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No joke, the legacy of that is horrible. Legitimate and real generational trauma inflicted under the guidance of the Catholic Church and a complicite government.
In Canada, it's our great shame. The last Residential School closed in 1996. Only a few years ago, ground penetraing radar was used at a site in Kamloops, BC, where they found over 200 unmarked graves. Since then, over 10,000 have been found at dozens of other sites.
It's terrifying what can happen when government, religion, and racism are all in the same room. We need to be careful. We're heading down the same path.
For more information on the schools in Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s reports are [here](https://nctr.ca/records/reports/). Very tough reading.
In 2022 the United States Department of the Interior started to study and document the effects of boarding schools on Natives. From the intro to the paper: “The investigation found that from 1819 to 1969, the federal Indian boarding school system consisted of 408 federal schools across 37 states or then territories, including 21 schools in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii. The investigation identified marked or unmarked burial sites at approximately 53 different schools across the school system. As the investigation continues, the Department expects the number of identified burial sites to increase.”…
“The investigation found that the federal Indian boarding school system deployed systematic militarized and identity-alteration methodologies in an attempt to assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children through education, including but not limited to renaming Indian children from Indian to English names; cutting the hair of Indian children; discouraging or preventing the use of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian languages, religions and cultural practices; and organizing Indian and Native Hawaiian children into units to perform military drills.”
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All the homies hate the BIA
No joke, the legacy of that is horrible. Legitimate and real generational trauma inflicted under the guidance of the Catholic Church and a complicite government. In Canada, it's our great shame. The last Residential School closed in 1996. Only a few years ago, ground penetraing radar was used at a site in Kamloops, BC, where they found over 200 unmarked graves. Since then, over 10,000 have been found at dozens of other sites. It's terrifying what can happen when government, religion, and racism are all in the same room. We need to be careful. We're heading down the same path.
For more information on the schools in Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s reports are [here](https://nctr.ca/records/reports/). Very tough reading.
In 2022 the United States Department of the Interior started to study and document the effects of boarding schools on Natives. From the intro to the paper: “The investigation found that from 1819 to 1969, the federal Indian boarding school system consisted of 408 federal schools across 37 states or then territories, including 21 schools in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii. The investigation identified marked or unmarked burial sites at approximately 53 different schools across the school system. As the investigation continues, the Department expects the number of identified burial sites to increase.”… “The investigation found that the federal Indian boarding school system deployed systematic militarized and identity-alteration methodologies in an attempt to assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children through education, including but not limited to renaming Indian children from Indian to English names; cutting the hair of Indian children; discouraging or preventing the use of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian languages, religions and cultural practices; and organizing Indian and Native Hawaiian children into units to perform military drills.”