The Reckoning: Native American Boarding Schools’ Painful History Unearthed

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  • NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden reports on the dark history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S. An effort is ongoing to use ground-penetrating radar to look for the unmarked graves of children who may be buried at Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota.
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  • @mgmassey174
    @mgmassey174 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    For my grandparents and ancestors who were forced to assimilate...I'll never forget.
    Miyutake oyasin
    Osiyo
    Wado
    Rest in peace

    • @sami.osoleil3551
      @sami.osoleil3551 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We Ainihkiwa 🙏🏽✊🏽🌹

    • @jakespoon5549
      @jakespoon5549 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Don't assimilate,live the way your people did 500 yrs ago.

    • @mgmassey174
      @mgmassey174 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jakespoon5549 what an idiotic thing to say

    • @WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK
      @WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here. I still have the name of the white people who owned my Native American great grandparents as slaves. My whole family is toxic from the forced assimilation of my grandfather.

    • @iwishyouwould6937
      @iwishyouwould6937 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK Wow something that none you all experienced for yourself and you can change your name legally at anytime has that much effect on you and your families lives? How? Because you let. My sister has a stoma from her Crohn's disease, if you don't know what it is look it up. That's something every day she personally deals with and you would never know she has it because she doesn't use it as a crutch or an excuse for her to slow down. She runs marathons with that thing.
      Every person you see or meet is dealing with something you know personally nothing about.

  • @SandraEKitchen
    @SandraEKitchen ปีที่แล้ว +130

    I’m so glad that the history of Indigenous people in the US is finally being discussed!! In Canada, these schools have been in the forefront for a few years and discussed more openly than in the US for many years. We are all learning the history of these schools and how we can never allow this to happen ever again.

    • @stevenbaker7025
      @stevenbaker7025 ปีที่แล้ว

      'Being discussed' hahaha..yeah and where's the decolonization at? That's something white 'muricans will never bring up.

    • @edhall3719
      @edhall3719 ปีที่แล้ว

      The biggest school massacre in history happened to the native Americans right after they turned their rifles over to the army

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@edhall3719 Lesson: never turn your guns over to the government

    • @edhall3719
      @edhall3719 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JDoe-gf5oz the battle of Armageddon will happen . God destroys the fascist pigs and their armies . Revelation 16 16 .

    • @M0980a
      @M0980a ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Where are all the bodies for all those that have "claimed" are buried? Cause many accounts ar2 all coming our as absolute lies for false victims

  • @tonyf.3975
    @tonyf.3975 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    As a White left-handed boy growing up Catholic, and being exposed to their cruel treatment that still affects my daily life 40 years later, I can't begin to fathom the horror these people went through in the name of "progress". To have your culture destroyed intentionally all the while trying to hold onto what little of yourself and your heritage that you can is nothing short of devastating. So much inexcusable loss. Even though exposure such as this will never correct the past, we can only hope it will educate those who remain to insure their future.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 ปีที่แล้ว

      The people who think Biden has dementia don't understand that his real problem is a stutter. A stutter that was made fun of in at least one Catholic school he went to.

    • @judithsullivan9703
      @judithsullivan9703 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      quoyanna.....thank you

    • @ephraimrisesagain1592
      @ephraimrisesagain1592 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Double onto them, thus says The Lord. Can't wait for Revaluation 13.9 amen!

    • @MatthewBaran
      @MatthewBaran ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ephraimrisesagain1592 shut up with fake nonsense. Can't believe in 2022 people still think that book is anything other than fairy tales.

    • @ephraimrisesagain1592
      @ephraimrisesagain1592 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MatthewBaran but you built everything upon it. Now in 2022 you are being revealed as Thee Wicked and everyone is starting to see you for who you are, it's fairy tales NOW cuz it was never for you 😂

  • @Cabledeluz1977
    @Cabledeluz1977 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    My grandmother will be 93 in a month. All my life she talked about the boarding schools, the nuns, the priests and how horrific the whole experience was to her and her siblings! Some of her siblings left the Rez and never returned. Never wanted to face the pains and abuse they took from the nuns and priests. She has written a rough draft about her time in school but has never published it! I doubt it will be published while she’s still alive! My grandmother is brave! She is strong! She is Lakota Brûlée!

