The Reckoning: Native American Boarding Schools’ Painful History Unearthed

[@Cabledeluz1977]

My grandmother will be 93 in a month. All my life she talked about the boarding schools, the nuns, the priests and how horrific the whole experience was to her and her siblings! Some of her siblings left the Rez and never returned. Never wanted to face the pains and abuse they took from the nuns and priests. She has written a rough draft about her time in school but has never published it! I doubt it will be published while she’s still alive! My grandmother is brave! She is strong! She is Lakota Brûlée!

[@ThatLadyDray]

I'm sorry for the evil & horror she had to endure. Have you thought about digital publishing? It's quicker & that way she can know it was published. I think you could still publish it as a hard copy too but as you know that takes longer. May the rest of her days be filled with happiness & peace. 🙏🏾

[@DevaJones03]

That's sick! Catholics should be called out on this... it seems their religion is built on bs

[@4-SeasonNature]

Feel for her. Get it published ASAP to make her day.

[@Cabledeluz1977]

@@DevaJones03 to be fair, not all clerics were abusive. My grandmother spoke of kind priests and nuns who were generous to them as children! Many still speak highly of priests and nuns to this day.

[@DevaJones03]

@@Cabledeluz1977 yea but I've heard way more raping beating helping colonizers turn savages into civilians etc ever heard of the crusades? or catholic schools where corporal punishment was very normal? ? Like catholics are behind so much evil is unreal all over the globe! So yea miss me with all that. In order for them to redeem themselves at this point is for them to never do anything bad for about a thousand years that won't happen because there are still priests molesting boys to this day.

[@mgmassey174]

For my grandparents and ancestors who were forced to assimilate...I'll never forget. Miyutake oyasin Osiyo Wado Rest in peace

[@sami.osoleil3551]

We Ainihkiwa 🙏🏽✊🏽🌹

[@jakespoon5549]

Don't assimilate,live the way your people did 500 yrs ago.

[@mgmassey174]

@@jakespoon5549 what an idiotic thing to say

[@NAVYWhistleblowerAssassin]

Same here. I still have the name of the white people who owned my Native American great grandparents as slaves. My whole family is toxic from the forced assimilation of my grandfather.

[@iwishyouwould6937]

@@NAVYWhistleblowerAssassin Wow something that none you all experienced for yourself and you can change your name legally at anytime has that much effect on you and your families lives? How? Because you let. My sister has a stoma from her Crohn's disease, if you don't know what it is look it up. That's something every day she personally deals with and you would never know she has it because she doesn't use it as a crutch or an excuse for her to slow down. She runs marathons with that thing. Every person you see or meet is dealing with something you know personally nothing about.

[@SandraEKitchen]

I’m so glad that the history of Indigenous people in the US is finally being discussed!! In Canada, these schools have been in the forefront for a few years and discussed more openly than in the US for many years. We are all learning the history of these schools and how we can never allow this to happen ever again.

[@stevenbaker7025]

'Being discussed' hahaha..yeah and where's the decolonization at? That's something white 'muricans will never bring up.

[@edhall3719]

The biggest school massacre in history happened to the native Americans right after they turned their rifles over to the army

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

@@edhall3719 Lesson: never turn your guns over to the government

[@edhall3719]

@@JDoe-gf5oz the battle of Armageddon will happen . God destroys the fascist pigs and their armies . Revelation 16 16 .

[@M0980a]

Where are all the bodies for all those that have "claimed" are buried? Cause many accounts ar2 all coming our as absolute lies for false victims

[@tonyf.3975]

As a White left-handed boy growing up Catholic, and being exposed to their cruel treatment that still affects my daily life 40 years later, I can't begin to fathom the horror these people went through in the name of "progress". To have your culture destroyed intentionally all the while trying to hold onto what little of yourself and your heritage that you can is nothing short of devastating. So much inexcusable loss. Even though exposure such as this will never correct the past, we can only hope it will educate those who remain to insure their future.

[@yvonneplant9434]

The people who think Biden has dementia don't understand that his real problem is a stutter. A stutter that was made fun of in at least one Catholic school he went to.

[@judithsullivan9703]

quoyanna.....thank you

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

Double onto them, thus says The Lord. Can't wait for Revaluation 13.9 amen!

[@MatthewBaran]

@@ephraimrisesagain1592 shut up with fake nonsense. Can't believe in 2022 people still think that book is anything other than fairy tales.

