Kill The Indian; Save The Child

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"Kill The Indian; Save The Child"

This was a white philosophy of assimilation for a time,
here in the United States.*

Most do not know that beginning in the late 1800s Indian children were forcibly taken from their homes and placed into institutions like Carlisle Indian School or in Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools, and when the government decided that the children had to be divested of their traditional religious beliefs, Christian boarding schools were constructed on or near the Indian reservations.

I don't know which school this is. But this image chews up the soul.

Source: facebook

"We are boarding school survivors."

To this day the Indian nations are still in the process of recovery.

HuffPost

Similarly, when slavery ended in the United States, black women had to go to court or enter the U.S. legal system via the Freedman's Bureau to get their children back--if they could. A United States court could rule that a black child was better off with white people because the white people had the income and housing to take care of the child whereas the black mother did not. This essentially meant that black children remained a slave for all practical purposes...after slavery ended.

~from "Where and When I Enter" by Paula J Giddings

*Australia had a similar policy - Whites in Australia removed Aborigine's children "for the children's own good." Only the whtie Australians were using the children as indentured servants/slaves, among other things. The movie "Rabbit Proof Fence" attempts to tell that story.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-giago/kill-the-indian-save-the_b_6244154.html





On a side note, I saw video of Adrian Peterson's previous child abuse incident. He never would have gotten past me to court for a child abuse charge. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/9/15/6154877/adrian-peterson-investigation-child-abuse-second-incident