30 Historic Photos Revealing Life Inside Native American Boarding Schools in the 1910s
#photography #forcedassimilation #children #nativeamerican #indigenous #school #history #documentation
Testimony against the „re-writing“ of American history by the white supremacist politics in the USA
I will never shut up about the injustices my family and our Scottish Traveller people went through. I won't back down from the Scot Government who are cherry picking our trauma and the trauma of others. #indigenous #indigenouspeoples #indigenousrights #intergenerationaltrauma #forcedassimilation
#firstnations #residentialschools #everychildmatters #nativeamerican #forcedassimilation #children #childabuse #murder #kidnapping
#trauma #childhoodtrauma #anticolonialism #Indigenousrights #IndigenousSovereignty #humanrights #justice
#ForcedAssimilation #CarlisleIndianSchool convert or die has always been the Colonizer motto
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The #TRC report, often using the words of officials themselves, makes the system's primary goal chillingly clear.
The purpose was "not to educate them, but primarily to #break their link to their #culture and #identity." It was an engine of #ForcedAssimilation.
"Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Pennsylvania... When it closed in 1918, Carlisle School had subjected 7,800+ Native children from 140+ tribes to verbal, physical & sexual abuse that led to trauma & death." #ForcedAssimilation
Until they are all found 🕯️🪶🤎
#ResidentialSchools #IndianBoardingSchools #Genocide #ForcedAssimilation #ChildhoodTortureSurvivors #ChildhoodTrauma #ChildAbuse #ChildTrafficking #ChildExploitation #GenerationalTrauma
"#Kamloops Industrial School (...) was part of the Canadian residential school system, established as part of the government policy of #ForcedAssimilation that resulted in the oppression of generations of #Indigenous...
Photo essay: "Borderlands - #NativeAmerican children’s historic #ForcedAssimilation"
www.sapiens.org/culture/native-american-... by Lindsay M. Montgomery and @drchipcolwell via @SAPIENS_org
