Quote from Richard H. Pratt, founder of the first Indian boarding school, Carlisle Indian Industrial School. This digital story is about an Indian Boarding school experience.
Thank you for sharing. I did not know my family, I was adopted out into a white family when I was 3 days old. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother went to boarding schools. They, along with my birth Mother have all passed now, I never got to meet any of them once I finally found them. I pray for your family, and all like us whose family members were taken from their homes, and raised to be "white" not Indian.
Beautiful.....and heart wrenching. Couldn't make it through the entire video without crying. My mother's older siblings all did time in a Residential school in Ontario.....A life-scarring ordeal.
I have heard horrible stories from relatives, and I still wonder why the boarding school still exists when all it stands for to me, is rape, murder and injustice to our native ancestors. I keep praying that they demolish the school and let the community heal.
These are very painful words. I remember hearing my great grandmother telling of having soap put into her mouth from speaking in her native Cheyenne tongue. Creator's Blessings upon you, sister! Nea'ese
I am also a student at Fort Lewis. I have a similar family history connected with the boarding schools. I appreciate your poem and I grieve on a regular basis for the pain it caused them a the wedge it placed between siblings and the generations. I also have a presentation on Boarding School Blues and I have cited this video, Thank you for sharing.
Anna Motoaka Kohls they look and see its different from them anything not like them they consider wrong or bad. many feel that the way they speak, dress, who they praise (religion) is the only way. everyone else is wrong.
The Immense Truth Is Here. Thank You For Awakening The Many 2 This Reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We Are Forever. You Can Take The Native Out Of The Wild But You Cannot Take The Wild Out Of The Native!!!! Much More Power 2U ^^
Dave777 the idea of" moving on" is the worst form of repression! The very attempt to assimilate European values, culture and religion is evil enough! But to attempt to change a people's psychology is no worse than murder!
I really think you should write a book about this. Your poem would be a powerful beginning to telling the story of the wrongs of the indian boarding schools. Here is a super example of a 13 year old girl, Annica Benning, wanted to share her interest in Arizona Native American art and culture with other young people. The governor of Arizona gave every fourth grader in the state her book in 2010. Benning, A. (2009). Arizona: nations and art. U.S.A: Walnut Canyon Press.
@frybreadqueen2008 Could you put your powerful and inspirational words up here, under your video, please? I'd love to share them around the internet..It is so important to tell this story everywhere...
Message to Badwolf73. I am in the same boat as you, My mother was NDN but she was ashamed of it....when I was very young she would speak of good things but as I got older and older...she became less and less NDN until it was all gone. She even bleached her dark brown hair because well, blonds have more fun....I am now doing what I can to discover my Algonquin heritage..but there is little. I am around a few Lakota and a few Wiyot. Those are the ones I am learning from..and all I can find online.
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” -Marx 1848 I would like to believe that more people are learning that history really is written by the ruling class, the conqueror, and the poor and conquered are always enslaved in some way. Slavery = conformity. We are all killers, lovers, or even rulers if the circle requires it and the cycle of nature goes on and on. Marx only said what most of us now know to be the truth.
Long time ago best we forget the genocide best we not go there it only makes the suffering longer and those that languish in it that much harder to overcome it. many cannot learn to love because they are not strong enough many cannot forgive for they are too weak to forgive.They turn to self destruction and that is why this story is best forgotten. For the self destruction of the Native Indians of North America is an epidemic and these stories only serve to destroy more minds.
Translate this completely to all languages of the world so that everyone knows what has happened in the American continents since Christopher. The gun culture and weaponisation of Europe since Nepolean times spread to every part of the world threatening peace on the. When did exact date the natives of United States of America accorded equal citizenship rights, voting rights and protective rights. The natives should have pushed them back to Europe and then the world would have been in peace now.
Continued: Native Americans were treated horribly and their situation was basically hopeless. Any chance of survival would have only been possible by accepting Christianity and offering themselves as basically "peasant laborers". Sounds unfair? Yep, but who in the hell ever told you the world was "fair"? Talk to Africans, Asians and Pacific Islanders and ask them how it went when a superior culture planted the various flags of Europe on THEIR land. Same sad story with only minor variations.
ALL FOR THE HONER & GLORY OF THE MOST HIGH,YHVH! OUR CREATOR, REMINDS US TO FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES,QUIT PACKING THIS UNESSACERY WEIGHT.LEAVE YOUR BURDEN WITH HIM.
@ImoJam I visited your channel. You have recently commented on the Dine prayer of several others. I find it curious that you can seem to appreciate the Dine prayer, yet insult me without an explanation. Perhaps you are White and found offence in my words & questions. Perhaps you missunderstood. Perhaps you must reflect. Stop the hate :{ jmg
The government could stop it but can't because Jesus is in my soul so they use COVID as response and for an excuse on how to leave the Lord Jesus a homeless man
@selenadelos - You seem so filled with hate that it's a wonder you can function. I am NOT a hater, but I am a studier of history. Why you would hate ME personnaly baffles me. You need help man! If you are a believer you should pray. I mean it; no one should be so hateful, it's not healthy. Good luck...
