getting an anon and knowing exactly who its from

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“When I was very young, my sisters and I were removed from the reservation where we lived. The reservation was the world, and I didn't think anything else existed. Then one day, strangers showed up, put our stuff into garbage bags, and drove us off. And the more they drove, the more our world disappeared into nothing. They brought us to this horrible place where we were basically tortured for four years.”

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Says Denise Altvater, a Native American who was taken away from her reservation. It all started when White Church Groups relocated Native children and taught them to be ashamed of their culture, in Maine, in the early 1870’s.

In 1958, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Child Welfare League of America began a 10-year “experiment” to place 1,000 Indian children in the foster care of white families. While the federal government initially thought the experiment would be a success, Native Americans have called it cultural genocide.

How can taking children away from their families and teaching them to hate their own culture and deny them the right to practise their own religion be “success”? Like the Native Americans say themselves, it’s nothing more than cultural genocide. (Read the entire article here)

“Of the many and varied lies told by anti-choicers in their quest to separate women from their basic human rights to bodily autonomy, the claim that women need to lose their rights in order to protect Black people is one of the most odious. It is an odious claim in no small part because the mostly white conservatives who pretend to be “concerned” about Black women getting abortions aren’t fooling anyone, since they spend the rest of their time attacking the civil and economic rights of ordinary Americans in ways that disproportionately harm Black people.”

—Amanda Marcotte,  Florida’s Racist Anti-Choice Bill Prompts Walkout By Female Legislators

“More than 100,000 Native children in the US were enrolled in off-reservation boarding schools. Parents who refused to give up their children were imprisoned and their children were forcibly taken away. The first school was founded in 1879 by Richard Pratt, an army officer, who based the system off a school he developed for a prison in Florida. The schools were funded by Congress and run by churches and missionary societies. Pratt mandated that the children be taken far from their homes at an early age and not returned until they were young adults. In the boarding schools boys were taught menial labor and girls housework. They were forced to convert to Christianity, embrace Western culture, and speak only English. Native languages and traditions were prohibited and severely punished. Children were subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by the priests and nuns in charge. Torture was used to punish native language use; children were involuntarily sterilized and died of disease, beating, poisoning, hanging, starvation, strangulation, and medical experimentation. By the 1930s most off-reservation boarding schools were closed, but today boarding schools still exist within reservations.”

—Under America’s Rug, Native American Children Were Targets of Genocide Into the 1930’s

the thing is, people don't lie to their kids about the holocaust of the jewish peoples by the nazis. How is it any harder to explain the holocaust of native people here in america to your kids?

all i’m sayin is, the excuse is up.

tell the real history so we can move forward.

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