American Indian Boarding Schools: A Small US Town Digs for the Truth | Foreign Correspondent

On the frozen plains of Nebraska, a grim search is underway.
The community is trying to locate an old cemetery that was once on the grounds of the US Indian Genoa Industrial School. - Subscribe: ab.co/3yqPOZ5
‘A cemetery at a school is not the norm - that you could die and then you’re gonna be buried out the door?’ Judi gaiashkibos, Commission on Indian Affairs, Nebraska
The State Archaeologist is using ground penetrating radar to try and locate an old cemetery that is somewhere on the grounds of the former Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School.
The Genoa school was one of a network of institutions for Native American children set up in the 19th and 20th centuries across the U.S.A.
Their purpose was to assimilate indigenous children into the white man’s world.
By 1926, it’s estimated more than 80% of Native American children were enrolled in these institutions.
“We've been severed from our language, from our culture, from our practices over a whole course of time, but the boarding school era did a number on our people where we almost did not recuperate from it.” Redwing Thomas, Teacher, Santee Sioux Nation.
Last year, the discovery of more than a thousand graves of children at the sites of former boarding schools in Canada pushed the U.S.A to examine its own history.
ABC journalist Stan Grant, whose family was impacted by Australia’s assimilationist policies of forcibly removing children from families, presents this powerful story.
He tells the story of a community in Nebraska trying to uncover the truth about one of the country’s largest and longest running boarding schools.
‘We were taught in school about Native American boarding schools, assimilation’, says Genoa resident Nikki Drozd ‘but we weren’t aware of the cemetery…I didn’t stop to think about the children that died here.’
This month, the US Department of the Interior has published the first major government investigation of the country’s boarding school history.
It estimated that up to tens of thousands of children could have died while attending these state-sanctioned institutions.
‘We’re still looking for those children that died’, says Judi gaiashkibos. ‘I can’t rest until I feel I’ve exhausted every possible avenue to find the children’.
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  • @gailanderson7699
    @gailanderson7699 Жыл бұрын

    My best friends grandfather would find kids running away from the school in Fort Shaw, Montana. Summer and winter. They had no shoes and no coats! He found them when tending his range cattle. He put them on his horse and took them to his home to feed them and in winter, warm them up. Then he took them home! Over 100 miles, on horseback. To honor him the tribe gifted him a lodge (teepee) that They put up each summer on the ranch. We played in that teepee a lot, as it stayed so cool on hot summer days. It made me very aware of the plight of the indigenous people at a very young age. My grandparents homesteaded near The south end of Flathead Lake shortly after the last of the Indian wars. They were often visited by tribal men. They were heartsick when they realized the land they farmed had been tribal lands. The truth about what happened to these Majestic cultures must be told. Their story is a huge American tragedy. 😢

  • @dodadeb8954

    @dodadeb8954

    Жыл бұрын

    Gail, I just love your family legacy and story. What a true blessing to have experienced these loving, respectful, relationships. What a rich history.

  • @DARWIISHAD

    @DARWIISHAD

    Жыл бұрын

    Your best friend grandfather should have been mentioned in history if this is true he then was hero bless him there is good people in every country an bad people, im glad he was one of the good people

  • @DARWIISHAD

    @DARWIISHAD

    Жыл бұрын

    Please spread out the untold story for your best friend grandfather

  • @gailanderson7699

    @gailanderson7699

    Жыл бұрын

    Bill Cole Sr, may be looked at as a hero today, but back then, if he had been caught doing that, he probably would have been arrested! He didn’t do it to be a hero! He did it because he didn’t think it was right! And he had compassion for these great people. Same stuff happens today!

  • @DARWIISHAD

    @DARWIISHAD

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gailanderson7699 you upsalutely right thank you dear sharing with us bill Cole right doing, bless his soul an bless you

  • @yugotime1598
    @yugotime1598 Жыл бұрын

    I can tell you with certainty, this subject was not taught in general public schools here in the U.S.

  • @georgastyles4202

    @georgastyles4202

    Жыл бұрын

    Of course not

  • @5thribroarn304

    @5thribroarn304

    Жыл бұрын

    To understand the Worldwide atrocity, research satanic ritual abuse and murder, plus other things could have occurred, plus, who was running the Worldwide Schools.

  • @sarahnicole45

    @sarahnicole45

    Жыл бұрын

    Can confirm this is 100% true. K through 12, none of this is taught.

  • @5thribroarn304

    @5thribroarn304

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sarahnicole45 Neither is the Truth about Slavery, both Black and White, formerly and currently, The Civil War, nor any World War, or about mostly everything that we've been told, such as the Fake Moon Landing filmed by Director Stanley Kubrick. The Truth Will Come Out About All, in order to Save Our Children.

  • @patrickshyuthegaytechlead287

    @patrickshyuthegaytechlead287

    Жыл бұрын

    Idk where everyone went to school, but we can all agree that the US public education system is not the same for every school and each district has their own criteria on how curriculum is taught. I attended public K-12 and graduated HS 2012 to give my time frame. I remember learning about how the children were brought to boarding schools much like how China does their "reeducation camps". Though the teacher didn't publicly bring this up or test us on it, it was brought up in our required readings, which, let's be honest, most students don't do...

  • @jennifervan75
    @jennifervan75 Жыл бұрын

    Finally this is being addressed. This needs to be International news and taught in history.

  • @resourcedragon

    @resourcedragon

    Жыл бұрын

    It's strange that we seem to know more about it in Australia than you do in the US.

  • @mercylago4744

    @mercylago4744

    Жыл бұрын

    @@resourcedragon there's sadly documentaries that had been out about their trauma for years. Sadly Australia doesn't fall too far behind with the brutality. What about your aboriginal people? Have you treated them kindly?

  • @hypnotherapycw

    @hypnotherapycw

    Жыл бұрын

    It needs to be US NEWS EVERY DAY. not the RAMPANT DENIAL!!!

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    international news is what activists want and money, first provide proof, Canaada is still waiting for proof

  • @tesorosdetomas
    @tesorosdetomas Жыл бұрын

    Children not returning home has never been invisible. Just ignored. Please know I honor and appreciate everyone who has made it possible to bring this into the light.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    \some realism has to be brought to this illness, unable to contact families, etc

  • @pauldelorme1524
    @pauldelorme1524 Жыл бұрын

    At 64 years of age, I teach native children to live off the land here in Canada. I am CREE and the 7th generation is almost here.

  • @cherylpemberton1676

    @cherylpemberton1676

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes it is nearly come! I wholeheartedly believe this WILL come to pass, and all truths WILL be revealed!! Thank you for sharing this!!

  • @1111poppy

    @1111poppy

    Жыл бұрын

    Honor Mother Earth. She gives us life.

  • @augustajeter6035

    @augustajeter6035

    Жыл бұрын

    Forgive my ignorance, but what is the 7th generation?

  • @SL-sd3sg

    @SL-sd3sg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@augustajeter6035 16 to 40 years between generations perhaps?

  • @Ihateyou274

    @Ihateyou274

    Жыл бұрын

    Clearly another implication not just the passage of time some significant event as the other person mentioned all truths will be revealed

  • @mightymissk
    @mightymissk Жыл бұрын

    I cried good tears watching that last scene, when the kids were speaking the language of their ancestors. The racist brutes didn't succeed. The native people survived. They're resurrecting their culture. They're learning their own languages again. They're honoring their lost loved ones. Those monsters who wanted to kill the Indian in the child didn't succeed.

  • @damienroberts934

    @damienroberts934

    Жыл бұрын

    My distinct impression of the graduates were how well adjusted they were. Unlike their reservation brothers and sisters. My question is - if an Indian who went through the Indian schools and then witnessed what they would have experienced had they not been put into that system, would they regret it?

  • @gothempress

    @gothempress

    Жыл бұрын

    @@damienroberts934 Your argument is a logical fallacy. You are asking if abused and traumatized children are grateful that they are abused and traumatized. They weren't more "well adjusted" (although they could "pass" in white society.) They had their culture, their sense of self worth, their pride, their FAMILY beaten out of them! If you watched this entire documentary and got out of it that the whitewashing schools were a good thing, then you are a depraved human being.

  • @aliciamari85

    @aliciamari85

    Жыл бұрын

    @@damienroberts934 would who regret what? Here's my question.. why doesn't America regret anything at all?

  • @damienroberts934

    @damienroberts934

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aliciamari85 For the same reason Indian tribes do not regret wiping from the face of the earth other tribes, long before Europeans arrived. Being powerless does not make you virtuous .