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

@@MatthewBaran but you built everything upon it. Now in 2022 you are being revealed as Thee Wicked and everyone is starting to see you for who you are, it's fairy tales NOW cuz it was never for you 😂

[@analiciapianca841]

Thank you for publishing this. The US government owes so much to indigenous nations.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Exactly

[@lorebay2593]

To your nation yes, and our southern black families too. All this shame needs to be resurrected and dealt with before we will ever be a great nation as it is declared. It just peeves me how people are declared uncivilized and need to be cleaned up and taught their ways.

[@yvonneplant9434]

@@lorebay2593 It's infuriating. These people are the decendants of those who made the journey from Asia across the land bridge, between Asia and N. America, now called Beringia. Or they traveled down the coast of N. America in boats. The land, all of it, belongs to them. And it was taken away. It's hard to for me to forgive white people for doing this.

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

It owes all

[@belladonna5904]

Their were also black protests and segregation in the north too. But they don't talk about that.

[@gilhernandeziii4031]

As a Catholic, I'm ashamed of the Catholic Church...

[@blackcitroenlove]

Not ashamed enough to leave though---by being part of it you still give your support.

[@dawnburke2756]

Catholic Church worst pedophile ring in history -

[@FM-ki4dl]

Leave. I did! I dont give them a penny...

[@priestessmikokikyo77]

I’m Greek Orthodox not catholic! And I can’t believe the level of evil that so called “church” did

[@CoolBreezeAnthony]

I also.

[@Former_Pastor]

The Natives should have been allowed to keep their own religious beliefs

[@mysticpluck8]

Allowed..???? It's not a religion. It's a way of life! It was, and is, their daily life!

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

Oh but not their land? Dummy

[@freethinkinmelanin6795]

Everyone Europeans encountered should've been able to keep their cultures.

[@jamesonp3873]

I grew up in SD and did not know about the boarding schools until I was in my 20's. I attended a local film festival where they screened The Thick Dark Fog. A documentary about Walter Littlemoon's time in the school. The documentary and Q and A afterwards were heartbreaking.

[@AshANDLeeW]

You know what's heartbreaking to me? The first time I heard about this in my 25 years of life was through the Paramount show "1923". I RAN to the internet to start trying to find personal accounts of these VIOLENT and DISGUSTING "school's" and I'm just sick. I am sick that it happened, I am sick that I haven't heard about this until now, that we don't talk about this more in school or life in general. If it makes me feel the way I'm feeling, I can't even fathom what it makes these families feel. What it makes all Native Americans feel. There's no way to make up for it. None.

[@jtempleton1465]

This is vital work to bring this horror to the forefront of America's consciousness. We must address the horrific injustice and crime perpetrated upon our Native American brothers and sisters. Reparations must follow.🙏

[@catwhisperer968]

So moving. Christians could learn so much from the Indian Nations of Americas

[@meahdahlgren6537]

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[@judithsullivan9703]

This is disgraceful. The ongoing oppression that occurs and is left out of this piece. As we try to drive down the understanding of cultures in this country with the denial of it's responsibility in repressing or pressing and breaking Native American's lifestyles cultures traditions and inclusivity in the federal government. As a Native American I have seen all of the villages in Alaska many many many still do not have Plumbing available because it is expensive to drill in permafrost. Every indigenous tribe in Canada has Plumbing on their lands and they are further north than some of the villages in Alaska.They still drill oil most recently they opened the Arctic National Reserve. No one knows about the spills that occur constantly with the alyeska pipeline company already. Big oil has driven us away from our natural resources as we are arrested constantly for, protesting another oil line plotted to go under our water supplies. For the very first time our interior secretary is a Native American Woman. This would not have happened if not for President Biden. You gave us crap land without any ability to develop it in any way as you employee lawyers to continue to take our rights away and put us in jail for protesting oil line under our water supplies wake up America you are not cleansed of your sins.

[@richardclare]

Hello how are you doing today?

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

Duh Thee wicked rule

[@TheLakingc]

I am not native but due to greed, cannot get running water. I was lied to about the place i bought and everyone, even an attorney i tried to get were in with each other on this plan. God knows and justice will come to them someday and to those who refuse to help us even now. I cannot even sell because i won't lie about it. I imagine i am not alone. But God gives us grace to carry on and have good lives if we want to let go of our tragic pasts. God gives us justice in the end. We are better and stronger, but the corrupt have no future. We are the blessed.

