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SamKnause

(14,157 posts)
1. Native Americans
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 12:59 PM
Feb 2014

Starting in the 1800's, the U.S. federal government started on a systematic effort to eliminate the use of many Native American languages by compelling young American Indians to study and converse in English, and by sending them to boarding schools, .................................

What a crock of shit.

Native American children were ripped from the arms of their parents and FORCED into boarding schools.

They were humiliated, mistreated, and beaten.

They were forbidden to speak in their native tongues.

They were forced to have their hair cut.

They were forced to wear the clothes of the white man.

They were forced to take the name of white men.

I don't know what kind of fairytale Chad Uran is trying to spread, but he is full of shit !!!!

The Native Americans had no choice.

They were forced using brutality.

Own up to what the U.S. federal government did to the Native American people and stop trying to sugar coat it.

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