Investigation Into Native American Boarding Schools In Indiana | WTHR Documentary
Native American children lost their lives at two boarding schools in Indiana between 1883 and 1895. As the U.S. Department of the Interior makes plans to release the result of their investigation into these institutions, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources is taking a closer look at how many more children remain unaccounted for in grave sites across the state.
In this WTHR documentary, Digital Reporter Madison Stacey revisits this overlooked period of Indiana history.
00:00 The Journey of Zitkala-Ša
02:43 Curriculum of brutality
08:01 White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute
12:54 St. Joseph's Indian Normal School
19:07 'We Still Know So Little' » Watch more WTHR 13News:Watch Live and On-Demand Videos on WTHR | Indianapolis, Indiana | wthr.com
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This treatment should be considered child trafficking
Thanks to Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior who pushed to investigate these brutal murders, finding and discovering the graves of these precious Indigenous children.
Native American's and Canada's First Nation's were lead to culture, separation to genocide. My GGGrandfather Captain James Douglas Warren came from P.E.I., in 1885 and opened up the Trade Routes around Vancouver Island to the Haida Gwaii. This weekend our family put up a carving at the Sannich Elementary School in VICTORIA, B.C. To honour or GGGram Tossimitsa Edenshaw, she was a Chief's daughter from the Haida Gwaii. She survived Kuper Island, to become the oldest native to die on it in 1931 at 104. Tutsumutsa aka Mary Warren William's, was the only Women First Nation's Treaty Holder. Lucky my Penaluket Father passed this on as most was unbeknownst till 20 years ago. This is the truth, and has to have reconciliation, and Indian Act Dissolved & hold the Catholic and other churches accountable.
This was slavery.
"Then I lost my spirit." That's what they were after from the start.
Please don't let this story disappear... this needs to be a constant reminder of the atrocities committed here. 😢
@strikeru.s.m.c.8771
Жыл бұрын
AND YOUR ANCESTORS WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND JUST AS MY PEOPLE HAD TO PAY FOR OUR ANCESTORS TURNING FROM YAHUAH THE ONE YOUR RELIGION CALLS "GOD" YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING!.
Every one of those children's face showed the horror they experienced. Those children were truly in the hands of the beast.
@StarLight-sl9ok
Жыл бұрын
It was truly a savage system. So many people in this world still suffering from the horrors of colonialism.
@m.holmes4915
Жыл бұрын
@@StarLight-sl9ok Unfortunately that Beast still walks this planet raping, stealing , enslaving and killing our children.
@onewotldgovernmentonlywhen9044
Жыл бұрын
When it says forced into Christianity it really means Roman Catholic not evangelical or Pentecostal or baptist Christianity. They also did this to Hispanics
@m.holmes4915
Жыл бұрын
@@StarLight-sl9ok Yes, many people, including children still suffer from the horrors of this Beast colonialism.
@Brandon-er1tw
6 ай бұрын
Public schools... Very different in description... Ran with similarity after similarity.... And private schools are no different a lot of the time
When they check for graves, make sure that land is historically surveyed, or the grave detectors will count other structures underground when they use them....it's hush hush in Canada, because the numbers are so high. This does not hinder the fact of atrocities...but let it be accurate for truth sakes.
Another Holocaust .. Systematically ethnic cleansing and if children died in the process so be it... This makes my soul hurt.
@anisajones2028
Жыл бұрын
The holocaust they choose to hide.
This just hurts my heart
This saddens my heart, knowing that I live in a state, where my own people were treated so bad, it hurts me to the core💔😪
@lapislazulii141
Жыл бұрын
Caucasians are your people as well
@cielonehellofaservicedog4648
Жыл бұрын
@@lapislazulii141 Caucasian refers to the ethnic and brown people of the Caucus Steppe of Eurasia....that isn't the British, french, spanish, irish, scottish, norwegian, swedish, dutch, german, etc. of ppl that make up "white" ppl in the USA/Canada...