[@AKFF320]

What about Hawaiians?

[@jakespoon5549]

Have a nice day.

[@babyblue704]

Black people and Native people UNITE!! They ain't ready for that

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

No thanks.

[@KittKattKlub]

No. Native People only. Other African tribes sold other tribes.

[@azborderlands]

Not when black people want to steal history from the natives.

[@mariareyes9714]

This always hurts. Generational trauma is such a hard thing to live with. What Europe did to the America's is still felt. So many died so many tortured and so many robbed of their identity.

[@richardclare]

Hello how are you doing today?

[@kristinstrickland1038]

You are right, but the people in the Americas were brutally torturing others also. Apart from Christ, man in general is hopelessly wicked - Europeans and Native Americans and everybody else under the sun. And when I say 'apart from Christ,' I mean sincere, transformative heart belief in Christ and true faithfulness to his teachings. I do not mean nominal Christianity that was a cloak for the Catholic priests mentioned in this video!

[@richardclare]

@@kristinstrickland1038 hello 🤗

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

Hmmm wonder who it says that will happen to?

[@stevenbaker7025]

So you grew up on a reservation and respect your ancestors? See indigenous peoples true power comes from their understanding that nature will always have the last 'word'. European descendants forgot their pagan and earlier ancestors also followed this same world view. Unfortunately industrialization and greed have taken away any chance of getting back to respecting anything not controlled by humans.

[@deborahkish5411]

My Grandfather was in a Residential school for approximately 6 yrs. He suffered from the trauma his entire life. Honor and Respect Grandfather.

[@dancinina4592]

Thank you NBC for doing a segment on this

[@coleengoodell7523]

Thank you for sharing this. For many who have not looked at the real history, as horrific as this is, it's just the tip of the iceberg. I found a VHS tape at my local library, a documentary titled "How the West was Lost" and found myself weeping through the entirety of it. It lead me to continue digging deeper into the true horrors of what occurred on this continent to the Native American people. It absolutely was genocide, for land, gold, silver and a truly cruel form of so called Christianity. Treaties and promises were nothing but things to be broken by Europeans/the white man. Those broken promises and more rights are still being broken to this day. How can a people heal when the abuse has not ended?

[@Galimah]

"welcome to the real world, not your paradise"

[@karenterrell8843]

I’m so sorry for what the indigenous people suffered.

[@care4sher188]

This is another story that should be told and not buried. I stand with you as I have the same desire to honor my ancestors through telling the absolute truth about slavery. I knew there was more to the story and I honor you . #Lakota #RedCloud. #WeARETheAmerica ❤❤❤🙌🏽👊🏽🙏🏽

[@gordonbyron5145]

You know what wasnt buried? Native children at these schools. To this day not a single body was found, not even a single human bone.

[@whatshappening3474]

This is not american past its the current America, there are many communities suffering the same fate in the name of democracy

[@linzs5042]

The abuse transcends into the current time through generations that have no idea what love is. Grandparents that were sent to these "schools" are treating their grandchildren like how they were treated.

[@freethinkinmelanin6795]

Same with black people. I just made the connection between the tough love/lack of love and how we were talked to and treated during colonization. English wasn't our first language. Everything we initially learned about the English language was through communication with the same people who thought us to be beneath them.

[@theresalange1903]

I'm a Lakota Grandmother and the 4th generation of boarding school survivors in my family. It is only because of love that I was finally able to break that cycle in my family. My sons have never been threatened by boarding schools. My Takoja (granddaughter) is loved and held sacred. Maybe what you say is true for some people, but healing is still happening around here.... nothing but love.

[@WhirlWindWilder]

I have not seen that in my tribe. Are you native...if not you know not what you speak

[@linzs5042]

@@WhirlWindWilder I was abused by the elders. My daughter was abused by elders. But my grandson will not be because my daughter and I won't let it happen.

[@linzs5042]

@LGwild13 do u need to know tribal enrollment numbers too?

[@luvzfrance24]

Savagery and barbarism? Really? Don't get me started on who is really savage and barbaric! 🤬

[@enzop2835]

The White sons and husbands who went to war and killed other White sons and husbands for the sake of owning people as property?

[@gingerguzman2022]

I stand by my Native American Indians … my heart cries every time I hear what the “White man” did to our sacred land yes our land!