The American Natives got screwed really bad. However, you can NOT put 20th century standards on the expanding Empires of the 15th century. When the Europeans "discovered" the Americas they found people that were extremely primitive. Few, if any used any type of written language or for that matter even used the wheel! Basically stone age man faced a culture that had already entered well beyond the iron age. Native Americans were treated more like raccoons or other "less than human" species.
randy95023 ALL FOR THE GLORY & HONER OF THE MOST HIGH,YHVH! NEVER JUDGE, UNTIL YOU HAVE THE FACTS.NEW EXCAVATIONS ARE PROVING THAT VAST CIVILIZATIONS ARE BEING UNEARTHED,WITH A WRITING SYSTEM OF PICTOGLYPS,MEGA-COSMOPOLITAINS ALL DONE WITHOUT THE WHEEL.
Some people will say, "forget the past and iive in the present" But if we forget the past, we forget who we are.
Not only will you forget who you are or where you came from, but forgetting the past makes us repeat it.
Thank you for sharing. I did not know my family, I was adopted out into a white family when I was 3 days old. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother went to boarding schools. They, along with my birth Mother have all passed now, I never got to meet any of them once I finally found them. I pray for your family, and all like us whose family members were taken from their homes, and raised to be "white" not Indian.
No words come to me now, just great sadness
I teared up. There is so much hurt in the past that people (on both sides) try to just look over.
Over 10,000 views. Thank you for spreading the word and learning a small piece of unspoken history.
Kahts "Thanks" :)
Beautiful.....and heart wrenching. Couldn't make it through the entire video without crying. My mother's older siblings all did time in a Residential school in Ontario.....A life-scarring ordeal.
Stay strong beautiful one and never forget!
Excellent poem and insightful visuals. Very effective and educational. Thank you.
I have heard horrible stories from relatives, and I still wonder why the boarding school still exists when all it stands for to me, is rape, murder and injustice to our native ancestors. I keep praying that they demolish the school and let the community heal.
Keep educating those who do not know about this. Make restitution.
These are very painful words. I remember hearing my great grandmother telling of having soap put into her mouth from speaking in her native Cheyenne tongue. Creator's Blessings upon you, sister!
Nea'ese
Hey! This is from our Instructor's home! Thank you for making this. Your poem is incredible!
I am also a student at Fort Lewis. I have a similar family history connected with the boarding schools. I appreciate your poem and I grieve on a regular basis for the pain it caused them a the wedge it placed between siblings and the generations. I also have a presentation on Boarding School Blues and I have cited this video, Thank you for sharing.
The real enemy is not people but the cunning spirits that pull our strings.
We are not string puppets you moron!
If it walks like a devil, acts like a devil, talks like a devil what else should it be called?
Lady T White people have done more damage to the most amount of people than any other race in the history of our human species.
The European wht man! Are you new?
A racist.
goose bumps. very amazing
Yakoke, Anukfohka: Pim anumpa yvt bilia micha biliashke. Thank you. Remember, our language is forever and stands forever and ever.
I wonder how the white man can look at us in our blanket clothing and beads and see our braids and want to change that...
Anna Motoaka Kohls they look and see its different from them anything not like them they consider wrong or bad. many feel that the way they speak, dress, who they praise (religion) is the only way. everyone else is wrong.
Your Story lives on...
NOT just your children, Annie Smith, Frybread Queen. ALL children, all adults, all Americans. We all need to your poem.
This never should have happened. Live and Let Live.
They knew it was wrong but yet they still did it to satisfy ther own greed!
@@Fyyt I don't think they thought it was wrong.
no words can express what I feel roght now.....
Thankyou for sharing! .. Truth hurts those who are in denial?
The Immense Truth Is Here. Thank You For Awakening The Many 2 This Reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We Are Forever. You Can Take The Native Out Of The Wild But You Cannot Take The Wild Out Of The Native!!!! Much More Power 2U ^^
This is such a nightmare. I pray all the time for people might open their hearts. I hope they will...
Thank you Annie Smith.
dam, things need to be told like that
Dave777 the idea of" moving on" is the worst form of repression! The very attempt to assimilate European values, culture and religion is evil enough! But to attempt to change a people's psychology is no worse than murder!
I agree. Henry Pratt was evil. They need to take down his statue.
I would like to know more about this times
I really think you should write a book about this. Your poem would be a powerful beginning to telling the story of the wrongs of the indian boarding schools. Here is a super example of a 13 year old girl, Annica Benning, wanted to share her interest in Arizona Native American art and culture with other young people. The governor of Arizona gave every fourth grader in the state her book in 2010.
Benning, A. (2009). Arizona: nations and art. U.S.A: Walnut Canyon Press.
@frybreadqueen2008 Very, very moving. Thank you for sharing.
thank you for sharing,
Generations of these descendants, like the descendants of slaves suffer Post tramatic stress because of these attrocities. How sad.
Where can I find the transcription of this sad story?
That's a nice poem
Hey! Can I Include your work in a Film I'm working on?
What is the name of the documentary that lead to you to write your poem?
no captioned? can you pls add captioned or transcript for Deaf and hard of hearing people? Thanks
@doughboi505 would like to hear the poem if finished! Thanks, Natasha
Thanks..
