KevinMD December 30, 2024
In October, President Biden formally apologized for the U.S. Indian boarding school system—a brutal legacy of forced assimilation that inflicted profound harm on Indigenous communities and continues to reverberate today. For those who are unfamiliar, Native children at these boarding schools suffered horrific physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse, all while being isolated from their families and communities. By 1926, nearly 83 percent of Native children were attending these schools. The purpose of the Indian Boarding School Policy was explicitly to “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” To this end, Native children were often starved or brutally punished for speaking their Native languages. The abduction and forced assimilation of children also impacted families by erasing culture and...
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