@y9ri
Жыл бұрын
@@lapislazulii141 caucasians are not white. they are asian, white people just wanted to be different
@TheNorthFace-qm7vh
9 ай бұрын
@@cielonehellofaservicedog4648Cauc-asians are white lol
@Brandon-er1tw
6 ай бұрын
Yes! I was born in Jasper Indiana, while living near Bristow Indiana... Why natives love this land is easy to see.. I'm currently in Owensboro KY.... And even visiting Mammoth cave...with all it's similarities to southern Indiana caves/Forrest... It's still SO different.... My love of the land is easy to understand
This is Catholicism in the European world. They did this wherever they went and colonised.
Native Americans and Black people have suffered dearly at the hands of these sick people.
Excellent documentary! Thank you for getting such important stories to wider audiences 💖
These children were little human beings. I just don't understand how people could do this to another human. It's horrifying!
@StarLight-sl9ok
Жыл бұрын
Pure evil, in the name of God.
@chrish564
Жыл бұрын
They painted them as savage animals so that they wouldn't see them as humans. No words can capture just how horrible that is.
Can you post a follow up after the DNR investigates and determines how many are buried?
@WTHR13News
2 жыл бұрын
Of course!
@susanparrott5175
Жыл бұрын
@@WTHR13News Yes! please do.
Heartbreaking, especially that religious folks could be so cruel. The Catholics have made quite a name for themselves over the years. I am a recovering catholic. Many prayers for my Native brothers and sisters. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@verlindaallen3335
Жыл бұрын
"I am a recovering catholic " that really got me. Realized we're all recovering from something. God help us all. Pray ephesians 6:10-18 over your mind 🙏
@Optimismus53
Жыл бұрын
that's why so many people in europe are leaving the catholic church. 1500 years of coercion, exploitation and brutality are enough.
@idahohoosier8989
Жыл бұрын
@@nicoleorton5299 Exactly! Blessings, glad y'all freed yourself. If y'all don't have a great Bible church, message me. Love mine! Harvest Church in downtown Meridian. Blessings
@idahohoosier8989
Жыл бұрын
@@Optimismus53 very evil organization for sure
@latishiabedwards1423
8 ай бұрын
If I see a Catholic I'm running the other way.
What did you expect? Indiana didn't stop lynching( murder) parties until the fifties. So I can only imagine what these European Americans did to these American children.
This is so sad and breaks my heart.
Some cultures protest. We Indians. Our forefathers suffered greatly. We pray 🙏
@Thebeekeeper568
2 ай бұрын
That's the problem if any group should be put protesting it should be the native Americans.
It's crazy to listen to this I was one of them children that Indiana through around from group home to group home
@nobody8328
Жыл бұрын
Please record your story for future generations 🙏🏻 ❤️
What happened to my family is nothing less than evil. But what can we do today that happened yesterday? We don't forget the ones we lost at the hands of the "colonists" and those who were stolen and taken to a boarding school from hell, we remember them and make them proud, remember why we don't have a word for goodbye.. Isn't there ground penetrating radar available these days?? Wouldn't hurt to use something like that, cause if they were hiding a lot of deaths then I would think that it's quite possible that there would be unmarked graves plotted around the places..
@alicel3992
Жыл бұрын
Adam, They used such equipment to find graves of Holocaust victims, they should use it for the purposes of locating these graves so they can be repatriated into their tribes and be buried according to their customs. It should be done. The US government has an obligation here. Even though the ones who ordered and committed these wrongs are not here, at least we can correct this by locating those graves.
@adampetrie621
Жыл бұрын
@@alicel3992 I agree 100% those poor kids and young adolescents should be bought back to where their umbilical cord is buried. That's one of our burial customs...
This is one State. How horrifying and what terrible times. So heartbreaking :(
@LilMsMixed52
Жыл бұрын
It's not just one state or country! The whites did this all over America and Canada!