    • @ThatLadyDray
      @ThatLadyDray ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I'm sorry for the evil & horror she had to endure. Have you thought about digital publishing? It's quicker & that way she can know it was published. I think you could still publish it as a hard copy too but as you know that takes longer. May the rest of her days be filled with happiness & peace. 🙏🏾

    • @DevaJones03
      @DevaJones03 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's sick! Catholics should be called out on this... it seems their religion is built on bs

    • @4-SeasonNature
      @4-SeasonNature ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Feel for her. Get it published ASAP to make her day.

    • @Cabledeluz1977
      @Cabledeluz1977 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@DevaJones03 to be fair, not all clerics were abusive. My grandmother spoke of kind priests and nuns who were generous to them as children! Many still speak highly of priests and nuns to this day.

    • @DevaJones03
      @DevaJones03 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Cabledeluz1977 yea but I've heard way more raping beating helping colonizers turn savages into civilians etc ever heard of the crusades? or catholic schools where corporal punishment was very normal? ? Like catholics are behind so much evil is unreal all over the globe! So yea miss me with all that. In order for them to redeem themselves at this point is for them to never do anything bad for about a thousand years that won't happen because there are still priests molesting boys to this day.

  • @Former_Pastor
    @Former_Pastor ปีที่แล้ว +43

    The Natives should have been allowed to keep their own religious beliefs

    • @mysticpluck8
      @mysticpluck8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Allowed..???? It's not a religion. It's a way of life! It was, and is, their daily life!

    • @ephraimrisesagain1592
      @ephraimrisesagain1592 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh but not their land? Dummy

    • @freethinkinmelanin6795
      @freethinkinmelanin6795 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Everyone Europeans encountered should've been able to keep their cultures.

  • @gilhernandeziii4031
    @gilhernandeziii4031 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    As a Catholic, I'm ashamed of the Catholic Church...

    • @blackcitroenlove
      @blackcitroenlove ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Not ashamed enough to leave though---by being part of it you still give your support.

    • @dawnburke2756
      @dawnburke2756 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Catholic Church worst pedophile ring in history -

    • @FM-ki4dl
      @FM-ki4dl ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Leave. I did! I dont give them a penny...

    • @priestessmikokikyo77
      @priestessmikokikyo77 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’m Greek Orthodox not catholic! And I can’t believe the level of evil that so called “church” did

    • @CoolBreezeAnthony
      @CoolBreezeAnthony หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also.

  • @jamesonp3873
    @jamesonp3873 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    I grew up in SD and did not know about the boarding schools until I was in my 20's. I attended a local film festival where they screened The Thick Dark Fog. A documentary about Walter Littlemoon's time in the school. The documentary and Q and A afterwards were heartbreaking.

  • @analiciapianca841
    @analiciapianca841 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Thank you for publishing this. The US government owes so much to indigenous nations.

    • @SUGAR_XYLER
      @SUGAR_XYLER ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly

    • @lorebay2593
      @lorebay2593 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      To your nation yes, and our southern black families too. All this shame needs to be resurrected and dealt with before we will ever be a great nation as it is declared. It just peeves me how people are declared uncivilized and need to be cleaned up and taught their ways.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lorebay2593 It's infuriating. These people are the decendants of those who made the journey from Asia across the land bridge, between Asia and N. America, now called Beringia. Or they traveled down the coast of N. America in boats. The land, all of it, belongs to them. And it was taken away. It's hard to for me to forgive white people for doing this.

    • @ephraimrisesagain1592
      @ephraimrisesagain1592 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It owes all

    • @belladonna5904
      @belladonna5904 ปีที่แล้ว

      Their were also black protests and segregation in the north too. But they don't talk about that.

  • @babyblue704
    @babyblue704 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Black people and Native people UNITE!! They ain't ready for that

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No thanks.

    • @KittKattKlub
      @KittKattKlub ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No. Native People only. Other African tribes sold other tribes.

    • @azborderlands
      @azborderlands 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not when black people want to steal history from the natives.

  • @mariareyes9714
    @mariareyes9714 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    This always hurts. Generational trauma is such a hard thing to live with. What Europe did to the America's is still felt. So many died so many tortured and so many robbed of their identity.

    • @richardclare
      @richardclare ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello how are you doing today?