  • @echelonrank3927

    @echelonrank3927

    Жыл бұрын

    there was proof they died of causes not inflicted by 'monsters', but regular things like accidents and ordinary diseases same as the rest of the population.

  • @evae.9111
    @evae.9111 Жыл бұрын

    “Instead, we reverse it”. When he said, “It’s a happy atmosphere.” There was so much pain in his eyes…😔. Praying for restoration for your people. ❤️

  • @syleneburnley4749

    @syleneburnley4749

    8 ай бұрын

    🤎💫💫💫💫💫💫💫🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲💛💙❤💔💔💔🥹🥹🥹🥹😪😪😔😔😔

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    that is all this is a money grab

  • @resourcedragon
    @resourcedragon Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely gut-wrenching, especially the statement, "I don't call them cemeteries, I call them crime scenes." I really hope that they can find some of the children's remains and repatriate them to their communities. Unfortunately, though, finding children's remains is a lot more difficult than finding adults'. There was an orphanage near Rockhampton (the Neerkol orphanage) in Queensland, Australia, where the survivors alleged that a number of children had died/been killed. If I remember correctly, they specifically claimed that the nuns who ran the place told the children that they would die like little Johnny (or Suzie or Annie or whatever) and be buried in a specific area if they didn't behave. The survivors remembered children being there one day and not there the next. While there were some searches that were carried out, nothing was found 30 years after the events.

  • @patti3855

    @patti3855

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes that's the Roman Catholic cult for you.

  • @wolfthequarrelsome504

    @wolfthequarrelsome504

    4 ай бұрын

    No bodies

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    drama to provide space for money

  • @louettesommers8594
    @louettesommers8594 Жыл бұрын

    This is one of the most horrendous things done to Native American children and the whole Native community. 💔💔💔

  • @mikeseguin6443

    @mikeseguin6443

    Жыл бұрын

    You are absolutely right.Very sad.

  • @gunsnsexdolls9800

    @gunsnsexdolls9800

    Жыл бұрын

    Turns out they had concentration camps.

  • @louettesommers8594

    @louettesommers8594

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gunsnsexdolls9800 I don’t know anything about that but I have read several books about the horrors that the children experienced. I can’t imagine what their parents went through.

  • @deanna_0037

    @deanna_0037

    Жыл бұрын

    This is JUST one of crimes against Natives of North Americans.

  • @louettesommers8594

    @louettesommers8594

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deanna_0037 I know and it’s more than just horrible. I’m at a loss of words to express how I feel about it.

  • @redmoondesignbeth9119
    @redmoondesignbeth9119 Жыл бұрын

    My 70 yr old friend, Rose Johnson Tsosie was illegally adopted with her twin sister at birth by elderly Mormons to educate the Indian out of them. Part of their routine was practicing typing before breakfast when they were only 5. Rose went on to work in Washington DC. She wrote a book about her experiences when she found her bio mother while doing missionary work on the Rez. It's a small but powerful book: "Finding Helen: A Navajo Miracle".

  • @amypatton6730

    @amypatton6730

    Жыл бұрын

    So sad.

  • @bonnierobinson8684

    @bonnierobinson8684

    Жыл бұрын

    Mormons did create school for them but most were not effective!

  • @TheBold1994

    @TheBold1994

    Жыл бұрын

    So when the US Gov ended the boarding school programs; the Mormons just continued the cultural/ethnic cleansing through illegal adoptions? They should make a documentary about this!

  • @nicolepaloms3509

    @nicolepaloms3509

    Жыл бұрын

    @@desertrat4532 Sounds like a white thing.

  • @ramaraksha01

    @ramaraksha01

    Жыл бұрын

    The problem is still with us - The Native Americans revered the land, the rivers, the Buffalo - the settlers had different ideas - the land was to be exploited. The Buffalo was meat or its hide could keep them warm Today, we see the same mentality - India a few years ago passed the cow killing ban The cow is revered in Hinduism - the west doesn't care - to them it was meat The abuse we got - in the 21st century! The very same people crying tears over what happened to the Native Americans turn around and abuse us Indians

  • @april4872
    @april4872 Жыл бұрын

    Crime scene describes it perfectly. It's so devastating that this happened and the only thing good is that the truth is coming out.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    what is coming out ids not substantiated by the archives or true history and it is presenting lies to get money, read thew archives which includes both sides

  • @Cool-Aid5564
    @Cool-Aid5564 Жыл бұрын

    My Grandpa Crall was in a boarding school. I know he suffered alot. He he missed his family and his culture and he and the others were treated very poorly we knew. He seemed embarrassed that he had lived this way. He always told me he was a full blooded Cherokee Indian and very proud of it. He died just befor Indians were compensated? Allowed casinos? Idk?

  • @lizh1988

    @lizh1988

    Жыл бұрын

    Allowed casinos, but the res land where gold was discovered was taken from them. Casinos are trafficking sites, helps boost gambling & sex addictions, alcoholism and all the behaviors that go with that.

  • @Cool-Aid5564

    @Cool-Aid5564

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lizh1988 I know, it seems those in control always do the opposite of what would be good. ? I feel oppressed for some reason....

  • @nabaninandi4140

    @nabaninandi4140

    Жыл бұрын

    Indian? No no...we are indians...you guys are local americans...

  • @cielonehellofaservicedog4648

    @cielonehellofaservicedog4648

    Жыл бұрын

    If he was cherokee, he would be on the rolls. anyone born after 1838 would be located on a roll somewhere, especially if they were sent to a school... There is exactly 1 person name "Crall" (Exact spelling) in Ancestry's American Indian Records Collection, and that man was Creek---- "Name Crall McGill Residence Date 1857-1859 Residence Place Tuckababcher Native American Tribe Creek" So, I would research further into your ancestry.....many familie have a myth of their grandparent, or great grandparent, or even great great grandparent, was cherokee or other such native american (usually those of the 5 civilized tribes), when it is a lie or just folklore with no evidence to back it up...Many times it is used to cover up another ethnicity like being mixed with african american and asian...or just being African american but lighter in skin tone..many families have myths cause of a ancestor rather claim being cherokee, than what they were. Which often has historical context, why that would have been better, but still, it is often the start of the family folklore about great grandpa being cherokee...

  • @angelaj8958

    @angelaj8958

    10 ай бұрын

    @@cielonehellofaservicedog4648 there were many full blood members and descendants who were not put on the rolls. The Cherokee would not enroll those who left the homelands before the Trail of Tears, they are called Old Settlers; the Texas Cherokee were Old Settlers. Even Chief Bowls children were not allowed to enroll and went back to the old homelands.

  • @michelleduty
    @michelleduty Жыл бұрын

    Just heartbreaking. So glad their story is truly going to be told and hopefully taught to the next generation as true American history, not the fake history I was taught.

  • @GardeninGrace

    @GardeninGrace

    Жыл бұрын

    My AP U.S history teacher knew how much I liked the dark side of history and I’d bring up these topics in class. I didn’t know about the residential schools until she pulled me aside after class and told me about the indigenous children taken from their families and adopted into white families or put in residential schools where they’d face abuse. She mentioned the fact she’s “not allowed” to teach about it to the entire class, which made me wonder especially as the South debates critical race theory when I didn’t know exact definition/difference between race and ethnicity until freshman year of college. I live in Massachusetts, so they fact she wasn’t allowed to teach about that but was allowed to teach about the Trail of Tears, I wonder what BS other Americans are being taught. The truth is the truth.

  • @Gigi1111Layna

    @Gigi1111Layna

    Жыл бұрын

    Our history is much much worse than we could possibly imagine. So bad that ppl just would completely dismiss it all. It is literally too much for anyone's mind to accept.

  • @Coincidence_Theorist

    @Coincidence_Theorist

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m afraid this is multi layered. They have been subversive and sly beyond belief. Beyond belief is one of the keys. Done with prior planning and to a degree that no one imagines it could be. They came to the “new world” on a mission and not in any religious context. They knew where they were going and what they were taking and from whom. This was to be new Babylon. The statue of liberty stands proudly smirking to this fact. The statue is of the light bearer. Lucifer. Its funny im sitting here second guess if i should say this for worr of losing people. “Oh thats nonsense and conspiracy”. The cons piracy of your reality is immense. You may not believe in these things but they do. And they have it ll in plain view. (I despise the whole controlled op Qbs. It was a brilliant move that muddied the waters and left every more divided. Ps. Anyone pushing the poison is not good. Period

  • @rickt1866

    @rickt1866

    Жыл бұрын

    if you knew the whole story it might not sound as crazy. what happen in 1918 that just might leave a lot of kids without parents?

