This week we finished up watching the video over the boarding schools, it made me sick to my stomach to hear that there was cases that infants were dying inside the young girls that got pregnant by their instructors. I hate to hear that we put them through everything that we did, the boarding schools were supposed to help the Indians children but I feel as if it had more bad then good. For example, the treatment that they were put through as young children by grown adults. The children were forced to basically forget there past life if they wanted any kind of hope of surviving, the children were forced to speak and act as if they were white men and women. Christianity was forced upon them not by acceptance as it should be but forced and some of the Indigenous were so bought into that when they went home they started trying to preach it amongst their own. The children were forced to cut their hair if they had it long or if they had it done in braids, they were sexually abused by their instructors or just assaulted in general for their behavior or actions. In one case a young girl was called up to the instructors desk to read and was being fondled as she was trying to read. That just puts me to shame that first of all anyone would do that against someones will, but especially to someone as young as the girl probably was.
July 3, 2018