    • @kristinstrickland1038
      @kristinstrickland1038 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You are right, but the people in the Americas were brutally torturing others also. Apart from Christ, man in general is hopelessly wicked - Europeans and Native Americans and everybody else under the sun. And when I say 'apart from Christ,' I mean sincere, transformative heart belief in Christ and true faithfulness to his teachings. I do not mean nominal Christianity that was a cloak for the Catholic priests mentioned in this video!

    • @richardclare
      @richardclare ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kristinstrickland1038 hello 🤗

    • @ephraimrisesagain1592
      @ephraimrisesagain1592 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hmmm wonder who it says that will happen to?

    • @stevenbaker7025
      @stevenbaker7025 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So you grew up on a reservation and respect your ancestors? See indigenous peoples true power comes from their understanding that nature will always have the last 'word'. European descendants forgot their pagan and earlier ancestors also followed this same world view. Unfortunately industrialization and greed have taken away any chance of getting back to respecting anything not controlled by humans.

  • @luvzfrance24
    @luvzfrance24 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Savagery and barbarism? Really? Don't get me started on who is really savage and barbaric! 🤬

    • @enzop2835
      @enzop2835 ปีที่แล้ว

      The White sons and husbands who went to war and killed other White sons and husbands for the sake of owning people as property?

  • @catwhisperer968
    @catwhisperer968 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    So moving. Christians could learn so much from the Indian Nations of Americas

  • @AshANDLeeW
    @AshANDLeeW ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You know what's heartbreaking to me? The first time I heard about this in my 25 years of life was through the Paramount show "1923". I RAN to the internet to start trying to find personal accounts of these VIOLENT and DISGUSTING "school's" and I'm just sick. I am sick that it happened, I am sick that I haven't heard about this until now, that we don't talk about this more in school or life in general. If it makes me feel the way I'm feeling, I can't even fathom what it makes these families feel. What it makes all Native Americans feel. There's no way to make up for it. None.

  • @mysticpluck8
    @mysticpluck8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    It was a genocide.

  • @jtempleton1465
    @jtempleton1465 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This is vital work to bring this horror to the forefront of America's consciousness. We must address the horrific injustice and crime perpetrated upon our Native American brothers and sisters. Reparations must follow.🙏

  • @lynnessewimperfect825
    @lynnessewimperfect825 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Riveting. We need more stories about the horrors of the boarding schools, about efforts to locate and rebury the lost ones on their own land. Why are you the only network showcasing stories on the Indigenous peoples and the ancient tribes?

    • @richardclare
      @richardclare ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello 🤗 how are you doing today?

    • @jamesonp3873
      @jamesonp3873 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a documentary from about ten years ago called The Thick Dark Fog.

  • @ms_cartographer
    @ms_cartographer ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Catholic church should be forced to pay billions in reparations.

  • @hubertsumlin9697
    @hubertsumlin9697 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    This is a nasty piece of history that needs to be told

    • @meahdahlgren6537
      @meahdahlgren6537 ปีที่แล้ว

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

    • @athensmajnoo3661
      @athensmajnoo3661 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just about evey aspect of American history is nasty.

  • @coleengoodell7523
    @coleengoodell7523 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you for sharing this. For many who have not looked at the real history, as horrific as this is, it's just the tip of the iceberg. I found a VHS tape at my local library, a documentary titled "How the West was Lost" and found myself weeping through the entirety of it. It lead me to continue digging deeper into the true horrors of what occurred on this continent to the Native American people. It absolutely was genocide, for land, gold, silver and a truly cruel form of so called Christianity. Treaties and promises were nothing but things to be broken by Europeans/the white man. Those broken promises and more rights are still being broken to this day. How can a people heal when the abuse has not ended?

    • @Galimah
      @Galimah ปีที่แล้ว

      "welcome to the real world, not your paradise"

  • @dancinina4592
    @dancinina4592 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thank you NBC for doing a segment on this

  • @gingerguzman2022
    @gingerguzman2022 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I stand by my Native American Indians … my heart cries every time I hear what the “White man” did to our sacred land yes our land!

    • @Ibuddy66
      @Ibuddy66 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What can those of us who want to end the cycle our ancestors began do? I think it's important for us to ask and not just do what we want to do.

