Boarding Schools from Hell: Indian Residential Schools in America

Unf*cking The Republic

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Imagine for a moment a breaking news story that more than 500 bodies of white children were found buried in unmarked graves at some of the most prestigious boarding schools in New England…That we discovered a federal plot to steal children, place them in forced labor camps within these schools and lie about their whereabouts when they died. And that the practice was in existence as recently as the 1960s. It would be fucking chaos. And rightly so. This exact scenario unfolded last week with the release of a Department of Interior report about the history of so-called “Indian Residential Schools” in the United States. No outcry. No outrage. No breaking news alerts. Just another day in the United States of Hypocrisy.

Resources

Lakota Times: Civilization Act

United States Department of the Interior: Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report

Indian Country Today: Report on federal Indian boarding schools due April 1

Congress.gov: H.R.5444 - Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act

Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition: Resolutions and Petitions

Resistbot: Yes on H.R.5444 & S.2907

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0:00.0	Topical cream, a pod listener's dream, unfucking the news and current events, topical cream.
0:13.8	Yeah, you know what I mean.
0:16.5	A quarter of an hour gets you our two cents topical cream.
0:23.6	I am here because my ancestors persevered.
0:35.6	I stand on the shoulders of my grandmother and my mother.
0:40.6	And the work we will do with the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
0:44.0	will have a transformational impact on the generations who follow.
0:52.7	In 1886, U.S. Indian agent Fletcher Coward described the difficulty in forcibly removing Apache
1:00.4	children from their parents in an effort to send them to federal boarding schools.
1:05.3	Quote, when called upon for children, the chiefs, almost without exception, declared there were none suitable for schools
1:12.7	in their camps. Everything in the way of persuasion and argument having failed, it became necessary
1:18.4	to visit the camps unexpectedly with the detachment of Indian police and seize such children
1:25.1	as were proper and take them away to school, willing or unwilling.
1:30.3	Some hurried their children off to the mountains or hid them away in a camp,
1:34.6	and the Indian police had to chase and capture them like so many wild rabbits."
1:40.7	End quote.
1:42.0	Like so many wild rabbits.
1:45.2	This excerpt is from the recently released report from the Department of the Interior
1:48.9	under Secretary Deb Holland.
1:51.2	The report is part of a coordinated effort to raise awareness of the Indian residential school
1:55.5	system that was in place in the United States from 1819 to 1969. That's 150 years. We've been in the United States from 1819 to 1969.
2:01.9	That's 150 years.
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