  • @kccox8516

    @kccox8516

    Жыл бұрын

    We studied different American History. The Indian Children's carried off were treated terribly, and their Parents were helpless. Across the World, people couldn't fight Tyrants, Communist Governments, the Powerful Catholic Church ETC...ETC... It's terribly disturbing what has been done against the Well Being of Human Lives. It's a true blessing for the Indian People to tell their stories and honor the lives of Children that didn't make it Home. I pray the graves are found and their Spirits are Celebrated and Free. 💦❣️🙏🌹🌹🌹

  • @unevenbutter1122
    @unevenbutter1122 Жыл бұрын

    "Instead it's a happy atmosphere, it's joyous and exciting and it's everything our ancestors were forbidden to have" - this made me burst in to tears, what a beautiful perspective.

  • @gothempress

    @gothempress

    Жыл бұрын

    This is the beginning of healing generational trauma. It is so heartbreaking to see the damage colonizers have done to First Nation and Indigenous peoples. They deserve reparations, heartfelt apologies, public funding and services so they can repatriate their dead to their sacred lands, and for proper education, healthcare and support for those suffering on reservations to this day.

  • @lynneaglefeather2344

    @lynneaglefeather2344

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@gothempress Yes thank you for acknowledging what pain our Ancestors endured. Our reservations desperately need mental health care, upgrading the schools, teaching the children how to grow food Indigenous to the land. We need more Indigenous lawyers, doctors, teachers. We Are Resilient! ✊🏽

  • @SipLeila

    @SipLeila

    Жыл бұрын

    Indian tribes now send their kids to boarding schools who have serious drug problems, because they can't handle them.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    what a disney fantasy

  • @Dackota
    @Dackota Жыл бұрын

    My grandma went to boarding school in the 40s-50s and her time there really did affect her entire life. If you're taken away from your parents and not shown any love, that's how you raise your kids and so on. I'm that cycle breaker and I just want to cry every time I hear about how these children were treated. It is true that we need to reclaim our culture that was taken during this time. I saw a comment here about how some still think Native people are useless drunks, and it is a terrible stereotype. One thing about my grandma is she became an LVN and worked at the hospital for 40 years and retired early because our mom died when we were young, so she did it to raise her grandkids. I'm working on my masters degree myself. One day I'll heal from the generational trauma boarding school caused my family.

  • @angelaj8958

    @angelaj8958

    10 ай бұрын

    I am sorry you still suffer from what was done to your family. I grew up knowing a small bit of this type of story. My Gr-grandmother was 1/4 Cherokee, the oldest child in her family, living just across the line from Indian Territory in Arkansas. When she was 10, the Indian agent came around the house, and told her parents he wanted her and her younger sister taken to the Female Seminary in Tahlequah, and gave them a date to be there. Instead her parents closed up the house, and took the family away 400 miles by train to a small town in north KS where all his relatives lived. The Cherokee grandfather died about 3 years later, before 1900. The family stayed up north til my grandmother graduated HS; she passed away age 79 in 1964. It is shameful that it has taken so long to acknowledge this injustice for all the individuals and families that suffered through it.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    oh please boarding schools and learning other ways have gone on for thousands of years and go on today. They were demanded by the chiefs, read the archives and the students went home all summer.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    the so called generational trauma is why you are who you are today, for someone getting a masters you should be more informed.

  • @tamaraprentice9280
    @tamaraprentice9280 Жыл бұрын

    My mom lived on reservations when she was a child. Her dad, and 2 brothers lived there. I don’t know how she, and her brother’s didn’t go to those hellish boarding schools, and I am thankful they didn’t go. She did attend Catholic schools, and hated it. She learned quickly. She didn’t need a priest to talk to talk to God. She instinctively knew she never trust them

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    yet somehow you speak english

  • @howlsatdesertmoon9840
    @howlsatdesertmoon9840 Жыл бұрын

    Language is the soul of culture. For those who would preserve a culture, it is a sacred and paramount duty to preserve its language.

  • @gregcowen930

    @gregcowen930

    Жыл бұрын

    Something they took away from the native Hawaiian ppl as well; I’m gladdened to see the growing movement on the islands, calling for independence

  • @minirock000

    @minirock000

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gregcowen930 Yeah, they hate GI's, they hate white people. The wind blows constantly. Once you have seen it all, you have literally seen it all. You can't get tours at Keck and they have to truck the sand in because again, the white people take it home. This is what GI's tell each other about being stationed there, except for the Keck part, that's me and true. You really don't want to be stuck there for two years. We forced them into statehood. Put the wrong leader in power, let's give it back. I hear Puerto Rico is dying to get in and they vote Democrat as well. Especially since the last President was throwing paper towels at them during a natural disaster.

  • @gregcowen930

    @gregcowen930

    Жыл бұрын

    @@minirock000 yea I hear Schofield barracks sucks, but what base doesn’t?

  • @hsiao-meihuang4984

    @hsiao-meihuang4984

    Жыл бұрын

    Watched the film felt the old historical culture in the USA history. People have to think live standard poorly and infectious diseases plus the USA tried to people can initiate national language in the USA.

  • @sandraroberts7406

    @sandraroberts7406

    Жыл бұрын

    OUR HEBREW SLAVES WERE STRIPPED OF OUR LANGUAGE. WHERE DO I START?

  • @captain4595
    @captain4595 Жыл бұрын

    Often the nations preaching human rights to other nations have a dark history of committing heinous atrocities

  • @maracohen5930

    @maracohen5930

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s the worst of it. They preach like they don’t live off the resources thieved when tj y violated their own Laws to do what they did. All I can say is they did the same to their own folks when they could. The sheer dishonesty and hypocrisy tends to make one just close one’s mouth and know better than to believe anything they say as a Nation.

  • @pwleb

    @pwleb

    Жыл бұрын

    It's not history. It's a mentality that's ingrained in a now global, greedy and unjust system they've created and continues today. It continues to be responsible for many of the world's major problems.

  • @maracohen5930

    @maracohen5930

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pwleb The “separation” from biological and environmental realities, has lead to complete non-accountability for actions, activities and socially acceptable behaviors, that will indeed lead to a human die off. And NO ONE will be immune. No matter how much Apple or Microsoft shares they own.

  • @Tksplaylist50

    @Tksplaylist50

    Жыл бұрын

    this country is SO good at that...accuse others of horrific acts yet we are no better or in some case WORSE. Just look what is happening to how our country today in many ways...it's everything the government can do to take away our God Given Rights for all men!!

  • @maracohen5930

    @maracohen5930

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Tksplaylist50 AND Women. What I cannot figure out is WHY anyone would think that a Government Agency/Bureaucracy that cannot even accomplish it’s Constitutional Mandates with any real degree of accountability is somehow expected to accomplish what a citizen and their healthcare provider are not able to do without Fed. Government involvement mandating some Legislator’s beliefs into law for all. And th y cannot even get Hemp off of the Schedule One Drug list….where it sits along with Heroin, meanwhile we actually import hemp fiber and products to the tune of 300 Million USD per year. Frankly, I don’t think our Legislative branches ought to be allowed to create anymore laws until they have cleaned the books of all the useless, unfunded mandated laws that simply make no sense. Beginning with “Corporations are People”.

  • @KahwahShutseh
    @KahwahShutseh Жыл бұрын

    This is a well done piece. It's quite annoying that these are never aired on mainstream TV during prime time. They are always hidden on KZread somewhere and you have to specifically search for such programs.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    because they are questionable

  • @conqueringthelabyrinth
    @conqueringthelabyrinth Жыл бұрын

    Heartbreaking. As a Nebraskan I thank you for bringing this to the forefront, the news media here in the US is not covering anything about the residential schools.

  • @steff9041
    @steff9041 Жыл бұрын

    Another method of "teaching" English was to spank/beat the child speaking their native language. This was standard practice and applied to immigrants as well as indigenous peoples. In the early 1920s when my Finnish grandmother started school she was paddled for not speaking English, which she didn't know because Finnish was spoken at home.

  • @lilachiricli6756

    @lilachiricli6756

    Жыл бұрын

    This happened in Wales also. Small children beaten in school for speaking Welsh. They couldn't speak English!

  • @resourcedragon

    @resourcedragon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lilachiricli6756: I was just going to mention Wales in reply to Steff. (I remember hearing about a Welsh speaker who had learnt some English but who wasn't familiar with a lot of words. He was required to read a passage in English in class and the passage included the word "misled". As he'd not met it before and didn't know what it meant, he pronounced it "mizzl'd". The teacher beat him for getting it wrong.) The same also happened to Scottish children who spoke Lallans (a Scottish dialect of English - regarded as a separate language in the 16th century but later relegated to the status of "bad English"). I would be surprised if the Gaelic speaking children weren't also beaten for doing so.