[@Ibuddy66]

What can those of us who want to end the cycle our ancestors began do? I think it's important for us to ask and not just do what we want to do.

[@thisistheway3812]

@@Ibuddy66 yep

[@peachiereader63]

@@Ibuddy66 same question

[@user-sg8kq7ii3y]

@@Ibuddy66 Unless the entire North America is given back to Native American people, then there's absolutely nothing you can do to make things right. You can't take an entire continent away from it's Native people, then ask, "What can we do to end this cycle?" Yet not be willing to give back their land. That's like me stealing your car, then apologizing to you by saying, "Sorry for stealing your car. How can I make it right?" Then you say to me, "You can make it right by returning my car to me." And I tell you, "Sorry, I can't do that. You'll have to think of something else."

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

@@user-sg8kq7ii3y Terrible analogy.

[@TeeAlee143]

My great grandmother was full blooded, these painful agonies need to be told ❤️🙏❤️

[@veronicamamiful]

This definitely needs to be exposed. This is absolutely heartbreaking. Nobody should be treated like that. Live and let Live.

[@hypnotherapycw]

This report is more whitewashing

[@hopenguyen2687]

We need to do more to bring these stories about Native People in USA. We must acknowledge the wrong we did to Native People when we conquer this land.

[@guyburris4315]

Look up Hopis in Alcatraz. The more stories we share with each other the more the world will know.

[@AngelaShawWestoven]

This is a part of CRT that Republicans don't want our children to learn about. I know I was never taught this in school. Thank God for the internet.

[@mcc.o.4835]

This isn't critical race theory. This is America history.

[@AngelaShawWestoven]

@@mcc.o.4835 You would have to know what CRT is. It's debate and discussion about Government sanctioned racist policies. It is a part of history.

[@mcc.o.4835]

@@AngelaShawWestoven CRT is a buzzword thrown around by Conservatives to get children and schools to not learn their history. The systems of power in this country want to keep you ignorant and in the dark because it benefits them.

[@jakespoon5549]

Government sanctioned racist policies like affirmative action.

[@mysticpluck8]

It was a genocide.

[@hyunjoorachelsong9797]

Yes, it was.

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

It is the True holocaust

[@robertmarley8852]

Worse than Hitler 👀

[@angelwolfe6728]

Thank you for covering this! 😢

[@richardclare]

Hello how are you doing today?

[@hubertsumlin9697]

This is a nasty piece of history that needs to be told

[@meahdahlgren6537]

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[@athensmajnoo3661]

Just about evey aspect of American history is nasty.

[@raintartsah3218]

“You have to Forgive, the Unforgivable” …that was deep but very true 🥺 I graduated in 2003 from Riverside Indian Boarding School in Oklahoma

[@maryannemorgan1879]

Forgive the Unforgivable...More easily said than done if you have never directly experienced it or saw it and just stood by and watched. Historical Trauma has made its way into Native DNA and that has been historically and scientifically proven. It sickens me with one thinking that it can be easily swept under a rug and all is forgiven! We need acknowledgement and reconciliation. It is the main cause of the familial breakdown, substance abuse, and loss of identity of the Indian people. Thank you for shedding light on a subject that needs to be told.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

Raintartsah3218 ❤❤❤❤

[@lynnessewimperfect825]

Riveting. We need more stories about the horrors of the boarding schools, about efforts to locate and rebury the lost ones on their own land. Why are you the only network showcasing stories on the Indigenous peoples and the ancient tribes?

[@richardclare]

Hello 🤗 how are you doing today?

[@jamesonp3873]

There's a documentary from about ten years ago called The Thick Dark Fog.

[@gordonbyron5145]

To this day not a single body was found at any of the residential schools. Not even a single human bone. Most of these stories are lies to guilt trudeau into giving them billions and it worked like a charm

[@cunderw12]

“Don’t ever carry hate, or prejudice because it’s poison”. Now this is something I live by. As a Native walk with your head held high. Share your history. Spread awareness on the mistreatment of all Indigenous tribes, and do it with love. ❤️‍🩹🫶🏽

[@rosarioc.debaca1935]

Honor treaties, honor people.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

The USA will never say the word Genocide when it comes to the Indigenous people here not now not ever.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

They've said it several times now.

