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Boarding Schools
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And then suddenly a bus or car arrives, full of strangers, usually white strangers, who yank the child out of the arms of those who love it, taking it screaming to the boarding school. The only word I can think of for what is done to these children is kidnapping.
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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
Welcome to Ms. Strict's boarding school! Covers grades 6-12. Take your children to this boarding…more
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