  • @ginakelley749
    @ginakelley749 Жыл бұрын

    As a German, who married a Lakota, who had been in a boarding school and also fought in Vietnam, I'm absolutely outraged about the US treatment of Native Americans. I can see, how these people were systematically destroyed, languishing, becoming suicidal, getting addicted to alcohol and drugs for lack of hope and a meaningful life. So utterly disgusting, what the Colonials did to the heirs of this continent

  • @WillieMakeit

    @WillieMakeit

    Жыл бұрын

    Reminds you of what you people did to others I hope

  • @goldiegold5562

    @goldiegold5562

    Жыл бұрын

    OH...WE will never forget what Germans did in NAMIBIA..if you are going to speak about American issues.The Massacre by the Colonizer Germany in Africa shouldn't be left out.

  • @joeyreidelbach5509

    @joeyreidelbach5509

    Жыл бұрын

    @@goldiegold5562 oooo please the Germans treated the Africans better then the British and specially the Dutch.

  • @Jay-lt1bh

    @Jay-lt1bh

    Жыл бұрын

    There is a reason that Hitler idolised America and sought inspiration from her regarding the "enhancement" of the population.

  • @ruxanajewoon517

    @ruxanajewoon517

    Жыл бұрын

    Usa is theplanetary terrorist n murderer

  • @Lea-rb9nc
    @Lea-rb9nc Жыл бұрын

    Growing up in Southern California, I remember all to well, the young boys that were sent out from Sherman Institute to do the yardwork at our house. Thoughts of them have crossed my mind so many times over the decades. Being a latch-key child, I was often the only one there when they showed up. Yes, my perspective is that of that young girl, but it is what I saw. Trembling with fear and starving. They said little with their words. They worked hard, no money ever changed hands, I've no doubt a bill was sent by the school each month and settled with the school. They were always in blue jeans and a white t-shirt and their hair very short. But most of what I noticed was their fear, their kindness, and an insatiable hunger. I'd never seen children of those ages so emaciated. On the days they visited, I would cry myself to sleep and worry that I would see them again. Years later, I spent time living near the Cherokee Trail of Tears. I saw in the schools where my own children attended how they Native Children, were singled out. Should your program ever open the doors to listening, I know there are other witnesses out there. Perhaps some of the missing pieces could be useful. I wish you all the best.

  • @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    @user-fl1pc7zu7f

    3 ай бұрын

    what crap, they were never starving, schools do it today why were you not out there doing your own yard work

  • @carriekeith2266
    @carriekeith2266 Жыл бұрын

    My husband is Seneca Indian from Buffalo, NY. It makes my heart hurt so much hearing stories of the horrors they have all gone through for generations at the hands of the government, for centuries. I look at our son, and can't imagine them suffering such atrocities. I asked my husband if he knows his heritage, and he knows absolutely nothing, much less the language. He knows nothing, so our son learns nothing. It's really sad. 😔💔

  • @hypnotherapycw

    @hypnotherapycw

    Жыл бұрын

    Nyah weh skenno.

  • @aka99

    @aka99

    Жыл бұрын

    Why not learn then from other natives of his own nation?

  • @krazykris4785
    @krazykris4785 Жыл бұрын

    Man's inhumanity to man..all those precious children and their families..similar thing happened over here in Australia with our Aboriginal children 💔

  • @miriamondigo6970

    @miriamondigo6970

    Жыл бұрын

    American inhumanity to cultured pple

  • @MedusasSnakePit

    @MedusasSnakePit

    Жыл бұрын

    White people*

  • @janettepettinger8439

    @janettepettinger8439

    Жыл бұрын

    This atrocity happened all over the 'discovered' world to indigenous people. I'm a true brit with grandparents from the 4 countries of UK & sadly acknowledge the awful treatment of the cultured people of other lands at the hands of 'educated' settlers from the western world. 🙏🕊

  • @freshstart4423

    @freshstart4423

    Жыл бұрын

    The Bible forbids witchcraft, idolatry and necromancy Deuteronomy 18:9. Pagans know Jesus is real but they worship the devil anyway.

  • @freshstart4423

    @freshstart4423

    Жыл бұрын

    @@miriamondigo6970 the Indians Don't build anything except they leave the Reservations to join the military, Healthcare, manufacturing, construction but then they go back to the Reservations.

  • @Tsitsi414
    @Tsitsi414 Жыл бұрын

    My heart and soul are so heavy with grief . Just imagining what those kids had to go thru to the extent that they finally passed away is just horrendous 😥

  • @SipLeila

    @SipLeila

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe disease.

  • @resourcedragon

    @resourcedragon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SipLeila: They showed a death certificate that stated that one child had died of meningitis following influenza. So, yes, disease killed some of those children. But, and it's a giant big fat but, even without antibiotics and modern medicine, a little TLC goes a long way towards helping to keep people alive. We've seen this during the COVID pandemic when people with intellectual disabilities have been dying at far higher rates than others. I seem to remember seeing a claim that something like 1/3 of the children in those Indian residential schools didn't survive. Yes, there were infectious diseases like measles that killed a lot of them - but, as I said, keeping the child comfortable and appropriately fed and, dare I say it, loved, goes a long way to reducing the mortality rate. Based on other information, it is highly likely that some of the children were killed by physical abuse. I would be astonished if there wasn't a significant level of sexual abuse. Those residential schools were run by the same sorts of organisations that abused other children, i.e. churches.

  • @KateBates22zabu

    @KateBates22zabu

    Жыл бұрын

    Kam Loops in British Columbia had 50% mortality rate. It was a planned genocide in Canada. They put healthy kids in dorms with typhus patients. Many were beaten to death..never let the state take your children away, their intentions are not in the ppl interest.

  • @wolfthequarrelsome504

    @wolfthequarrelsome504

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah . Except no bodies

  • @guardianmx8567
    @guardianmx8567 Жыл бұрын

    My grandma was an alcoholic, and she went to one of these schools. She told me about being beaten by chains and forced not to eat. She told me the ones who were abused were the ones who spoke our native language and talked about family.

  • @kristynsotelo1452
    @kristynsotelo1452 Жыл бұрын

    My great grandfather was full Blooded Kickapoo Indian. My whole life I thought he was Irish or Scottish because his last name was Collens. Just before my dads 80th birthday, dad told me the truth about g grandpa. He was Kickapoo from the Eagle Pass area of the boarder of the US and Mexico in Texas. He and his sister were taken and "re educated" they changed his name and gave him the sur name that I always knew... infuriating!

  • @silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205

    @silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205

    Жыл бұрын

    The grandmother was born on Cherokee land in Oklahoma for Central boarding school she forgot her entire language I have no idea how to even say her name they didn’t register on the roles they went by a given French name.

  • @windsong3wong828
    @windsong3wong828 Жыл бұрын

    Genocide . The past are despicable. It is important that we remember.

  • @londonman8688

    @londonman8688

    Жыл бұрын

    it is happening right now in china

  • @windsong3wong828

    @windsong3wong828

    Жыл бұрын

    @@londonman8688 Don’t believe all the lies from the western propaganda. I went to Xinjiang on hols a few years ago….it was peaceful and prosperous. How do you deal with a section of population that is radicalized and want to use bombs and terrorist acts to claim for independence ? China put the youths to re-educate them with modern skills, patriotism…and also spent billions to build factories, infrastructure…. Now they are re-educated with modern skills and getting jobs ….. Having a job, falling in love, having families, having a home ….makes a STRONG CASE AGAINST TERRORISM. But not all Uighers wants to modernize…..there may be bombs again in Xinjiang. At least it is better than Afghanistan where NATO try to do the same …..BUT FAILED. NATO just quit and ran away. 💣

  • @londonman8688

    @londonman8688

    Жыл бұрын

    @@windsong3wong828 maybe you did not go to the concentration camps Mr wong. But at least you didnt have you organs harvested or you were not sterilized

  • @windsong3wong828

    @windsong3wong828

    Жыл бұрын

    @@londonman8688 Hahahahaha. More fake news and western propaganda. Please read up the independent news. I m a Malaysian and we get good reliable news here. Do you know Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi are all Islamic nations and NOT ONE of them say there is genocide. Whereas all these countries say USA had committed genocide against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan when NATO destroyed their countries and killed millions of MUSLIMS. Every Muslim I know hate NATO …..