@alicel3992
Жыл бұрын
Where is the comment, censorship demons? Tsk tsk. Shame on you!!
@charleshanks6186
Жыл бұрын
408 schools in 37 states...catholic schools were probably some the the most brutal and most sexually abusive..
It is disgusting with the US government and the religious churches done to these people.
@CandyCoated96
Жыл бұрын
Religious churches? This country has Horus on its Seal. Think deeper. The pyramid is on the dollar bill. George Washington made it known that he wanted the White House to be specifically built as a triangle🔺️. Every president throwing the 🤘 pledge of brotherhood is not accidental. It never was about the church. Science was discovered right before they left Europe during the Renaissance era. The triangular trade would snatch resources for Asia, Middle East and European Nations. European colonizers would set off toward the America's to discover a land with no infrastructure. This would lead to the enslaved building a nation with their blood and sweat. They wanted to create a country built on their own ideologies and to serve their needs alone. And they did. The Natives have been silenced, stripped of resources and given alcohol, disease and poverty to self destruct.
History is vital
Wow I was sentenced to what's Institute when I was about 15 years old and I never knew that even when I was there they don't teach any of that horrible history of that place
How can i find out if my grandmother a modoc band piankashaw or any of her family were sent to whiteʻs school?
They took everything those poor kids had. Everything that made them who they were. Extremely atrocious.
I was in that children's home in Indiana it's in Wabash Indiana
It takes a brave soul to stand and go along with the direction of the same school that is abusing your own blood, yet a stronger soul to keep all those events organized on timelines to later account for the portions that made up others lives. She carried the Truth and for that she will always remain protected by warriors. The funding was initially served out under the names, St. Joseph and Rensselaer, without an assigned location and only a name sitting next to the pool of funding, similar boarding schools under the same names began propping up. For instance St Joseph's Villa in Rochester NY where my son was forced to go in 2009-2011, was previously an indian boarding school. Another can be found in Rensselaer New York by Troy New York. In conducting research on these places, you will be surprised at how they all got started under a similar name and how the funding was used to build more and more of the same, later used for other white privileges and purposes. Many destroyed along the way, making the ability to locate them all, impossible. Blue Prints for ongoing abuse. A reflection would be the Cash For Kids Scandal in Pennsylvania.
@doveleboeuf6625
Жыл бұрын
How horrified the blessed children must've been!! How could so called Christians do this to children!!! The shakers to me were just a cult, like amish, Mennonites!! Cults!! Torturing children and destroying their culture!! How dare they???
@truthteller4665
Жыл бұрын
@@doveleboeuf6625 We probably differ on that word, Blessed, to me a person who is Blessed goes through life unscaved where violence is perhaps an odd occurrence where they were scolded and tones raised above a yell, where little to no obstacles stand in their way and they are allowed to live, normal, happy, productive lives and if any unsettling things occur, there are plenty of people standing by their side to protect them. I was not Blessed in this lifetime, nor were my children. I like how you bring up Cults, because I have found that each community in the US operates much like Cults in that they are directed to do the things they do to others by a Board of Supervisors, much like in your common day workplace you have a supervisor that directs the work flow, these community supervisors direct the government employees on what they need to do to keep funding coming into their communities. They actually believe that they need to justify their jobs and the amount of funding they take, but in all reality there is no one watching or monitoring these people, for if there were, dont you think we would see more accountability? More government employees losing their jobs? More reductions in pay? And of course my all time favorite which is proof in their pudding, we'd see all that extra funding used to pay down the national debt to help reduce costs associated with inflation. I have never seen any of these things in my lifetime and I'm almost 60 years old. We're slaves to a system designed to put all the luxuries in life on the government employee side. My favorite sights, where I watch and wait (www.usdebtclock.org)(www.seethroughny.net)
@msboon6078
Жыл бұрын
@@truthteller4665 your screen same is appropriate!. What you've said needs to be repeated everywhere. I hope it's ok I've copied and will paste it to my phone's wallpaper to refer back to. You are a hero of true words spoken against evil.
