she said. “Emotional abuse
leaves scars on your heart. So does physical abuse—and sexual
abuse, I can't even imagine. It takes away your innocence. It
takes away your trust, your securities.”
...
In South Dakota alone, former boarding-school students have
filed more than 100 lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy
members. All 27 Indian boarding schools in the state were run by
Christian churches.
“I am a 44-year-old man, and the boarding-school experiences
have been locked up inside me all these years,” a classmate of
Hollow Horn Bear who was sexually abused by a priest wrote in a
2001 letter responding to a newspaper advertisement seeking
information from former boarding-school students.
...
All of the more than 100 people who have filed lawsuits alleging
sexual abuse at boarding schools in South Dakota said it had
been done by agents of the church, mostly priests and nuns, said
attorney Greg Yates, who worked on each of the cases. Some said
they simultaneously experienced physical abuse.
All but two of the cases were dismissed by the trial judge
before the victims had their day in court. In 2010, South Dakota
amended its statute of limitations to prohibit people 40 or
older from suing institutions that knew or should have known
about sexual abuse. In 2011, the state Supreme Court ruled that
complaints of childhood sexual abuse against a church entity had
to be filed within one year of turning eighteen.
...
Dismissing all those cases, Yates told Native News Online,
deprived the survivors of their access to justice “and had the
effect of revictimizing these Native American victims of sexual
abuse by the clergy.”
...
The Department of the Interior’s investigation found that some
Native children as young as 3 were sent to boarding
schools.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2022, 5:59 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/exhibits-wisconsin-city-native-american-140436307.html
[quote]An exhibit at Manitowoc Public Library, “Away From Home,”
tells the story of another dark time affecting Indigenous
communities, the infamous boarding schools.
...
One display at the library shows a barber’s chair with a piece
of long, braided hair cut off on the chair and a story from a
survivor about how disgraceful it was for an Indigenous person
to have their hair cut off.
Another display shows handcuffs specially made for
children.[/quote]
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 15, 2022, 12:21 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/road-healing-event-draws-more-123700351.html
[quote]Until now, former students of the institutions were
largely ignored, surviving separation from family, culture and
language, and navigating through generations of trauma left by
the legacy of the boarding schools.
Kim Fyke, an elder of Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians,
donned a shirt that read "survivor of the holy schools."
Fyke, 61, is a survivor of Holy Childhood, one of the
longest-operated Indian boarding schools in Michigan. The
institution once housed thousands of Native American students
from throughout the Great Lakes region.
She described physical and sexual abuse at the hands of school
employees. School leaders knew of the abuse but did nothing to
stop it, she said.
"I was once locked in a cooler at the institution, beaten, and
deprived of all love ... I want answers why, why did they do
this to little children?"[/quote]
Because they are Westerners.
[quote]"We are still suffering from the generational legacies
left from these schools ... I've lost so many people to these
institutions."
...
The United States operated 408 Indian boarding schools between
1819 and 1969, according to the Federal Indian Boarding School
Initiative Investigative Report.
More than 150 were run by churches, about half each by Catholic
and Protestant groups, according to the National Native American
Boarding School Healing Coalition.
In addition to the Federal Indian Boarding Schools, the
Department of Interior also identified more than 1,000
additional federal and non-federal institutions that didn't fall
under its definition, like Indian day schools, sanitariums,
asylums, orphanages, and stand-alone dormitories that worked
similarly in assimilating Native children.
By 1926, nearly 83 percent of Native American school-age
children attended boarding schools. Many were sexually abused,
beaten for speaking their language, and stripped of their
culture and traditions.[/quote]
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 25, 2022, 7:14 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/many-native-american-children-died-130057643.html
[quote]For thousands of Indigenous children in Arizona and
beyond, school didn’t mean learning and growth – it meant pain
and suffering.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, churches worked with the
U.S. government to create hundreds of boarding schools for
Native American children. During this time, Native children were
coerced or forcibly removed from their families and communities.
They were taken to institutions that were focused on dismantling
their culture and family unit in the name of “assimilation” into
white [s]American[/s] culture.
...
while the harms of the boarding school era are well-known to
Indigenous communities, there had never been federal
documentation of these horrors.
The report aimed to examine the scope of the Indian boarding
school system with a specific focus on the locations, burial
sites and possible identification of children. It was also
notable because for the first time, the federal government
acknowledged “that the United States directly targeted American
Natives, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiian children in pursuit
of a policy of cultural assimilation.”
...
According to the Interior report, Arizona held the second
largest number of boarding schools in the nation, with 47
schools throughout our state. You can see evidence of this
horrible legacy today – Indian School Road was named as such
because it led to a Native boarding school right in central
Phoenix[/quote]
Bonus Counterculture-era movie:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg1cEKgIHoI
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Re: Residential schools
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 28, 2022, 7:55 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/america-is-always-written-as-the-hero-native-american-boarding-schools-are-a-dark-period-in-us-history-that-not-enough-people-know-about-163018941.html
[quote]Families were forced to send their children to these
schools by the government and the Catholic church. By 1926,
nearly 83% of all Native children were enrolled in one of these
schools. Children were made to eliminate their entire cultural
identities; schools cut their braids, had them wear uniforms,
removed traditional foods from their diets and even assigned
them new “white” names.
It was not until 1978, when the Indian Child Welfare Act passed,
that Native American parents could even have a legal say as to
whether their children could attend an off-reservation school.
Nikki Apostolou, a member of the Kanien’keha community whose
great-grandfather attended one of the schools, explained to In
The Know: “Many [of these schools] were promoted and operated
under the belief that they were helping Native children to
become better integrated into [s]Christian[/s], modern society.”
...
Phyllis “Jack” Webstad, who is Northern Secwpemc (Shuswap) from
the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, was initially enrolled at
a residential school when she was 6 years old in 1973. She
shared that her grandmother had bought her a “shiny orange
shirt” to get her excited for the first day of school. But when
Webstad arrived, boarding school officials immediately stripped
her of her clothes.[/quote]
HTML https://www.orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story.html
[quote]When I got to the Mission, they stripped me, and took
away my clothes, including the orange shirt! I never wore it
again. I didn’t understand why they wouldn’t give it back to me,
it was mine! The color orange has always reminded me of that and
how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and how I felt
like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying
and no one cared.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Right-left (Judeo-)Christian divergence
By: guest98 Date: May 23, 2023, 2:39 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65652001
Illinois report details scale of Catholic clergy sex abuse
[quote]
Hundreds of Catholic priests and church officials in the US
state of Illinois have been named in a report detailing sexual
abuse by clergy.
The state's top prosecutor said 451 clergy in Illinois had
sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.
The church had acknowledged only 103 individual abusers before
the start of the investigation in 2018.
Nearly every survivor interviewed struggled with mental health
issues after the abuse, the report said.
Several US states launched investigations into Catholic sexual
abuse after a Pennsylvania grand jury report in 2018 found that
300 priests had abused more than 1,000 children over a period of
70 years.
[/quote]
The Catholic "church" needs to be totally destroyed. They don't
follow the teachings of Jesus, who is returning soon.
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