Fort Lewis College reckons with its dark past
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
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The clock tower standing at the center of the Fort Lewis College campus is also at the center of a very painful history.
As the name suggests, Fort Lewis was a military post in the late 19th century. But then the army base transitioned into an Indian Boarding School that operated for nearly two decades, from 1891 to 1910. It was an institution designed to forcefully erase the culture of Native American children.
Many of the boarding school students were kidnapped from their homes and families. They were beaten for speaking their own Native languages or for practicing any of their cultural and spiritual rituals. Fort Lewis College President Tom Stritikus has described it as “cultural genocide.”
“My biological parents and aunts and uncles attended these boarding schools,” said LeManuel Bitsóí, the Associate Vice President for Diversity Affairs at Fort Lewis College. Bitsóí is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. “So when they spoke in Navajo, they were punished or they were beaten. And when I ask my mother questions about her experience she doesn’t elaborate too much.”
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Heartbreaking. I’m glad they are finding redemption for their lost loved ones.
One must never forget the past due to the possibility of repeating it
Amazing and 100 years late, Water is Life
The Trail of Tears broke off into 100s of tributaries, each one represented by a face.
The smileless faces tell the stories when we look and imagine and question. Perhaps leaving a panel, filling the surrounding walls with chalkboards to give students, their families and others a chance to express their thoughts about the history and legacy left. The waters from the Creator would wash away those expressions, symbols of cleansing and healing. The world needs more compassion and empathy. I offer mine as you proceed with blazing a trail of acknowledgement and remembrance.
Should be the trail of shame.
When we attempt to make people like US, when we force OUR way on others, when WE
decide how others must live, when we decide OUR way, is the only way, when WE decide
what your religion should be........even with, the past "mistakes" we the US still today
try to do, the same, to OTHERS, why???
It helps to bring some healing to many by recognizing the atrocities that many endured and died from.
Let’s just forget about it because Republicans, right?
Why do they all wear glasses? Where did these glasses come from? Keep complaining...
Forced assimilation and intentional cultural destruction was and is utterly evil done by ignorant people (usually in the name of faith). Never mind glasses…
Why are some folks fearful of recognizing past atrocities done in the name of white America?
Keep on being fearful...