And the findings of these investigations will be buried too ??
I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana can you please tell me where the innocent children grave stones are? I need to pray over them please? I have so much sadness over the babies who did not need to be treated in any shameful way. I think this might be why I cry at powwows and get a heavy feeling on my shoulders of weight and physically pulls down on me
These children that never survived are crying out for justice crying out to go home back to thier family they deserve justice and church and goverment records need to be made public to thier familys the survivors need answers to what happened to thier loved ones ❤❤❤❤❤❤
A horrible legacy what a wonderful collection of pictures documenting the story
When I was 16 I was sent too whites family services in 2018 for a probation violation and I had to stay there for 11 months of my life until I escaped in 2019. I’m 3/4ths native being mostly Blackfoot. My program was only suppose to be 3 months but they wouldn’t start my program until I cut my hair. When it started to grow back past my ears and my eyebrows they wouldn’t allow me to continue progressing in my program until I cut it again. They tried too force Christianity on me, sending me to a mandatory chapel 3 times a week. And if I decided not to go they would send me too the “refocus unit” which is basically isolation and force me too watch an “educational video” They still try to destroy culture there. I’m so thankful God allowed me too leave that place. Thankyou for spreading awareness on this, I remember seeing the pictures of natives with there hair cut standing in front of white men and thinking how wrong it is that this place is still in business doing the same practices.
Oh , blood of my blood, oh my relations… my prayer is, let the generations heal from these atrocities 😢 let us become better, and bigger than all the pain. Spiritual recovery on a mass human level is needed desperately. Love. We need more love
I am Mayan Indian born in Indiana.
For Summer to be filmed dancing in front of a red barrel that says “for sale,” is an implication that the child was sold. To get a child to go with a stranger, I guess she would have to be drugged.
For the survivors my heart breaks in many pieces for you and your loved ones 😢😢😢😢
@kritikasingh9831
Жыл бұрын
My heart is sore for those who where murdered there too
The trail of tears 😢 myself i'am a mutt but I've Cherokee Blood line Blue eyed Cherokee from the eastern part of n.c.
This history is pure horror. I am descended from Native Americans. So who were the actual savages here???
@asherrhodes
Жыл бұрын
Whites
Only a few movies show about this. Bury my heart at wounded knee, Anne with an e, indian horse and 1923 to name a few.They need to show more of these. This is a very sad history.
I want to get involved with this lament long overdue!
@brendamyers7019
Жыл бұрын
Investigate Bethany Christian, still child trafficking with American gov. Run by catholics.
Shameful evil showing who's the 'savage'.
The people who killed these people are in hell.....
But the truth come out and let it be written in the history books so that we learn the truth
Keep in mind that the devil masquerades as an angel of light so don't think all Christians are Christians and moreso aren't than are.
Breaks my heart and so wrong. What can we do.?
This happened with many Alaskan native children too in the early 1900's.
So so sad! How can you just kidnap these children!
ONE day Soon!
I suffered Corporate🔗Iatrogenic's Exploitation, False Imprisonment, Excessive Force, Malfeasance manipulated Personal Injuries by egregious lethal or allergic drugs, starvation, dyhations, unwarranted and unwanted chemicals, hospital Restraints, and Criminal Death- Murdered.
What can we do to help
This is sad and awful I don't wish this upon anyone I went to school with native Americans and I don't understand why any of this occurred this is all awful
Hi thanks for this subject matter but somthing similar happened to me so i have understanding about it good luckbon the next subjects
It's so sad
We are not our ancestors but we can change what we do going forward now! Let us make a difference ❤
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The American Indians are such beautifull people and so wise......
"ghosts of the children of tomorrow..."