  • @trevorstolz8580
    @trevorstolz8580 Жыл бұрын

    I am white, blue eyes and had blond hair during my youth. I grew up on the west coast of British Colombia, where the Haida lived. I don't share the traditional religious beliefs of many native peoples. I am Christian. However, many Haida people I knew were also Christian and very devout. That is not at all to say I am in any way antagonistic to non-Christian native people. I am not. I would say, however, many aspects of native culture are very beautiful. It was the west coast Indians who had the Potlatch, the cedar masks, elaborate costumes, smoked salmon, oolichan, totem poles, long houses. When my father was a boy, he had an infection from an abrasion that would simply not heal. A native person told him to Balsam sap on it, which he did. He healed very quickly thereafter. The west coast of Canada, rich in vegetation has, I am sure, yet undiscovered (by western science at least) that native people are familiar with. I have seen native people demonstrate a level of generosity which is rare in white people. The tribal nature of the culture lends itself to generosity, even to non-native people. I am glad to see that they are working on learning their native language. It is beautiful to hear. It sounds nothing like Indo-European language. May God bless and heal them.

  • @thatwatchtower2095

    @thatwatchtower2095

    Жыл бұрын

    Their first Nations people and this is their land from sea to shining sea and you guys should leave and go home. A lot of people tried to reduce them down to Indians when you know this is not India, a lot of people try to say they’re Native Americans they were created here and that’s America’s way of trying to put a label on people like a ownership. They’re not indigenous like some kind of plant. Christ is the Lord is the alpha and the omega and every living thing is is. All these so-called Christians and Catholics that did this to them or false apostles Christ warned us and they will be going to the lake of fire. So the Lord basically is going to take care of them and their future you say because he is the one that saved the tribes thanks be to God other otherwise the white folks would’ve killed us all off by now.

  • @marjattalakso5819
    @marjattalakso5819 Жыл бұрын

    These Native American children are precious. They were treated terribly wrong in many ways. Just like the Northern Finland and Sweden indigenous Sami people that were hunters, gatherers and reindeer keepers. Similar bad things happened to them when they were forced to live in bad conditions, far away from home, for schooling, and many of them died. I have Sami ancestors and I am proud of it. I´m sending you my love and appreciation and I hope that these wonderful, precious children will be remembered with love forever.

  • @katiesiouxlamoureaux7757
    @katiesiouxlamoureaux7757 Жыл бұрын

    There were also "industrial schools" for "wayward girls and boys that were non Indian children, they were turned into juvenile prisons later on. Those children were from orphan trains and many were tortured and throw into the dirt in similar ways. This country wasn't big on caring about children, they used them and tossed them aside.

  • @tulayamalavenapi4028

    @tulayamalavenapi4028

    Жыл бұрын

    Now this country doesn't want children to even be born. In California a demoniac bill has been passed that "abortion" can be AFTER a baby is born for 28 days. The insanity is unbelievable. Why is this? And we need a video about the forced sterilization of Native American ladies/girls. Most were tricked in to having their reproductive organs screwed, ripped out, and they wouldn't know til after the operation was final.

  • @glory2910
    @glory2910 Жыл бұрын

    My fathers tale, " They would kill us, so we were Indian, when we traveled up north, because there, they hated Mexicans. We were Mexican when we were in the south because there, they hated Indians. We were what we had to be; to survive." ...God rest my people's soul.

  • @menpaw5026

    @menpaw5026

    Жыл бұрын

    FU!

  • @skindianu

    @skindianu

    Жыл бұрын

    Sometimes it's still that way.

  • @cherylpemberton1676

    @cherylpemberton1676

    Жыл бұрын

    Truth! I'm mostly Native North American. Went to a huge country bar in Northern eastern slope of Sierra Madres Mountains near old gold camps with friends; when we walked thru the door, all noises stopped, they stared at ME! My friend said, "Aw don't worry, she ain't Injun, she's a Mex'cun!" They all laughed and went back to partying!! I was astounded - this was California in mid 70's!!!!

  • @pinkiesue849

    @pinkiesue849

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cherylpemberton1676 I am astonished. Here I thought Cali was progressive.

  • @cherylpemberton1676

    @cherylpemberton1676

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pinkiesue849, That was years ago... BUT... One of my former foster sons was living in the mountains above Coarsegold, (ene of Fresno, California) and we went to visit and stay with him three summers ago. He took us to the Coarsegold Rodeo, and the women (about my age, 60's - 70's) were saying the worst things about Indians!! They said Indians are ALL drunks, and NOT ONE of them was worth or good for ANYTHING; they said the only times they ever saw Indians was while driving, and the Indians were passed out on the sides of roads!! They said MUCH worse. Then I said, "Do you think I'm worthless, or a drunk? Because I'm Indian too! Yes, unless you look closely, you'd think I was White, as my coloring is mostly that of my 1/4 White blood; but look at my bones' structure, and you'll see I'm not White!" Of course, they didn't apologize; they just huffed at me and walked away, cackling like the old hens & busybodies they were!! Sadly, it's still going on...

  • @ccbc5780
    @ccbc5780 Жыл бұрын

    It's sad to see how aggressive the invaders were to the Indian people. They took their land and had to take away everything else so that they won't have the energy, solidarity to fight and the identity to fight for anymore.

  • @phillip_iv_planetking6354

    @phillip_iv_planetking6354

    Жыл бұрын

    Human history. The Natives did the same to other tribes. But I guess that doesn't fit the narrative.

  • @jame2182

    @jame2182

    Жыл бұрын

    @@phillip_iv_planetking6354 actually it fits the narrative quite well, ABSOLUTELY NO HUMAN BEING AMONG THIS GROUP EVER ANNOUNCED OR STATED THEY DID NOT MAIM AND MURDER OTHER HUMAN BEINGS

  • @ccbc5780

    @ccbc5780

    Жыл бұрын

    Sure they might have killed or maimed too. But can you really say that this systemic kidnapping and erasing of culture is the same as your "non-narrative?" It's one thing to kill and injure in battle. It's another thing when you already won, you take up their land, and in the process say hey you know what, while were at it let's make sure they collectively throw away their identity coz it doesnt match with ours. The Indians were already there when they came!

  • @aliciamari85

    @aliciamari85

    Жыл бұрын

    @@phillip_iv_planetking6354 shove your own narrative you know where

  • @jsyo9639

    @jsyo9639

    Жыл бұрын

    @@phillip_iv_planetking6354 you and your bs justifications can shoved it.

  • @TreeFreak
    @TreeFreak Жыл бұрын

    My great grandmother was kicked off the rez for marrying an Irishman. Whenever their children tried to hang out with their cousins on the rez, the other youngsters would call my grandfather and his brothers "apples." It took many decades for my grandfather to be able to bring his grandchildren (us) to the rez for the powows. So much hatred had been directed towards him.

  • @jjdjj5392

    @jjdjj5392

    Жыл бұрын

    Reverse discrimination. There should be no hatred between anyone. This is what hatred brings. Attrocities such as this. The Irish by the way helped native peoples in north and south carolina. They hid them at their farms so the soldiers wouldnt capture them and put them thru the trail of tears. The Irish saved many lives. The natives there are not ashamed to be part Irish or have Irish last names. Remember this. Not all whites are bad. Not all blacks are bad. Not all yellow ppl are bad. And not all red people are bad. This hatred for each other has to stop no matter what color you are. The awful thing is with that hatred that it is the children who suffer the most when this hatred is carried on. These poor children the horrible trauma they must have suffered at these boarding schools. Horrible. I will pray that these precious children will be found and laid to rest properly with their people.

  • @TreeFreak

    @TreeFreak

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jjdjj5392 no such thing as reverse discrimination. There is only discrimination.

  • @sherryh7485
    @sherryh7485 Жыл бұрын

    In the mid '70s, I worked for a micrographics firm and bec I had a top secret clearance, I was selected to microfilm many documents concerning Native American children, their treatments were severe, especially the boys. Heart rending punishments bec it was difficult to change their behavior. If I remember correctly, it was the Hampton University archive documents.

  • @sharonklauser1817
    @sharonklauser1817 Жыл бұрын

    It is way past time to have this criminal behavior addressed. Stand up for our native brothers and sisters! Until we look at our past crimes we will never get over our wounds. Spiritual and emotional and physical wounds.