    • @thisistheway3812
      @thisistheway3812 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ibuddy66 yep

    • @peachiereader63
      @peachiereader63 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ibuddy66 same question

    • @user-sg8kq7ii3y
      @user-sg8kq7ii3y ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Ibuddy66 Unless the entire North America is given back to Native American people, then there's absolutely nothing you can do to make things right. You can't take an entire continent away from it's Native people, then ask, "What can we do to end this cycle?" Yet not be willing to give back their land. That's like me stealing your car, then apologizing to you by saying, "Sorry for stealing your car. How can I make it right?" Then you say to me, "You can make it right by returning my car to me." And I tell you, "Sorry, I can't do that. You'll have to think of something else."

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-sg8kq7ii3y Terrible analogy.

  • @cindywitter9741
    @cindywitter9741 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This should be taught in every school. My GreatGrandmother was sent to Carlisle in 1884. A white family went there looking for a slave to adopt, they took her, she never saw her family again. People used to be able to go into that school and just take children.

  • @linzs5042
    @linzs5042 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The abuse transcends into the current time through generations that have no idea what love is. Grandparents that were sent to these "schools" are treating their grandchildren like how they were treated.

    • @freethinkinmelanin6795
      @freethinkinmelanin6795 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same with black people. I just made the connection between the tough love/lack of love and how we were talked to and treated during colonization. English wasn't our first language. Everything we initially learned about the English language was through communication with the same people who thought us to be beneath them.

    • @theresalange1903
      @theresalange1903 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm a Lakota Grandmother and the 4th generation of boarding school survivors in my family. It is only because of love that I was finally able to break that cycle in my family. My sons have never been threatened by boarding schools. My Takoja (granddaughter) is loved and held sacred. Maybe what you say is true for some people, but healing is still happening around here.... nothing but love.

    • @WhirlWindWilder
      @WhirlWindWilder 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have not seen that in my tribe. Are you native...if not you know not what you speak

    • @linzs5042
      @linzs5042 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@WhirlWindWilder I was abused by the elders. My daughter was abused by elders. But my grandson will not be because my daughter and I won't let it happen.

    • @linzs5042
      @linzs5042 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @LGwild13 do u need to know tribal enrollment numbers too?

  • @jaezeejl
    @jaezeejl ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The “Land of the free” but only if you’re like them!! How do you call someone or even a tribe of people uncivilized but yet you snatched and killed and tortured those that never deserved to come across people like them

  • @hopenguyen2687
    @hopenguyen2687 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    We need to do more to bring these stories about Native People in USA. We must acknowledge the wrong we did to Native People when we conquer this land.

    • @guyburris4315
      @guyburris4315 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look up Hopis in Alcatraz. The more stories we share with each other the more the world will know.

  • @deborahkish5411
    @deborahkish5411 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My Grandfather was in a Residential school for approximately 6 yrs. He suffered from the trauma his entire life. Honor and Respect Grandfather.

  • @AngelaShawWestoven
    @AngelaShawWestoven ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This is a part of CRT that Republicans don't want our children to learn about. I know I was never taught this in school. Thank God for the internet.

    • @mcc.o.4835
      @mcc.o.4835 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This isn't critical race theory. This is America history.

    • @AngelaShawWestoven
      @AngelaShawWestoven ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@mcc.o.4835 You would have to know what CRT is. It's debate and discussion about Government sanctioned racist policies. It is a part of history.

    • @mcc.o.4835
      @mcc.o.4835 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AngelaShawWestoven CRT is a buzzword thrown around by Conservatives to get children and schools to not learn their history. The systems of power in this country want to keep you ignorant and in the dark because it benefits them.

    • @jakespoon5549
      @jakespoon5549 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Government sanctioned racist policies like affirmative action.

  • @sherridontmix620
    @sherridontmix620 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Church should be held accountable

  • @rosarioc.debaca1935
    @rosarioc.debaca1935 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Honor treaties, honor people.

  • @isaiaspeche9575
    @isaiaspeche9575 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is how the USA was back then Wow Why did Jesus let this happen to the Native Americans I hope one day the Native Americans can have their lands back

  • @angelwolfe6728
    @angelwolfe6728 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for covering this! 😢

    • @richardclare
      @richardclare ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello how are you doing today?

  • @sixtyonenine
    @sixtyonenine ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I seen this on TV tonight . We have lots of real work to do as a country if we want to lead the free world as an example of what a country should be

    • @sammie7641
      @sammie7641 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's too late. The rest of the world knows the truth and will never in any future want to be led by the US. What gives this country the right to lead the rest of the world anyway. Do you think this country is so blessed by the almighty Creator that he- GOD approves of all the evil and immoral actions that have occurred to all brown skin people in this country. Wake up and come out of your ridiculous imagination!