[@sixtyonenine]

I seen this on TV tonight . We have lots of real work to do as a country if we want to lead the free world as an example of what a country should be

[@sammie7641]

It's too late. The rest of the world knows the truth and will never in any future want to be led by the US. What gives this country the right to lead the rest of the world anyway. Do you think this country is so blessed by the almighty Creator that he- GOD approves of all the evil and immoral actions that have occurred to all brown skin people in this country. Wake up and come out of your ridiculous imagination!

[@richardboswell9306]

America is not the only free country also you do not lead

[@bigsadie]

Thank you so much for covering this

[@colvilletribe2383]

It caused generational trauma still being felt to this day.......

[@cindywitter9741]

This should be taught in every school. My GreatGrandmother was sent to Carlisle in 1884. A white family went there looking for a slave to adopt, they took her, she never saw her family again. People used to be able to go into that school and just take children.

[@B_Bodziak]

Imagine your child being buried in an unmarked grave that requires ground sonar to even find the mass Graves of these children. The US govt have exploited, including torturing, the nation's Natives for 400+ years.

[@KittKattKlub]

😢😢😢😢

[@noelinevillebrun3698]

What happened to all of us in NWT Canada! I am one survivor! ✊🏽🙏🏽🦅

[@liamskopal7516]

That people who are supposed to have devoted their lives to Christ commit such grave atrocities is sickening.

[@therockstar123456]

Why should the people who inflict pain onto others deserve healing. They don’t need any healing. They need to be held accountable and be responsible for the behaviors of their horrible ancestors that caused plus helped this genocide. The only people who need healing are the victims not the perpetrators

[@a.e.rromero5403]

I hear what you are saying but everyone deserves to heal.

[@IiIypads]

my heart aches for my Native ancestors. I wasn't close to my Indigenous family growing up so I wasn't aware that this even happened until the massive burial sites in Canada were all over the news, and now Indigenous children may be forced away from their tribes AGAIN in the present day due to the possible overturning of ICWA. we cannot let the US government continue to erase Native culture.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

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[@YoursTrulyThe1Pony]

I am proud to be born into a unique society of America as part of Native American people. This was sick what the American government once did to my people and our culture.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

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[@elisaorozco9494]

"To forgive the unforgivable"..........wisdom that we must all learn, difficult as it is.............

[@erikk8629]

My cousins we are sorry. We showed up way too late. Ecuador native american reaching out to anyone who needs my help.

[@pensamientosdeuncubanoamer7921]

#TrueAmericans Thank you. You may not consider yourself American, but the legacy that Native Americans have left behind and continue to live out is the foundation set for a renewed vision of our shared humanity and what it means to be American. Only in the recognition and reckoning of our country’s past can we truly be a free people. American is no longer owned by Anglo Saxons. America is owned by us all. Once again, thank you #FirstAmericans

[@keithstrader8248]

These are a great people, I'm so glad there is a remnant of their beliefs survived this attempt at full eradication.

[@caitlinweiss8801]

I hate that this happened and I hate that this is rarely talked about. Thank you for bringing this up, I'd love to see more education content like this.

[@Heraldo_Del_Mar]

I remember watching something like this in the 1997 movie "The Education of Little Tree". This is just another one of the country's dirty little secrets.

[@jaezeejl]

The “Land of the free” but only if you’re like them!! How do you call someone or even a tribe of people uncivilized but yet you snatched and killed and tortured those that never deserved to come across people like them

[@tracybrown6821]

SAD😪! I'm a Canadian Metis, (Indigenous and European) my Ancestors, thankfully, did not allow the government, or Church to take their children. We were robbed of our land by the Government, using Script. Falsifying paperwork. Even with that I consider them luckier than the children taken to Residential schools 🤬🤬. Which went on just short of the new Millennium. Living in North Western Ontario, and basically going on every where, in Canada and the U.S the effects on the Indigenous people, carry on today! Poverty, drug,alcohol, sexual abuse is extensive. So much I believe, from the PAIN, AND HORROR, the prisoners of those schools inflicted on the innocent, sadly carried on through the generations. No amount of money, will change it, other than to provide counseling and a way to break the cycle 💔. Peace and love to all how suffer😥

[@chrysallis2735]

RIP grandpa Jack, brave Ft. Belknap Indian Mission School survivor They will never erase us 🐢🕊⭐️❤️

[@amandapearson554]

My family is also from Fort Belknap

[@kimberlysisk6410]

This breaks my 💔

[@anthonywyatt5133]

This comment section is much better than I thought it would be

[@shimkonise357]

Thank you for talking about America's genocide. I have deep respect for the Indigenous peoples. My bf is Abanaki

[@isaiaspeche9575]

This is how the USA was back then Wow Why did Jesus let this happen to the Native Americans I hope one day the Native Americans can have their lands back

[@annee5582]

I watch half and couldn’t watch it anymore…such atrocities. My heart is in pain hearing these spirits speak for the first time.

