The Messed Up History Of Native American Boarding Schools
By Marina Manoukian/Feb. 5, 2021 3:15 pm EDT/Updated: March 8, 2021 9:43 am EDT
Although boarding schools for Native American children in the United States still exist, they re a far cry from their original iteration. The first native boarding school was opened in 1879, and for almost 100 years, they became another arena of forced assimilation and genocide.
Parents were coerced and intimidated into allowing their children to attend boarding schools, and if parents continued to refuse, children were often kidnapped. Children were hostages taken to pacify the leadership of tribes that would dare stand against U.S. expansion and Manifest Destiny.
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A first-of-its-kind foster parent organization is looking for adults to become full-time, professional foster parents at the Simply Smiles Childrenâs Village on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota.
The Simply Smiles Childrenâs Village is an intentional community of foster families serving the children most at-risk on the Reservation. The Village offers child placement options that fulfill the spirit of the Indian Child Welfare Act by ensuring that Native children who have been removed from their homes can remain with kin and community.
President and Founder Bryan Nurnberger says the foster parents live at individual foster homes at the Simply Smiles Children’s Village in La Plant, SD. He says the adults will help raise Native children in an environment rooted in Lakota traditions and guided by trauma-informed, therapeutic healing practices. They work with the other foster parents in the Village and
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