  • @cinnamonstar808

    @cinnamonstar808

    Жыл бұрын

    the L they took is well deserves they got stuck in🎯 bullseye of pure beige rage.. because they threw the real native BLACK nations under-the-bus, } and assume their enslavement will open the pathdoor to be the ONLY natives in the land. yes: they are all seen by the whites as "Indians" and not expat Siberians. no: they did not go in peace or live in peace. In central and South America : they ran back under the skirts of outpost black communities. AFTER THEY REALIZED they made a deal with the devil and that rage against blacks did not quince its thirst for more. 👆even today many POC people wholeheartedly believe if blacks are targeted for racism.. the violence wont reach them. and the end of the century Racism will have is final victims = and it wont be the blacks. just all the upholders of it ONE OF A TRUE UNIVERSAL LAW :💥 is what you tolerate will eventual consumes you >>all these shootings in America is because they tolerate gun violence and hatred. 💫You can only get out what you put in the identify of "INDIAN/ NATIVE" is what the coveted = AND that same ID is what made them a targeted victim

  • @shawnaweesner3759

    @shawnaweesner3759

    Жыл бұрын

    The Indian’s past crimes, I assume, you are including in this useless blame game; after all, they were committing crimes against other Indian tribes before the white man appeared, and of course, the Indian’s committed atrocities against white children, too!

  • @spiralrose

    @spiralrose

    Жыл бұрын

    I have committed no crime. Other than that, I agree with everything you said.

  • @Poshgardenherbs

    @Poshgardenherbs

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spiralrose you will pay too if your descendants we’re involved. If we still suffer, you will too soon.

  • @ravenwynde1

    @ravenwynde1

    Жыл бұрын

    This is not only past. This is very present in the now. Infiltration, blackmail, secret societies. MK

  • @easypaisa
    @easypaisa Жыл бұрын

    Happened in Canada too now that bodies of these children have been found all over...these church run schools with federal government support in those days caused anguish for countless native communities without any repercussions to the perpetrators..it was forced colonization of peoples who were attached to their culture , language and lands.... the deep scars are still visible even presently.... sick..

  • @tracesprite6078

    @tracesprite6078

    Жыл бұрын

    It is so very sad.

  • @huizhechen3779

    @huizhechen3779

    Жыл бұрын

    It happened everywhere the Catholic Church was an established state religion.

  • @debigodsey

    @debigodsey

    Жыл бұрын

    @@huizhechen3779 they have done so much damage.

  • @ravenwynde1

    @ravenwynde1

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember listening to one man that survived. He said that he remembered them making children load others into furnace. I believe it was Canada.

  • @geoffthompson6217

    @geoffthompson6217

    Жыл бұрын

    No one is stopping anyone from learning their own language iff they really want to,just do it yourself ,don't expect everyone else to be involved.that is called self determination.we all have that choice to learn or speak different languages.i am happy with just one language,but able to learn several iff I needed or wanted to.

  • @tbella5186
    @tbella5186 Жыл бұрын

    My great grandmother was one of those children put in a "boarding school". She was basically bought as a wife, her life was unimaginable.

  • @courtneywakefield1452
    @courtneywakefield1452 Жыл бұрын

    Such a tragedy. I hate that this happened but I'm glad it's finally being brought out to light and I hope you get the justice you deserve, even though there's NOTHING that will erase what happened to y'all and how you all were treated😭❤❤

  • @RoseNZieg
    @RoseNZieg Жыл бұрын

    let me guess.... some died in care, some committed suicide, some got trafficked, and some survived. no matter which century, the neglect and exploitation of children never change.

  • @jeanettehansen3310
    @jeanettehansen3310 Жыл бұрын

    So ashamed in my fellow countrymen for this tragic story. Let us do the right thing and give these families some peace with the truth!! I will never trust my government with the way they treated natives since the beginning of their so called discovery on the country. Peoples were livening and dying here for ages. They are the true founders of this country 🙏🏼💔

  • @PapiCthulu2

    @PapiCthulu2

    Жыл бұрын

    It is even more shameful that we never hear about this and it takes Australian to enlighten us to the truth

  • @cheyennetapiasmith9056

    @cheyennetapiasmith9056

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PapiCthulu2 It's not taught in schools but the story is passed on by the elders

  • @vononymous8054

    @vononymous8054

    Жыл бұрын

    Amen🙏🏼🙏🏾🙏🏼🙏🙏🏽🙏🏻

  • @PapiCthulu2

    @PapiCthulu2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cheyennetapiasmith9056 I am talking about being taught to the Caucasians

  • @jerrywilliams9208

    @jerrywilliams9208

    Жыл бұрын

    Do not blame the American government it is the American people that are to blame because they are the government everyone acts like the government is a separate entity it is not it is American citizens running the country hired by the American citizens therefore it is the American people that are to blame for this tragedy and it's the same American people that allow people to suffer today the American people did this they're all guilty each and every one of them

  • @tracker5849
    @tracker5849 Жыл бұрын

    There is a certain juvenile detention facility where kids have said for years that kids were killed...my own son was there and told me that his freind was taken late at night...he heard screams...boy was never seen again. I am SO SORRY to say...I did not believe him. Years later a burial ground was found out behind the buildings...some just dumped in a hole..some "buried" over 50 kids..so far. My son's freind was there. Breaks my heart!!! Luckily after he "talked" they moved him to a new place. I think they were worried because I went each week to see him....they knew if he "disappeared" I would not stop.

  • @angielindsay698
    @angielindsay698 Жыл бұрын

    The American Indians deserve justice ⚖ for the crimes to the humanity of their sweet children 😢 may God almighty bless you all and keep you all safe 🙏

  • @albrathwaite7074
    @albrathwaite7074 Жыл бұрын

    The ending was quite touching, seeing the young children reclaiming the language of their Ancestors, it resonates with me being an African in the diaspora living in the Caribbean.

  • @goodbuffalo811
    @goodbuffalo811 Жыл бұрын

    I learned a lot from my elders, especially my grandmothers and grandfathers, they tolded me story of horrible things and what the whiteman and whitewoman, did to our people. But thru their lives I learned my Lakota traditions and spirituality thru the Lakota language they taught me. Iam and will always be a proud Oglala Lakota man. Aho

  • @Mizz.Person
    @Mizz.Person Жыл бұрын

    The last school in Canada , closed in 1996! :( Sadly some schools, like the one in Port Alberny, BC, has paved their lands and hidden their bodies under huge parking lots. :(

  • @paulinerodock
    @paulinerodock Жыл бұрын

    I currently live in the building that Pratt started his Indian School, Young Hall, Carlisle Barracks. Where Jim Thorpe was housed. The spirits of children are everywhere.

  • @danpress7745
    @danpress7745 Жыл бұрын

    Suggested readings, 1. Thocmentony Winnemucca, a Paiute Indian born 1844. An activist for her people, an educator (founded a school for Native American children), and authored: Life Among the Paiutes. 2. Ohíye S'a (Eastman). a Santee Dakota, born 1858. Eastman was a Physician, educated at Boston University, a prolific author, an activist for his people, and helped found the Boy Scouts and YMCA. Both give some insight into the lives and thoughts of Native Americans at the time.

  • @gdoredali6038
    @gdoredali6038 Жыл бұрын

    This was a crime scene, inslavement, degradation, death. Government needs to take responsibility for hanus crimes they committed on indigenous people. Breaks my heart that we as human beings think we have the right to inslave to rip family's & cultures apart, their spirits should be freed. Government should stop at nothing to find these bodies & return them home. This broke my heart, thank you for sharing this truth.

  • @allissonjacobisaacson6190
    @allissonjacobisaacson6190 Жыл бұрын

    I'm grateful for finding this video. My husband is native American, Sioux tribe. I want our children to be aware of all their ancestors went through. Even if it's a different tribe they need to be understanding of all.

  • @freedomthief8499
    @freedomthief8499 Жыл бұрын

    MAXIMUM RESPECT TO THE TEACHER,...!!LOVE FROM ATHENS GREECE 🇬🇷!!!!

  • @catwhisperer968
    @catwhisperer968 Жыл бұрын

    Strength to you to hear your spiritual ancestors find the children and bring them home.

  • @debradelarue9717
    @debradelarue9717 Жыл бұрын

    Same thing happened in australia like serious attempt to get rid of indigenous populations. Children taken from families.

  • @gregcowen930

    @gregcowen930

    Жыл бұрын

    Still happens from what I understand

  • @pietrojenkins6901

    @pietrojenkins6901

    Жыл бұрын

    Canada too where mass graves are being discovered.

  • @rarecandy3445

    @rarecandy3445

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gregcowen930 thru the current CPS system, yes.

  • @gulaggreens296

    @gulaggreens296

    Жыл бұрын

    Not trying to get rid of, trying to teach so they can have best chance in life, education is important.

  • @chrishelmuth4065

    @chrishelmuth4065

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gulaggreens296 What part of 'that was not education, but military degradation' didn't you get? Maybe you should watch it again.