    • @richardboswell9306
      @richardboswell9306 ปีที่แล้ว

      America is not the only free country also you do not lead

  • @IiIypads
    @IiIypads ปีที่แล้ว +6

    my heart aches for my Native ancestors. I wasn't close to my Indigenous family growing up so I wasn't aware that this even happened until the massive burial sites in Canada were all over the news, and now Indigenous children may be forced away from their tribes AGAIN in the present day due to the possible overturning of ICWA. we cannot let the US government continue to erase Native culture.

  • @therockstar123456
    @therockstar123456 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Why should the people who inflict pain onto others deserve healing. They don’t need any healing. They need to be held accountable and be responsible for the behaviors of their horrible ancestors that caused plus helped this genocide. The only people who need healing are the victims not the perpetrators

    • @a.e.rromero5403
      @a.e.rromero5403 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hear what you are saying but everyone deserves to heal.

  • @raintartsah3218
    @raintartsah3218 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    “You have to Forgive, the Unforgivable” …that was deep but very true 🥺 I graduated in 2003 from Riverside Indian Boarding School in Oklahoma

    • @maryannemorgan1879
      @maryannemorgan1879 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Forgive the Unforgivable...More easily said than done if you have never directly experienced it or saw it and just stood by and watched. Historical Trauma has made its way into Native DNA and that has been historically and scientifically proven. It sickens me with one thinking that it can be easily swept under a rug and all is forgiven! We need acknowledgement and reconciliation. It is the main cause of the familial breakdown, substance abuse, and loss of identity of the Indian people. Thank you for shedding light on a subject that needs to be told.

    • @meahdahlgren6537
      @meahdahlgren6537 ปีที่แล้ว

      Raintartsah3218 ❤❤❤❤

  • @colvilletribe2383
    @colvilletribe2383 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It caused generational trauma still being felt to this day.......

  • @hopenguyen2687
    @hopenguyen2687 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    We need to know all the names of people, of the churches, of organizations, of federal govt, who ran these programs.
    We have to see the wrong to make it right. Who are the leaders from these Catholic Schools.

  • @YoursTrulyThe1Pony
    @YoursTrulyThe1Pony ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am proud to be born into a unique society of America as part of Native American people. This was sick what the American government once did to my people and our culture.

  • @liamskopal7516
    @liamskopal7516 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That people who are supposed to have devoted their lives to Christ commit such grave atrocities is sickening.

  • @erikk8629
    @erikk8629 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My cousins we are sorry. We showed up way too late. Ecuador native american reaching out to anyone who needs my help.

  • @bigsadie5557
    @bigsadie5557 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you so much for covering this

  • @noelinevillebrun3698
    @noelinevillebrun3698 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What happened to all of us in NWT Canada! I am one survivor! ✊🏽🙏🏽🦅

  • @cunderw12
    @cunderw12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Don’t ever carry hate, or prejudice because it’s poison”. Now this is something I live by. As a Native walk with your head held high. Share your history. Spread awareness on the mistreatment of all Indigenous tribes, and do it with love. ❤️‍🩹🫶🏽

  • @caitlinweiss8801
    @caitlinweiss8801 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I hate that this happened and I hate that this is rarely talked about. Thank you for bringing this up, I'd love to see more education content like this.

  • @doctorgoldbud1321
    @doctorgoldbud1321 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It is sad what happened to the American Indians, I myself am from Indian descent, I had relatives on the Trail of Tears, our government order go in and build these people new houses, let them live their way of life, if anyone needs reparations it should be the Indian people, in the church that was there should be ashamed of their self.

    • @giuseppegeer7552
      @giuseppegeer7552 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was just thinking that. Why can’t the church just be normal? I personally know chaplains that live in poverty but provide so much. Why can’t the church just be normal like him? It’s disgraceful

    • @sadejones6657
      @sadejones6657 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Indian ple. They are indigenous people. They do not come from India.....

    • @jakespoon5549
      @jakespoon5549 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One third of the people on the Trail of Tears were black slaves owned by the Cherokee.

