US: For thousands of Indigenous children, Native American boarding schools erased their culture or worse (Opinion) (Includes video) (May require subscription)
Tennessean – October 14, 2021
Imagine being a child taken in handcuffs from your home and transported thousands of miles to a cold prison-like building. Imagine being beaten bloody for speaking English. Imagine being always hungry and cold. Imagine huddling in terror in the middle of the night in a cold dormitory room knowing that at any moment you could be snatched from your bed by sexual predators roaming the hallways like wild animals searching for prey. Imagine being a parent and finding soldiers at your home who abduct your children to parts unknown. Imagine the terror felt by parents and children, some of whom are toddlers only 2 or 3 years old. This was the lot of countless Indigenous families in Canada and the U.S. beginning in the late 19th century as their children were kidnapped to so-called Indian boarding schools.
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