  • @beverlyannrogers3388
    @beverlyannrogers3388 Жыл бұрын

    Is there anyone that has not been miss treated all in the name of greed? This is so heartbreaking.

  • @phyllishernandez9764
    @phyllishernandez9764 Жыл бұрын

    My heart goes out to all of you with your heart felt pain with which you are challenging this act of genocide. But I was born & raised in Scottsbluff, Nebraska & worked with the legal aid system and know about so many many other atrocities as well. My heritage is Mexican. I now live in Maui, Hawaii & if there is anything or anyway I can help I’d be honored to do so. GOD REJOICES WHEN RIGHT & TRUTH PREVAILand I declare that TRUTH IS FINALLY BEING REVEALED.🙏

  • @shanasmith4176
    @shanasmith4176 Жыл бұрын

    Breaks my heart and makes me sick to know that this happened to these little children and their families May the spirits of these dear children rest in peace

  • @teamtriss
    @teamtriss Жыл бұрын

    Settler colonialism has remarkably similar methods wherever it goes.

  • @gulaggreens296

    @gulaggreens296

    Жыл бұрын

    China is trying to colonise Australia right now

  • @_JanetLouise

    @_JanetLouise

    Жыл бұрын

    yes, in Hawaii as well

  • @anchored555

    @anchored555

    Жыл бұрын

    Happened in Australia, Canada, NZ too. What do they all have in common? British colonial settlers?

  • @karinec.2131

    @karinec.2131

    Жыл бұрын

    @@anchored555 : There’s also Spain, Portugal, France and other Europeans

  • @typeorulz
    @typeorulz Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this ecxellent content. It is shameful to think of all the damage done.

  • @sharonmchugh7730
    @sharonmchugh7730 Жыл бұрын

    This is outrageous & disturbing on so many levels. I wish all these Native Indigenous people success & peace. Love & Light 💜

  • @vononymous8054
    @vononymous8054 Жыл бұрын

    I'm so saddened but so blessed see this upload. There is Native American blood in both my parents. Keep Rising,brothers and sisters ❤

  • @inokruysen649
    @inokruysen649 Жыл бұрын

    So good to see that you are able to rise up, from that horrific deranged crime. Only seeing your original strength and purity remaining trough all this, made it possible to watch this docu.

  • @jeanamorgan4769
    @jeanamorgan4769 Жыл бұрын

    The whole thing is tragic our past from the beginning of time .The things people do to each other are deplorable

  • @jammiesobley148
    @jammiesobley148 Жыл бұрын

    In Canada those children's bones at those institutions were dated as early as 20-40 years old. So some of those murderers are still walking I'll ng the earth and not being held accountable, hiding behind Catholic Church. It makes me sad and sick to my stomach the loss of life at they're hands. We need harsher laws against child preditors,Peroid!!!!

  • @wellwisher7778
    @wellwisher7778 Жыл бұрын

    No wonder there is such a battle against CRT. All reason for unspeakable embarrassment. 😔

  • @yasminkausar5186
    @yasminkausar5186 Жыл бұрын

    Mother language is very important no matter where you go what other language you speak the connection to your ancestors is sacred, it is who you are...

  • @joyyujnovich1492
    @joyyujnovich1492 Жыл бұрын

    It most likely happened in Australia as well. Same sort of thing was done here. It’s heart breaking and truly sad. 💔😡😪

  • @MrZakatista

    @MrZakatista

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh it did / does.

  • @teshosborne1059
    @teshosborne1059 Жыл бұрын

    Be it anything like they found here in Kamloops is sickening to say the least,to have this happen to children who just wanted to go home .. 😔

  • @carliclark1827
    @carliclark1827 Жыл бұрын

    Let's not forget the role the catholic church played in this genocide

  • @gennyshangin3068
    @gennyshangin3068 Жыл бұрын

    I remember stories from my dad, grandad and aunt and uncles about children who were taken and never return no one knew where they were or what happen. My spirit is sad when I heard these stores even now more so. My dad came off Turtle mountain in north Datka

  • @neitherpartypatriotsusa7841
    @neitherpartypatriotsusa7841 Жыл бұрын

    These stories are very hard to watch, very heart breaking to say the least. This is why I have always said that Government can NEVER be trusted!!! All governments have severe blood on their hands for their disgusting deeds.

  • @melissafarrugia9531
    @melissafarrugia9531 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the coverage of this. Thanks for leaving comments open. Huge condolences and prayers for Everyone impacted by the crimes committed against the indigenous people. Only One hundred years prior to me attending grade two, that "school" was opened! The truth about it all is being revealed only now. May the language of the people continue to be strengthened.

  • @yolandacombs4639
    @yolandacombs4639 Жыл бұрын

    I grew up like this it brakes one spirit .I wish I could find my tribe I come from .Proud to be an INDIAN.

  • @yolandacombs4639

    @yolandacombs4639

    Жыл бұрын

    11 yrs in a boarding school I was 4 yrs so yes I don't know my people , so you don't have the right to say anything .Your an anger one. I was separated from my brothers and sister as well my parents.

  • @nickiewilson6985
    @nickiewilson6985 Жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Port Alberni, B.C, during the 60's scoop and went to school with many boarded out student's. Even Chief Judith Sayers who told Trudeau off for going on a holiday on Truth & Reconciliation Day. I'm Metis Coast Salish, and when the 215 body's were found, I researched my Father's Penaluket history. My GGGrandmother Tutsumutsa Edenshaw aka Mary Warren William's was interned to Kuper Island. She survived to be the oldest native to die on Vancouver Island in 1931 at 104. My GGGrandfather was Captain James Douglas Warren, he came from P.E.I. in 1858. He opened up the Trade Routes around Vancouver Island, & owned the S.S.Beaver that sunk at Prospect Point in 1888. My Aunt Sarah Warren was a Matriarch of the Songhess, and King Freezys Great Grandaughter. She was interned to SARDIS, B.C. She was the 1st person to win back the RIGHT'S for The Traditional Mask Dance in 1950. Sarah's Granddaughter Myrna Elliot gifted her Homemade Blanket to Mr Hall last summer. He's the New President of The University of Victoria. Last week at the Vancouver Island University Chief Judith Sayers, Gifted Mr K.Hall again with a Talking Stick. Hopefully in Honour of Truth & Reconciliation. 🇨🇦 in

  • @pinkiesue849

    @pinkiesue849

    Жыл бұрын

    There is a lot of strength in your family.

  • @nickiewilson6985

    @nickiewilson6985

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pinkiesue849 Many of my cousin graduated from Victoria University this week, Doctorates, , Language and Knowledge Keepers. They honoured our GGGram, apparently she was the only treaty holder native in Esquimalt, and helped kept it unceded.

  • @pauale10
    @pauale10 Жыл бұрын

    Why isn’t this more out there? This is so sickening everyone should know about this

  • @annm.7176
    @annm.7176 Жыл бұрын

    My relatives were sent back east to school from the Sioux Iowa trouble. One came back and attorney another one came back a social worker so if had his good qualities too.

  • @eleanorj2728
    @eleanorj2728 Жыл бұрын

    That teachers word about reversing things was so powerful

  • @tinangamu5920
    @tinangamu5920 Жыл бұрын

    Searching for their children , in the ground, how disgusting, in the 21st century. I, myself heard about some of these genocide events years ago, as did millions of the world, how sad cruel

  • @hyunki0510
    @hyunki0510 Жыл бұрын

    This needs more views. We cannot bury this history and the American people need to be fully aware.

  • @juliehattis
    @juliehattis Жыл бұрын

    Wow this is so sad. I can't believe I've never heard of this being a descendent of the Native American People. I'm really into my heritage. 😢 I'd love to learn more.

  • @susancross3935
    @susancross3935 Жыл бұрын

    I am so glad that they are learning their traditions and language again! This was a terrible stain on our history. Keep up the good work telling this truth, everyone needs to know.

  • @kodiakbearsteve4646
    @kodiakbearsteve4646 Жыл бұрын

    Native Americans and not Indians Americans. Get it right

  • @MisstressMourtisha

    @MisstressMourtisha

    Жыл бұрын

    They don't care

  • @ninemoonplanet

    @ninemoonplanet

    Жыл бұрын

    That's correct, there were 20 million people living in North America, First Nations. 100% of all North America was occupied, long before any "settlers" or sailors "discovered" it.

  • @jennifertiitinen9006
    @jennifertiitinen90062 ай бұрын

    I’m so glad that you take time to teach the language. It’s so hard to preserve . It’s so special

  • @dominickray5103
    @dominickray5103 Жыл бұрын

    I would like to see the Native American culture return. I believe their ancestors connection to nature is vital.