    • @meahdahlgren6537
      @meahdahlgren6537 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@sadejones6657❤❤❤

  • @jaiyabyrd4177
    @jaiyabyrd4177 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh My God
    It's hard to listen to this, but I'm so glad the truth is coming out.
    My prayers go out to these innocent Natives.
    It's history like this that makes white supremacists Americans revolt against Critical Race History of Natives, Blacks and Chinese men in America ‼️

  • @tuffyenglish
    @tuffyenglish ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's amazing that they find themselves in this horrific history that America had them to undergo through.
    It's their land, and not to question, but in reality, America society acts as if not.
    However, what comes to my mind is that: is America going to forget ever black people history, too?

  • @anthonywyatt5133
    @anthonywyatt5133 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This comment section is much better than I thought it would be

  • @healwithmalika
    @healwithmalika 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It is so horrible to see these same rules of genocide now applied in Palestine and Congo. By the same governments. They do not learn from their mistakes.
    Although I am from Central Asia (Uzbekistan) I was always fascinated by indigenous people around the world.
    If I have children one day, I will teach them your history, culture and wisdom.
    I cry as I listen to the stories of the oppressed, and pray for justice, liberation and healing for all.

  • @albertbeall9140
    @albertbeall9140 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Native American people deserved to have reparation if the government is talking about preparation for black people in CA, just saying!

  • @pensamientosdeuncubanoamer7921
    @pensamientosdeuncubanoamer7921 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    #TrueAmericans Thank you. You may not consider yourself American, but the legacy that Native Americans have left behind and continue to live out is the foundation set for a renewed vision of our shared humanity and what it means to be American. Only in the recognition and reckoning of our country’s past can we truly be a free people. American is no longer owned by Anglo Saxons. America is owned by us all. Once again, thank you #FirstAmericans

  • @samanthahicks3333
    @samanthahicks3333 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was glad to hear the priest agree with and not deny the need for the truth. That finding the truth and owning it is the first step to moving forward. No matter what that means.

  • @dawnserrano737
    @dawnserrano737 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Shame on all who put this on our people!

  • @chrysallis2735
    @chrysallis2735 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    RIP grandpa Jack, brave
    Ft. Belknap Indian Mission School survivor
    They will never erase us 🐢🕊⭐️❤️

  • @kimberlysisk6410
    @kimberlysisk6410 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This breaks my 💔

  • @Wahcawatoglawin
    @Wahcawatoglawin ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I wonder what my life would have been like if I didn't have to survive this generational trauma..🤔..

  • @toniemcfadden296
    @toniemcfadden296 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Absolutely horrible!! And to think they are still running these places.. and you can't convince me they have changed for the better!! Horrible

  • @elora179
    @elora179 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    America at its finest 😂. Abducting and caging the people from the land they stole. Make America Great Again 😂😂😂

  • @classicrocker889
    @classicrocker889 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a Country We Should have INDIAN Holidays and more Coins not just the Buffalo Nickel. It is BEYOND SHAMEFUL WHAT THE u.s. did to the INDIAN. This Country was Stolen from them , it is theirs.

  • @thisistheway3812
    @thisistheway3812 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is very sad, the natives did not deserve that. But there is nothing that us people that believe in common rights can't to anything about the people that made the indigenous people suffered.

  • @dan49781
    @dan49781 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Happened in Michigan until the 1980s.

  • @judd442009
    @judd442009 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the way that Cynthia McFadden didn't let the Jesuit priest sidestep her question. He tried to pivot, and she wouldn't let him go there. The fact that these native men defended the nation which was stolen from them is remarkable.

  • @loopylynda1974
    @loopylynda1974 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Having spent months years ago on the Navajo reservation I am a firm believer we need to bring reparations and stop continuing to take their land still today. Thanksgiving should be renamed Thankstaking and should be entirely transformed to pay homage to the many tribes we stole so much from.

  • @KahwahShutseh
    @KahwahShutseh ปีที่แล้ว +3

    24:06 Whiteplume and Braveheart are not speaking fundamentally different things at all.
    Whiteplume isn't speaking through hate rather he speaks from a sense of injustice.
    Whiteplume says the U.S. needs to take accountability and this needs to become a forefront topic, this is the way to deal with it for healing to begin for all.
    Braveheart says we can talk about it but the perpetrators will never forget their cruelty and the divine will deal with justice (as he was taught and how he deals with the trauma to move forward) but he cannot say that the "divine" is not guiding justice to take place using the actions Whiteplume and many of us call for.