I hate that they were treated that way and it breaks my heart ❤️
Sad
10:15am- *proud of who I am* 10:30am- {lunch break} 10:40am- *eating crow* & nothing to wash it down with
I’m Christian but not Roman Catholic. Big difference
@njandrews4105
Жыл бұрын
Keep coping
This is horrific. Why are the not getting the bodies and giving them a proper burial especially in Canada. Should they not make 100% sure that's what the ground radar is detecting first.
Rip 😇 👼 😇 👼 😇 👼 😇 👼 😇 👼 angel's
Run to the hills. Run for your life.
Quick question who is going to pay for these crimes? (It was a long time ago and those involved are dead)
@brendamyers7019
Жыл бұрын
The catholic religion is still alive and still working with American Federal government, Bethany Christian, still child trafficking.
This is so terrible. Poor girl, I feel so much for her suffering. People were so cruel in the old days. Cynthia Allen McLaglen
And in Hawaii and Canada and all other countries that have indigenous cultures.
The horror oh the horror
Indigenous Lives Matter!❤
My heart is dying now
Those that inflicted torcher and death of these children will be judged by the creator when each and every one of these people meet with him
I could tell you so much truth having the only granchidren of a generational family of the DNA of white royalty still in goverment till today, I found out so much truth by living threw it and finding my own who hated me in the begining as I never had native father yet never even met another native sadly my husband told me truth till learning about how sick his parents were and his arrogence that came threw DNA as even my children raised learning there Ojibwe culter going to cerimonies while I left there father when enough was enough, taking in many children with a key and my own room at there public school as I shadowed my children having less then a gr 5 myself out by 14 after yrs of running , So much I learned and lived threw,
@brendamyers7019
Жыл бұрын
God Bless. Healing hands on you. American government SICK.
@tamarapurplesweetgrassmacg1175
Жыл бұрын
@@brendamyers7019 Your so right, when they killed our people & sent us to rezadental schools & adopted or fostered us out to non native people who had that racist mind set kill the indian save the man Creator & our ansestors are know all our proficies that are coming to pass as a people who heal the land pray over her & everything on her who know how to bring the rain . when the old ones have died & many having no language or teachings from over 200 yrs of this as a 60`s scoop native I got some reparation with thousands of others for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY , William Coombs Kanloops Oct, 10 1964 charged the queen for there picnic the smart group. we are over 4K graves in Canada with no help from Goverment finding kids that never came home & KathyI. as well as Robin`s Hood & 5280 SKYWATCH PHOTOGRAPHY as well as SEAN HROSS , who have been putting out truth with many others for years , People need to take back power b4 it`s too late as 5280 speaks on Lake M3D3 that will take out water & electricity for many, There plans on there A.I. City`s are coming while people thing Trump or Consevatives in canada is there hope. the goverment is the problem as they have there underground or like Obama who has a double bus full of propaine on Marthas Vinyard, while millions will be without water & electricity. NET MOST WANTED is good also. much respect kindness & blessings
@trailrider2571
Жыл бұрын
I have no idea what you are saying. Write better.