  • @spidermoth1170
    @spidermoth1170 Жыл бұрын

    CRIME SCENES so CORRECT

  • @cherylpemberton1676
    @cherylpemberton1676 Жыл бұрын

    I'm mostly Native North American. Went to a huge country bar in Northern eastern slope of Sierra Madres Mountains near old gold camps with friends; when we walked thru the door, all noises stopped, they stared at ME! My friend said, "Aw don't worry, she ain't Injun, she's a Mex'cun!" They all laughed and went back to partying!! I was astounded - this was California in mid 70's!!!!

  • @tammiebroggins

    @tammiebroggins

    Жыл бұрын

    As long as breeds keep claiming there white blood we are done for! The whites have us where they want us! One drop of Native blood makes you a Native! If you can prove your line . You should stand up and be proud

  • @cherylpemberton1676

    @cherylpemberton1676

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tammiebroggins, Yes IF; ams I've written before, I have researched thoroughly through The Mormons, & the Murray Federal Building in OKC just a few days before the explosion. I KNOW what my elders told me, they did not lie; plus, one look at me face and it's obvious I'm at least 5/8 Native North American: Blackfeet & Osage on my mother's side & Cherokee on my father's.

  • @tammiebroggins

    @tammiebroggins

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cherylpemberton1676 hello I'm Caddo and black foot on my father's side. Apache and Ojibwe on my mother's . And all the elders have said are starting to come true! Standing with Standing Rock!

  • @cherylpemberton1676

    @cherylpemberton1676

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tammiebroggins, I've just come across your comment. THANK YOU for it, I also do 100% believe what our elders have been telling us for more than a century: SEVEN GENERATIONS, right? You stay safe & healthy, I am hearing more & more that these idiots in DC are really close to staying WWIII, and it's got good chances of being 'NUKULAR' (as idiots Bush & Obama call it); if it does, I hope at least most of our people survive, they can start to set things right!!

  • @dianekratschmer-chilon6757
    @dianekratschmer-chilon6757 Жыл бұрын

    Good to see this coverage and these efforts being made.

  • @ea4602
    @ea4602 Жыл бұрын

    God bless you all. I pray these babies are found and give the proper burial. If I lived back then I would have said something. God bless you and it's wonderful that you are keeping you language, traditions and ppl alive.

  • @londonman8688
    @londonman8688 Жыл бұрын

    funny how Australians seem to think Canada is different to Australia .. it isn't

  • @yubchan6768
    @yubchan6768 Жыл бұрын

    So sad, so much grief. Aho Mitayuke Oyasin! 🙏🏼☯️💕

  • @paranihiaanaru4414
    @paranihiaanaru4414 Жыл бұрын

    The language IS the culture. Maori in New Zealand created Kohanga Reo in 1982 within the pre-school age children as young as 2 years old, and Maori models of health were begun in 1984. The ideas and values were very similar to that which Redwing Thomas is teaching. Kohanga were established nationwide and in less than 10 years there were 630 units operating. But the ideas and some local bodies were begun much earlier, in the '60's. That the USA had not enabled First Nation language schools had been due to political barriers. First Nation peoples are not the only ones concerned about loss of language/culture, but is felt in, for example, Wales and Ireland. We wish Redwing and others all the very best in their endeavours

  • @Kathyaaybeauty
    @Kathyaaybeauty12 күн бұрын

    This was informative and so well done. Blessings and healing to all.

  • @nathanielanderson4898
    @nathanielanderson4898 Жыл бұрын

    Schools in the United States should offer classes that teach Native American languages and culture. And we should do something about the crimes against humanity that were committed against the Native Americans.

  • @jennybailey3152
    @jennybailey3152 Жыл бұрын

    He is correct about language, I am a proud descendant of Ireland, our home was invaded constantly thru out millenia than the English came. The murdered us by the 10s of millions the survivors of the massacres and the famines were shipped out as prisoners and convicts. Most for trying to form rebellions. Oops our bad lol said no Irish man ever. I'm also very much proud to say that to this day we have never surrendered.. guess what in 1918 another family member started another one ! Today in a foreign country I teach my children of their heritage of a land they have never seen of a dream we call home. We are relearning our native language. He is right it resignates with your soul, it's who we are. If it meant nothing they would not have taken it.

  • @PHlophe

    @PHlophe

    Жыл бұрын

    Jenn, irish-english = same thing , love. after all the irish were second in command in the west indies during slavery and here in america also,.

  • @jennybailey3152

    @jennybailey3152

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PHlophe ni sheasann na Sasanaigh faoi scáth chlann mhac ná iníon Éibhir. i bhfad roimh na Normannaigh bhíomar ann , i bhfad sular tháinig na Lochlannaigh . is sinne an bhunlíne a d'fhill an portach giúis freisin. tháinig na hAlbanaigh ónár bhfréamh! níor throid na mílte míle fada mar is teaghlach sinn freisin. Is féidir leat ár géineolaíocht a leanúint tríd go dtí an basque! grúpa an-neamhghnách go deimhin. na Gréagaigh ársa ar a dtugtar hibernia. Ní cuimhin liom plato ag lua an Bhéarla?. Gréagaigh i bhfad níos sine ná an Róimh. an bhfuil teanga ársa ag na Sasanaigh le do thoil? no roimh an nua-Bhéarla bhain siad úsáid as an Laidin a bhí rómhánach ní normálta. é seo a scríobh mé i mo theanga dhúchais chun cabhrú leat a fheiceáil. tá na hÉireannaigh fós ag troid. go leor grá a Breen

  • @tracesprite6078

    @tracesprite6078

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@jennybailey3152 It's wonderful that you wrote that in your beautiful native language. No wonder you are so proud of it.

  • @skindianu

    @skindianu

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jennybailey3152 tell it!

  • @mumsie8578

    @mumsie8578

    Жыл бұрын

    @Jenny Bailey I have Irish blood and basque too in my DNA. Thank you for sharing what you did, I learnt something new 🥰

  • @James-jz1vd
    @James-jz1vd Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Brother for your dedication.

  • @fionabrophy1720
    @fionabrophy1720 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. So shocking, sad and moving. May the truth be revealed.

  • @realessayog6947
    @realessayog6947 Жыл бұрын

    I remember BARELY as an undergraduate college student probably 20-21 when I was told about this. Of course, it was grazed over and not in detail bit we all knew how dirty the history of this country was

  • @5thribroarn304

    @5thribroarn304

    Жыл бұрын

    America was infiltrated by most of the culprits, just like with every other Country on the Planet. Find out who was actually there running them. And sure, they used American Taxdollars, but not necessarily Americans to do their dirty work. Check out Kamloop Indian Residential School in Canada and Keven Annett's Research and Reporting. He took down the Vatican establishment in Rome.

  • @Aussietari
    @Aussietari Жыл бұрын

    It is a Stain on our Mutual History here in 🇦🇺Australia, the 🇺🇸U.S.A. &. 🇨🇦Canada, &. our Governments need to make Reparation.😥

  • @fvalemus5377

    @fvalemus5377

    Жыл бұрын

    Now sanction yourself, or admit yourself for doing genocide!

  • @gulaggreens296

    @gulaggreens296

    Жыл бұрын

    Why don't you do something about it then?

  • @AbduladheemDayimani

    @AbduladheemDayimani

    Жыл бұрын

    Also South Africa.

  • @ninemoonplanet

    @ninemoonplanet

    Жыл бұрын

    🇨🇦 we are. The First Nations people are the ones who decide what reparations, what truths, what history and school children are taught. Right now two of the higher levels of government are putting millions toward the finding of unmarked graves, using ground penetrating radar, expertise, and recoding the knowledge of the elders. First Nations people have their own schools, medical services, and many elders teaching about regenerating the lands and languages.

  • @londonman8688

    @londonman8688

    Жыл бұрын

    it has happened all throughout history and is happening right now in china and ukraine

  • @juliebigheartthompson3440
    @juliebigheartthompson3440 Жыл бұрын

    "Oklahoma was home to more Indian boarding schools than any other state. The federal government said that unmarked burial sites were found at more than 50 Indian boarding schools. They also said more than 500 children died while at these schools and they expect that count to go up."

  • @christiebiscuts2340
    @christiebiscuts2340 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for putting it out there. When I saw what happened to the native children here in Canada I wept. How absolutely disgraceful of those in the hierarchy to place humans like me, you, politicians Dr's, lawyers in a situation like these poor children I never realized that the American govt. did the same as the Canadian govt. I ask forgiveness. No I didn't do it but it's a disgrace. Sent w love🇨🇦