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[Mike__M]

Two recent stories in the news:

Shooting of Native man shines light on police killings

Police contend that Castaway got “dangerously close” to officers with a knife, causing them to open fire. But according to eyewitnesses, Castaway was holding the blade to his own throat moments before he was gunned down.

( http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/22/denver-police-shoot-mentally-ill-native-american.html )

Confronting the legacy of Genocide: Addressing the Impacts of American Indian Boarding Schools

...they had this message verbally beaten into them: “You’re here because your parents don’t love you. That’s why you’re here. And that’s why they’re not coming to get you.”

So now you get out when you’re 18. You haven’t had a home, your mom and dad, a loving, nurturing environment to raise you. And you have this idea in your head, “You’re not loved; you’re not wanted; everything about you is devilish.”

You can tell them, “Mom and Dad did love you, but that was federal policy. They had no choice, you had to go.” You can tell them that until you are blue in the face, but that other message is too firmly implanted.

That’s one of the saddest, most heartbreaking things I’ve witnessed from survivors.

I hear how difficult it is for some survivors to even say, “I love you.” They can’t say “I love you” to their own children – it’s too difficult because of what mentally and physically beaten into them.

( http://lastrealindians.com/confronting-the-legacy-of-genocide-addressing-the-impacts-of-american-indian-boarding-schools/)