Indian Country remembers the trauma of children taken from their parents

[Bayard]

Indian Country remembers. This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families. “The act of ripping children away from their parents is nothing new for the United States. Separating children and their families to ‘kill the Indian to save the man’ by sending Native children to boarding schools, and doing it in the name of religion, is one generation removed from my family,” wrote Peggy Flanagan on Twitter. Flanagan, an Indigenous member of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe, is a candidate for lieutenant governor in Minnesota. “Trump’s ‘zero tolerance policy’ is nothing more than a clear violation of human rights. We must learn from history. We must stand with immigrants and refugees.”

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-06-19/indian-country-remembers-trauma-children-taken-their-parents

An article cited there is also pretty grim:

Tiny Horrors: A Chilling Reminder of How Cruel Assimilation Was—And Is

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/tiny-horrors-a-chilling-reminder-of-how-cruel-assimilation-was-and-is-VLKL7I26wUSj4LmZL_YDvw/

[lunasun]

1. Some small children were taken and held until adult hood . They could not speak to thier family

Because they no longer knew thee language
And please let's not forget how slavery broke families before that
Many new young immigrants "lost" may wind up as someone's house slave under the guise of child care

[Duppers]

2. Read some of the 2nd link.

It was indeed chilling.

There are current natives blogging here:
https://firstnations.org/Stories

[roamer65]

3. Dump is tearing these old wounds wide open.

We European Americans need to own up to our transgressions and do what we can to heal them, even if it takes reparations.

[Duppers]

4. Evil is...

"The destruction of innocent people for personal incentive."

This is evil. The Republican lawmakers are evil.

[Bayard]

5. Are these kids even being provided with translators?