[@samanthahicks3333]

I was glad to hear the priest agree with and not deny the need for the truth. That finding the truth and owning it is the first step to moving forward. No matter what that means.

[@GameReality]

People need to write down everything. Everything need to be documented. Save it everywhere on paper and on servers on blockchain. The whole world need to know what happened.

[@AuntJoanieBaloney]

I am so sorry to the Native Americans who were the victims of this and everything done to them in the past. Horrible.

[@ms_cartographer]

The Catholic church should be forced to pay billions in reparations.

[@ginnyluv4601]

I absolutely agree!

[@beataannanowak659]

I was 15 when I came to the United States of America. I did not want to come here. My grandma and grandpa told me to return to my home country. I regret that I did not listen to them. There is that negative energy here - people don't believe in it. I pray to heavens God that genocides will not take place and people will be able to live their own way and pass their traditions from one generation to another.

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

Oh My God It's hard to listen to this, but I'm so glad the truth is coming out. My prayers go out to these innocent Natives. It's history like this that makes white supremacists Americans revolt against Critical Race History of Natives, Blacks and Chinese men in America ‼️

[@tuffyenglish]

It's amazing that they find themselves in this horrific history that America had them to undergo through. It's their land, and not to question, but in reality, America society acts as if not. However, what comes to my mind is that: is America going to forget ever black people history, too?

[@marilynfoster2546]

“I think you just side stepped my question.” ✊🏽

[@hopenguyen2687]

We need to know all the names of people, of the churches, of organizations, of federal govt, who ran these programs. We have to see the wrong to make it right. Who are the leaders from these Catholic Schools.

[@danerd2002]

wow, big love to the indigenous community 🫶🏾

[@toniemcfadden296]

Absolutely horrible!! And to think they are still running these places.. and you can't convince me they have changed for the better!! Horrible

[@SayanHaqueOfficial]

Wow❤❤❤

[@tashenamason]

I'm glad this is coming out... This is not new to us or our relatives, but being heard and seen is. It's way past time for our children to come home 🙏🏽

[@ovallematt]

Thank you so much for bringing awarenss about my people.

[@judd442009]

I love the way that Cynthia McFadden didn't let the Jesuit priest sidestep her question. He tried to pivot, and she wouldn't let him go there. The fact that these native men defended the nation which was stolen from them is remarkable.

[@doctorgoldbud1321]

It is sad what happened to the American Indians, I myself am from Indian descent, I had relatives on the Trail of Tears, our government order go in and build these people new houses, let them live their way of life, if anyone needs reparations it should be the Indian people, in the church that was there should be ashamed of their self.

[@giuseppegeer7552]

I was just thinking that. Why can’t the church just be normal? I personally know chaplains that live in poverty but provide so much. Why can’t the church just be normal like him? It’s disgraceful

[@sadejones6657]

The Indian ple. They are indigenous people. They do not come from India.....

[@jakespoon5549]

One third of the people on the Trail of Tears were black slaves owned by the Cherokee.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

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[@BullShark-i2z]

@@sadejones6657 Human are indigenous to Africa, not North America.

[@nativestacker4185]

Thank you NBC News for doing this story , My mother was a survivor of The Boarding Schools , and some people who I have told can not believe that anything like that ever happened , some are ashamed , and some just don't want to hear about it .

[@dan49781]

Happened in Michigan until the 1980s.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

hot

[@thisistheway3812]

This is very sad, the natives did not deserve that. But there is nothing that us people that believe in common rights can't to anything about the people that made the indigenous people suffered.

[@claradavis5911]

😢 This to shell never be forgotten. However, it seems like Pine Ridge has been through a lot with not just the boarding schools, but with other situations there too. However, may God (the Great spirit) 🙏 always keep them safe and be there Guide. Godbless 😌 ❤

[@dystopianwarlord]

Thank you for covering the truth

[@tomgabriel5150]

This was genocide, despite a California college professor who removed a Native student for saying just this.

[@dawnserrano737]

Shame on all who put this on our people!

