Words are too weak to describe this level of depravity
The US is now Investigating its Deadly Indian Boarding School System, & the Indigenous are in Need of Mental Health Support from Black Lives & Allies
“People are getting retriggered with each new calamity in a way that’s paralyzing. The level of grieving is almost electric.”
The US had a far more extensive boarding school system than Canada, which has acknowledged the family separations, abuse, and killings as cultural genocide in a report by its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Meanwhile, in the US, the history of stolen children has been hidden, and a government investigation into the unknown number of deaths was only recently announced. From the 1800s to the 1970s, the US forced tens of thousands of children into hundreds of government-sponsored schools, many of whom never came home, their families never being told what had happened.
Nearly every Native American has a parent, grandparent, or other relative who survived the abusive system, and the recent headlines have triggered horrific memories and resurfaced traumatic family histories.
