I talked to a Salish elder who said she was taken to an abusive “Education” boarding school as a child to have her Indian culture removed. If they deemed a child naughty, they would put them in a cage built into a seaside cave and leave them over night. The tides would rise and if hypothermia wasn’t likely to get you, the super moon tides might. She said many children died there. I know of another Indian boarding school that was near property my family lived on with several other families. The area was mostly swamp land and we heard that they would send punished boys out on the swamp at night. Apparently several never came back. I can only hope they escaped. I used to think that story seemed a bit far fetched, but after hearing the elders tales and news about mass graves, I can’t doubt it much anymore. Horrific, monstrous, callous acts of violence weren’t just carried out against men and women. They hurt children too. The hurt children in mass concentration. They didn’t care if the children made it through education or not, this was a pure act of genocide.
rasterbated on May 28th, 2021 at 02:57 UTC »
That would be the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which lifted the legal bans on many parts of native religious practice.
DemotivatedTurtle on May 28th, 2021 at 03:46 UTC »
I’m in my thirties and I’ve only just now learned about this. It makes me feel physically ill.
gesasage88 on May 28th, 2021 at 04:10 UTC »
I talked to a Salish elder who said she was taken to an abusive “Education” boarding school as a child to have her Indian culture removed. If they deemed a child naughty, they would put them in a cage built into a seaside cave and leave them over night. The tides would rise and if hypothermia wasn’t likely to get you, the super moon tides might. She said many children died there. I know of another Indian boarding school that was near property my family lived on with several other families. The area was mostly swamp land and we heard that they would send punished boys out on the swamp at night. Apparently several never came back. I can only hope they escaped. I used to think that story seemed a bit far fetched, but after hearing the elders tales and news about mass graves, I can’t doubt it much anymore. Horrific, monstrous, callous acts of violence weren’t just carried out against men and women. They hurt children too. The hurt children in mass concentration. They didn’t care if the children made it through education or not, this was a pure act of genocide.