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This is probably one of the most depressingly heart-wrenching photos I’ve ever seen. Native American children taken from their families and put into school to assimilate them into white society. the slogan for this governmental campaign ’“kill the Indian to save the man”. no official apology has ever been issued. never forgotten.

This is why we keep talking. Every child in this photo deserves to be talked about. The children grew up to be adults… adults who suffer from mental illnesses and a lack of connection to a culture/people that never wanted them to leave. These scars are passed down from generation to generation… and in reality the above picture is closer to present times than many would like to admit.

The amount of inter generational trauma from these schools ALONE has caused so much fuckery amongst native peoples.

And barely anybody understands it’s impact because the school systems don’t teach you this forced assimilation.

(sorry to tack on to this) – googling “kill the Indian to save the man” brought me to Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which i had been taught, but also this on the Richard Henry Pratt page:

He is associated with the first recorded use of the word “racism”, which he used in 1902 to criticize against racial segregation, as well as the phrase “kill the Indian… and save the man” in reference to the efforts to educate Native Americans.

hell is empty and all the devils are settlers

Where the segregation he was objecting to was a barrier to forced assimilation, of course. In appropriate “Friends of the Indian” style.

Also, interesting how that page is still going on about kidnapping, horrendous child abuse, and cultural genocide in one breath–and “his campaign for fair and humane treatment of the Native American” in pretty much the next. All I can say about that at the moment.