@AlohaSiempre Your words are true and let us hope that the hearts of the oppressors feel the pain that we feel in our hearts.
:{ jmg
@doughboi505 so did you ever finish the poem??
@frybreadqueen2008 Could you put your powerful and inspirational words up here, under your video, please? I'd love to share them around the internet..It is so important to tell this story everywhere...
@jasmoonbutterfly it still happens because that is what they teach their kids first
Message to Badwolf73. I am in the same boat as you, My mother was NDN but she was ashamed of it....when I was very young she would speak of good things but as I got older and older...she became less and less NDN until it was all gone. She even bleached her dark brown hair because well, blonds have more fun....I am now doing what I can to discover my Algonquin heritage..but there is little. I am around a few Lakota and a few Wiyot. Those are the ones I am learning from..and all I can find online.
@Sirhansome hopefully with all the wisdom of their ancestors they'll will set examples for a better world. Stop the hate. Well done frybreadqueen!
Thanks for your story
Read the book on Indian bording Schools in high school cried for days sad
@hatebeinghopeless I wrote this poem.
This is what happens when religion gets put into our society
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” -Marx 1848
I would like to believe that more people are learning that history really is written by the ruling class, the conqueror, and the poor and conquered are always enslaved in some way. Slavery = conformity. We are all killers, lovers, or even rulers if the circle requires it and the cycle of nature goes on and on. Marx only said what most of us now know to be the truth.
Long time ago
best we forget the genocide
best we not go there
it only makes the suffering longer and those that languish in it that much harder to overcome it.
many cannot learn to love because they are not strong enough many cannot forgive for they are too weak to forgive.They turn to self destruction and that is why this story is best forgotten. For the self destruction of the Native Indians of North America is an epidemic and
these stories only serve to destroy more minds.
@payuck23 thanks lil Neph :)
@Sirhansome look up historical trauma.
I don't remember, it's been bugging me too, sorry. :(
American Experience: In the White Man's Image
Its a crime ....its outragerous ...
Yeah a European wht man crime, nobody cares about wht ppl crimes. Look at Jeffrey Epstein case!
OKANAGAN PRIDE!
So hideous. The ridiculous ignorant cruelty. I am still hurt at age 70+. However I will not break.
Stay strong my friend!
Translate this completely to all languages of the world so that everyone knows what has happened in the American continents since Christopher. The gun culture and weaponisation of Europe since Nepolean times spread to every part of the world threatening peace on the. When did exact date the natives of United States of America accorded equal citizenship rights, voting rights and protective rights. The natives should have pushed them back to Europe and then the world would have been in peace now.
Continued: Native Americans were treated horribly and their situation was basically hopeless. Any chance of survival would have only been possible by accepting Christianity and offering themselves as basically "peasant laborers". Sounds unfair? Yep, but who in the hell ever told you the world was "fair"? Talk to Africans, Asians and Pacific Islanders and ask them how it went when a superior culture planted the various flags of Europe on THEIR land. Same sad story with only minor variations.
Dont forget the jews, but their abuse was for only 5 yrs. The natives, 500yrs. The blacks idk, all by the hands of European wht ppl!
ALL FOR THE HONER & GLORY OF THE MOST HIGH,YHVH! OUR
CREATOR, REMINDS US TO FORGIVE YOUR ENEMIES,QUIT PACKING
THIS UNESSACERY WEIGHT.LEAVE YOUR BURDEN WITH HIM.
oh man it mad me cry. Whites not are murdours
@ImoJam I visited your channel.
You have recently commented on the Dine prayer of several others.
I find it curious that you can seem to appreciate the Dine prayer, yet insult me without an explanation.
Perhaps you are White and found offence in my words & questions.
Perhaps you missunderstood.
Perhaps you must reflect.
Stop the hate
:{ jmg
The government could stop it but can't because Jesus is in my soul so they use COVID as response and for an excuse on how to leave the Lord Jesus a homeless man
@selenadelos - You seem so filled with hate that it's a wonder you can function. I am NOT a hater, but I am a studier of history. Why you would hate ME personnaly baffles me. You need help man! If you are a believer you should pray. I mean it; no one should be so hateful, it's not healthy. Good luck...
The American Natives got screwed really bad. However, you can NOT put 20th century standards on the expanding Empires of the 15th century. When the Europeans "discovered" the Americas they found people that were extremely primitive. Few, if any used any type of written language or for that matter even used the wheel! Basically stone age man faced a culture that had already entered well beyond the iron age. Native Americans were treated more like raccoons or other "less than human" species.
randy95023 mixton war
randy95023 ALL FOR THE GLORY & HONER OF THE MOST HIGH,YHVH!
NEVER JUDGE, UNTIL YOU HAVE THE FACTS.NEW EXCAVATIONS ARE
PROVING THAT VAST CIVILIZATIONS ARE BEING UNEARTHED,WITH A
WRITING SYSTEM OF PICTOGLYPS,MEGA-COSMOPOLITAINS ALL DONE
WITHOUT THE WHEEL.