#1431 Stealing Native Children and Their Future (Residential Schools)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 7/28/2021
Today we take a look at the legacy of residential schools for native children in the US and Canada. We hear some of the voices of victims, from those looking to establish truth and reconciliation and some thoughts on what it would really take to get a full accounting of this genocide and its impact through generations.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Boarding School Healing - Native American Rights Fund - Air Date 1-25-17
The Native American Rights Fund is pursuing strategies to support the healing of boarding school survivors; Native American children, families, and communities; and tribal nations.
Ch. 2: Stealing Children to Steal the Land - Intercepted - Air Date 6-16-21
The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation uncovered a mass grave of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada. Naomi Klein discusses the relationship between stolen children and stolen land.
Ch. 3: How the US stole thousands of Native American children - Vox - Air Date 10-14-19
The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”.
Ch. 4: What We Inherit - Code Switch - Air Date 6-5-18
On this episode, the story of one family's struggle to end a toxic cycle of inter-generational trauma from forced assimilation. Getting back to their Native Alaskan cultural traditions is key.
Like Canada, America has a painful history of creating boarding schools to assimilate Native American children, leading to trauma, abuse and death. For more than 150 years Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced into boarding schools
Ch. 6: No Apologies, Land Back - The Red Nation Podcast - Air Date 7-5-21
Red Power Hour is back! The Red Nation podcast host Nick Estes (@nickwestes) joins RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie to discuss justice for boarding and residential schools.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
The recent discovery of 215 bodies at the Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia, Canada surprised everyone except Native people. For several decades survivors of these genocidal institutions have told stories of the abuse, neglect and violence
Ch. 8: Unapologetically Indigenous w/ Sarah Pierce and Amy Sazue - Future Hindsight - Air Date 2-25-21
Championing Indigenous students to be successful in school systems starts with school curriculums – telling the accurate history of the United States – and leadership that represents the Indigenous Americans they serve.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and patriotism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the legacy of residential schools for Native children in the U.S. and Canada. |
| 0:13.3 | We hear from some of the voices of the victims, from those establishing Truth and Reconciliation |
| 0:18.6 | commissions, or something similar, and some thoughts on what it would really take to |
| 0:22.9 | get a full account of this genocide and its impact through generations. |
| 0:27.2 | The slips today are from the Native American Rights Fund, Intercepted, Vox, Code Switch, |
| 0:33.3 | the PBS NewsHour, the Red Nation Podcast, Let's Talk Native, and Future Hindsight. |
| 0:39.3 | The boarding school policy was far reaching and devastating as any, maybe more than any, |
| 0:55.6 | has of the complete and utter destruction of the culture. |
| 1:00.6 | It couldn't stop it from happening. |
| 1:13.5 | So they would take them from further away and make it harder for them children to leave |
| 1:17.8 | and go home. |
| 1:19.8 | It was my first haircut. |
| 1:23.1 | I cried when I saw my hair on the floor. |
| 1:30.1 | Tears still well up in my eyes when I remember the way it laid on the floor. |
| 1:42.2 | Without my Navajo language, I was broken and unable to celebrate my heritage to express |
| 1:52.1 | myself, taking my identity from me made me very powerless. |
| 2:02.0 | I managed to learn how to stuff all the loneliness that came because I was good enough to |
| 2:25.8 | talk to my mother or my father and we were not comforted by the boarding school, matrions, |
| 2:35.0 | artichers, the pain and the loneliness and the anger will always be with me. |
| 2:52.1 | We are dealing with the erasure of our people. |
| 3:02.5 | This government has been working on destroying tribal societies and institutions for 500 years. |
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