[@motherofangels1710]

I'll never forget the day I learned of these atrocities. At a Native friends home helping with their harvest when we broke for lunch. My friends mother helped me make sandwiches then sat by me after they were all handed out. I asked her what it was like when my friend & his brothers were little, while sharing her stories she got into the story of her childhood and the forced separation from her parents and people to be forced into a boarding school run by nuns. She was beaten daily, they were also punished through starvation. Forced to work in fields and constant prayer. Locked in a tiny dark room where you couldn't sit down for 12+ hours. Couldn't speak their language and were always called names & told they were dirty and savages & had to pray to ask forgiveness. I was so horrified at what she was telling me and what she survived, all I could do was cry. It made me sick to my stomach (still does). Even though my ancestors didn't migrate here from Norway & Germany until the 40s & 50s ai still felt a terrible shame. It is infuriating the horrific acts that the American government & religious groups committed & have tried to keep hidden and continue to make excuses for or minimise. I do not understand how anyone can treat another in such deplorable sadistic ways and continue on with life like it's no big deal. Everyone is freaking out about how America is being invaded by illegal immigrants... just imagine if they started killing off your food sources, forcibly took over your home & land, stole your children, forbade your language & beliefs & tradition, denied you fair trial, poisoned your water, purposely infected you with deadly diseases and wiped out half your people. Then pretend none of it happened.

[@b.gcapone6965]

I am cree. My grandparents hated speaking of boarding school rest in peace both of you what the colonizers did to us is unforgiveable we will have our justice.

[@MomonoGaming001]

Amen

[@pensamientosdeuncubanoamer7921]

What’s sad…that sounds like the same experience everyone else that has gone to Catholic schools have had. And this is a spectacular illustration to not rely on government for own individual and collective well being. Thank you to all those who sacrificed unwillingly and unjustly. #Neveragain

[@lorissajuntti9513]

True- but compound that with being stripped of your identity. Your culture. Your language. It’s more than abuse. It’s attempted genocide.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

Striped of one's culture or identity is not genocide unless you are killed off. If you are still here and your culture I'd recorded you will survive.

[@BullShark-i2z]

@@brittanyhayes1043 Hence, the attempted part. It was an ATTEMPTED CULTURAL genocide.

[@ShellDragonfire-lv9ze]

This is a year later but oh wow. Thank you for the post

[@dawnserrano737]

It's just horrible..and why..for what!?

[@loopylynda1974]

Having spent months years ago on the Navajo reservation I am a firm believer we need to bring reparations and stop continuing to take their land still today. Thanksgiving should be renamed Thankstaking and should be entirely transformed to pay homage to the many tribes we stole so much from.

[@johnlaine6259]

Thanks for voting with your heart.we ou

[@yvonneplant9434]

I've been to Carlyle, PA where one of these schools was.

[@richardclare]

Hello how are you doing today?

[@hanialhalaluyahuah222]

Only a fraction but TRUTH none the less... HalALuYaHUaH...more TRUTH there too!!

[@xiao8212]

I’m doing an assignment based on this, and it pains me so deeply to know this isn’t taught in schools. I’ve learned some of the history of these boarding schools and even the history behind Mount Rushmore, but seeing this and finding out the extent of the abuse is so heart breaking to me.

[@sherridontmix620]

Church should be held accountable

[@quitequiet5281]

These things are still happening...

[@Wahcawatoglawin]

I wonder what my life would have been like if I didn't have to survive this generational trauma..🤔..

[@mysticpluck8]

What a horror.

[@ephraimrisesagain1592]

The Real holocaust

[@TastemyAtrocity]

Shamefully, I had no idea these stories were in living memory. I knew about the abuses to natives- systematic displacement, catholic missions where bodies of native children are buried in the walls, etc. I had no idea this lasted into the middle of the century on a federal level. My grandparents were entering the country at this time. How could they not know this was taking place? 😳🤦‍♀️

[@meahdahlgren6537]

❤❤❤❤

[@WhirlWindWilder]

Cause it was hidden...Americas great shame

[@brenthood2337]

Amazing how many Americans want to eliminate this and many other atrocities from our history .

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Americans talk about it all the time. Just because you weren't aware of the situation doesn't mean there's some grand coverup.

[@kimgeorge3636]

I am a survivor.

[@judithsullivan9703]

😉 Quoyanna

[@richardclare]

Hello how are you doing today?

[@thisistheway3812]

Ok. I hope you live the best life you can.