@tamarapurplesweetgrassmacg1175
Жыл бұрын
@@trailrider2571 Kurimeo Ahau, his channel as there are many more, Kathy Irvin has put together SSHEA & the JETSUNS for her people in there lands in america as 60`s scoop in canada we`ll be getting the final pt of the lawsuit as well as alot of places are know honnering some of the sites as well as continue digging many more of the rezadental schools over 4K childrens bodies have been found in British Columbia & pt of Alberta there are many more schools children never came home from,We basicly got Canada to see the land was built on CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, When I see know how this was all done to take away our culter language families and make sure we breed with non natives by being an apple as when you are the only 1 and told so many lies beatten & made to be ashamed of who you are told your lucky to be choosen yet the trama & lack of love & protection as I did it even found parenting classes I took as I never wanted to hit my child & since the abuse was so sick & twisted I made sure I got councling as well as parenting and by marrying the son of a libral catholic jesuit political world leader I saw the truth in 89 & saw goverment church , state & helthcare. we were just a stepping stone for there NWO it wasn``t just our children & culter know there going after everyones freedome. much kindness & respect
do you not know that the wicked shall not inherit the kingdom of god, i corinthians 6 v 9 for satan himself comes to us as an angel of light, therefore it is no great thing if his ministers come to us as ministers of righteousness, 2 corinthians 11 v 14
Kizılderililer dünyanın en mazlum haklıdır tabii onlar kadar acı çeken halklar vardır 😭😭
YAHUAH SAYS THAT "THOSE WHO ENSLAVED SHALL BE SLAVES!" AND "THOSE WHO WERE KILLED WITH THE SWORD SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD!." GET READY EUROPEANS IN AMERICA AND THROUGHOUT THE EARTH YAHUAH THE GOD OF THE BIBLE DOESN'T LIE!!. "VENGEANCE IS MINE SAITH YAHUAH!." SHALOM ❤️ FAMILY 🦁🕎🙏🏿🤴🏿❤️
They never even said, "Thanks."
I just found out my great grandmother was French indian in illinois in the late 1800's. I have no name or what tribe she was from or her mother.
Were they Protestant or Catholic?
What could happen if the parents didn't agree to give their child?
Every single state played a role in this brutal history
Theres crime scenes every where these schools existed and these crime scenes need investigateing and remains of these children should be dna d and remains should be sent to be properly honoured and laid to rest with loved ones and any records need to be released to all family s THE PUBLIC DEMAND THIS NOW !!!!!
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Educational systems ...?environmental conditioning roomers...?
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Im Australian but i am so sorry and sad that this happened to your people. Always have done always will. Ive always had a love and deep respect for the Native American.
@njandrews4105
Жыл бұрын
Go hug a aboriginal
@goodthoughts2252
Жыл бұрын
@@njandrews4105 oooh I do 🤗 my foster sister and her three gorgeous daughters love hugs & giggles. They light up my life ❤️💙💚💜
Their faces are so sad. Shameful part of history.
Did any Blacks who were members of the Five Civilized Tribes(through slavery) have to attend those boarding schools like Native Americans did? What about people in the Shinnecock tribe of Long Island NY?
@CassandraJay
2 ай бұрын
No, there’s no record of blacks attending the schools. Slavery was outlawed fully by 1865. The first Indian school opened in 1879.
Carlisle
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Shout out to Mayor Lori Lightfoot good job sir
@cynthiaperry8272
Жыл бұрын
You're a bully
All this land needs to be given back to them!! Stop allowing them to continue to gentrify everything!
Why they always gotta SA the kids?
"what is done cannot be undone"... but CORRECTIONS & REDRESS CAN BE DONE, REDEEM the scattered descendants for PROPER REPARATIONS from washington and the vatican... RESTORE THE LATEST DESTROYED CITIES in iraq libya syria afghanistan... palestine still at war...
Horrible
MY PEOPLE 😢STILL LOST CULTURE MOST MY PEOPLE THINK THEIR BLACK /AFRICAN AMERICANS WHEN THIS IS OUR PEOPLE 🤦🏽♀️ 😢 #cherokee& Creek tribe 💕💕💕
@njandrews4105
Жыл бұрын
This is incorrect if you are African-American with zero connection to tribe..cultural genocide took place on plantations for blacks not boarding schools.. stop the identity theft you are part of the problem not the solution
@asherrhodes
Жыл бұрын
Well it's not black peoples falut it's whites, because they sent you to the camps and they striped YOU from your culture, just like they did with black people in slavery
Shock therapy!!!
Another horror by those arrogant self-righteous people who committed atrocities in the name of Christianity, obviously not following Jesus' teachings of Love but following the dogma of the church. Hope they enjoy their "life review" !
@asherrhodes
Жыл бұрын
Well god doesn't exist it's just a social white conditioning that you've been tought, before Christianity and the white conditioning we all believed in our own god's and spirits