  • @marilynfoster2546
    @marilynfoster2546 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “I think you just side stepped my question.” ✊🏽

  • @SayanHaqueOfficial
    @SayanHaqueOfficial 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow❤❤❤

  • @therockstar123456
    @therockstar123456 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The catholic church is asking forgiveness to their god not to the people they killed and helped murder.

  • @tashenamason
    @tashenamason 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm glad this is coming out... This is not new to us or our relatives, but being heard and seen is. It's way past time for our children to come home 🙏🏽

  • @dawnserrano737
    @dawnserrano737 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's just horrible..and why..for what!?

  • @danerd2002
    @danerd2002 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    wow, big love to the indigenous community 🫶🏾

  • @artoswr
    @artoswr ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cultural (+ economic) Genocide 💔

  • @quitequiet5281
    @quitequiet5281 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These things are still happening...

  • @Jaromeo1287
    @Jaromeo1287 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My country (Canada) has been going through Truth and Reconciliation for several years now. We've been taught about the residential schools in grade school for even longer but I always knew there was more to the story because they hadn't found the unmarked graves of the hundreds of children yet. That happened in 2017. 215 at one school. 700+ in another. The dead don't lie. My country committed genocide on First Nations people and The United States did too. Your turn America! I can't wait to hear the racist reactions of despicable Republicans to these heartbreaking stories because it will just further cement the death of their flawed ideologies. All the power to First Nations people. Shout your stories to the heavens. Your justice is coming. They deserve heavy reparations payments just like the ancestors of black slaves do.

    • @cielonehellofaservicedog4648
      @cielonehellofaservicedog4648 ปีที่แล้ว

      last count, i saw was they found around 10k...There is a reason they would sing their child's death song before they left..the survival rate was less than 50%..in some places it was almost guaranteed you wouldn't see your child again...

    • @JDoe-gf5oz
      @JDoe-gf5oz ปีที่แล้ว

      You talking about that mass grave some activist claimed was there and turned out to be empty? Try looking at sources not bathed in liberalism sometime.

  • @motherofangels1710
    @motherofangels1710 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'll never forget the day I learned of these atrocities. At a Native friends home helping with their harvest when we broke for lunch. My friends mother helped me make sandwiches then sat by me after they were all handed out. I asked her what it was like when my friend & his brothers were little, while sharing her stories she got into the story of her childhood and the forced separation from her parents and people to be forced into a boarding school run by nuns. She was beaten daily, they were also punished through starvation. Forced to work in fields and constant prayer. Locked in a tiny dark room where you couldn't sit down for 12+ hours. Couldn't speak their language and were always called names & told they were dirty and savages & had to pray to ask forgiveness.
    I was so horrified at what she was telling me and what she survived, all I could do was cry. It made me sick to my stomach (still does). Even though my ancestors didn't migrate here from Norway & Germany until the 40s & 50s ai still felt a terrible shame. It is infuriating the horrific acts that the American government & religious groups committed & have tried to keep hidden and continue to make excuses for or minimise. I do not understand how anyone can treat another in such deplorable sadistic ways and continue on with life like it's no big deal. Everyone is freaking out about how America is being invaded by illegal immigrants... just imagine if they started killing off your food sources, forcibly took over your home & land, stole your children, forbade your language & beliefs & tradition, denied you fair trial, poisoned your water, purposely infected you with deadly diseases and wiped out half your people. Then pretend none of it happened.

  • @ronaldzeigler9057
    @ronaldzeigler9057 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    100,000 stolen
    40,000 lives ended
    Think of the guilt of Americans and how CRT could be a healing!

  • @nativestacker4185
    @nativestacker4185 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you NBC News for doing this story , My mother was a survivor of The Boarding Schools , and some people who I have told can not believe that anything like that ever happened , some are ashamed , and some just don't want to hear about it .

  • @dystopianwarlord
    @dystopianwarlord ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for covering the truth

  • @RedDirtAlleyPhotography
    @RedDirtAlleyPhotography ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's WAAAAAY past time the truth be told and reparations be made.

  • @vacuumlover1
    @vacuumlover1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:26 I can’t believe he was able to learn clarinet even after all of that!!

  • @ovallematt
    @ovallematt ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for bringing awarenss about my people.

