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Boarding Schools
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Beating was the common punishment for not doing one's homework, or for being late to school. It had such a bad effect upon me that I hated and mistrusted every white person on sight, because I met only one kind. It was not until much later that I met sincere white people I could relate to and be friends with. Racism breeds racism in reverse.
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― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
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The kids were taken away from their villages and pueblos, in their blankets and moccasins, kept completely isolated from their families -sometimes for as long as ten years- suddenly coming back, their short hair slick with pomade, their necks raw from stiff, high collars, their thick jackets always short in the sleeves and pinching under the arms, their tight patent leather shoes giving them corns, the girls in starched white blouses and clumsy, highbuttoned boots-caricatures of white people. Wh
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― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
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Welcome to Ms. Strict's boarding school! Covers grades 6-12. Take your children to this boarding…more
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