![]() He tells the story of a community in Nebraska trying to uncover the truth about one of the country’s largest and longest running boarding schools. Last year, the discovery of more than a thousand graves of children at the sites of former boarding schools in Canada pushed the USA to examine its own history.ĪBC journalist Stan Grant, whose family was impacted by Australia’s assimilationist policies of forcibly removing children from families, presents this powerful story. did a number on our people where we almost did not recuperate from it." -Redwing Thomas, Teacher, Santee Sioux Nation. "We've been severed from our language, from our culture, from our practices over a whole course of time, but the boarding school era that. Their purpose was to assimilate indigenous children into the white man’s world.īy 1926, it’s estimated more than 80 per cent of Native American children were enrolled in these institutions. The Genoa school was one of a network of institutions for Native American children set up in the 19th and 20th centuries across the USA. The State Archaeologist is using ground penetrating radar to try and locate an old cemetery that is somewhere on the grounds of the former Genoa US Indian Industrial School. On the frozen plains of Nebraska, a community is digging up its past. ![]() ![]() "A cemetery at a school is not the norm – that you could die and then you’re gonna be buried out the door?" - Judi gaiashkibos, Commission on Indian Affairs, Nebraska
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