  • @yvonneplant9434
    @yvonneplant9434 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've been to Carlyle, PA where one of these schools was.

    • @richardclare
      @richardclare ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello how are you doing today?

  • @mikegggg222
    @mikegggg222 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    LONE BUFFALO, was an unknown warrior,name was given by shamen,at Noisy Rock,HE fought till 1930s,

  • @hanialhalaluyahuah222
    @hanialhalaluyahuah222 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Only a fraction but TRUTH none the less... HalALuYaHUaH...more TRUTH there too!!

  • @k.491
    @k.491 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And preaching about justice to the world.....

  • @wientz
    @wientz ปีที่แล้ว +17

    We tried to make the massive problems by residential schools in Canada fully public and are now trying to patch that up. You have to admit that there was a problem before you can fix it. It has raised some healthy debate and awareness.

  • @BanditXVIII
    @BanditXVIII ปีที่แล้ว +2

    t́igʷicid (Thank You) from the Coast Salish. Just a simple awareness that it ever happened is enough to open the eyes of anyone around, so it may be seen and not repeated.
    🤲 Huy!

  • @christya2488
    @christya2488 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This makes me sick.

  • @aphrodittee3790
    @aphrodittee3790 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    😪 One day!….One day! All Tribes!…I mean all Tribes from the four corners will rise together and reclaim justice! One race! Many Genocides, Many Tribes will reclaim their lands and avenge their ancestors!🙏🏼

  • @audreydonavanlove7005
    @audreydonavanlove7005 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Same thing happened in canada also

  • @watchingcorruption295
    @watchingcorruption295 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The government openly and officially started this with the 1838 Indian Removal Act ,it had been going on for years .

  • @shama9279
    @shama9279 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My mother and sisters spent their entire life in wheelock academy in Oklahoma.
    Cruelty was allowed and overlooked and still.
    Catholic and government are against humanity.

  • @rauxieswisdom3102
    @rauxieswisdom3102 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We cannot change the past. And healing requires an acknowledgement.
    We can move toward restoring what was destroyed. But, we need to do it where it is inclusive to all natives, just because the white blood in me is watered down, doesn’t mean I don’t have soul ties. Those ties will not let me overlook what happened to my people. When your own family sits on records because they where made ashamed of who they are, and so you don’t seek your heritage, that alone tells of the post traumatic stress that goes unchecked.
    I hope we get there. I am 60 Years old and have spent countless years, trying to unravel the things no one talks about. It took me this long to figure out who my people are. And now that I know, for the first time , home felt real, that is until I learned of the discrimination of the pure blood narrative. So, everywhere I go with this, there’s a wall I have to climb just to be, who I should’ve been, all along.

  • @carolinejohnson1249
    @carolinejohnson1249 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I believe that this was done to destroy the spiritual beliefs...of the people

  • @beckybrown553
    @beckybrown553 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😥💔

  • @rosebennett6015
    @rosebennett6015 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This happened with the Alaskan Native children as well! Not just the lower 48 states.

  • @kathyabeauty
    @kathyabeauty 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I so appreciate coverage like this. So important to hear from Survivors and historians. It was all about the land grab and about the total disregard of the rights to live freely in their own culture of the original inhabitants of this country. The catholic church and the government need to show accountability!😢

  • @FlowKio
    @FlowKio ปีที่แล้ว

    In shamattawa some elders are still afraid of talking about their time in boarding schools due to fear of being arrested for running away from them, that’s how bad it was.

  • @joegrande4848
    @joegrande4848 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    People fear what they dont know or yet to understand. Words my great grandfather and grandfather said. God bless them and God bless all indigenous people. I have deep respect for people of different cultures. Especially indigenous Indians because its part of my heritage. We can learn so much from people from different cultures especially Native American its time we start learning and respecting all people of all cultures races and nationalities especially Native American. 😊❤ ive come to learn ask these amazing people where they reside learn their tribe and we call these amazing people by the tribe obviously learn their name too. Best part we can make incredible friends of these amazing people 😊❤

  • @leemorgan8725
    @leemorgan8725 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why hasn’t the government organised the GPR investigation of the grave areas, surely the American Army EOD Engineers have GPR equipment and could easily assist in the in the search, if anything it would be a great training exercise for them.

  • @Kitiwake
    @Kitiwake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did they find any murdered children yet?
    There almost a year in now.