Victims of abusive, government-backed Native American boarding schools are sharing their experiences as U
MISSION, S.D. — — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Solider was just four years old, she was put into a Native American boarding school in South Dakota and told her native Lakota language was “devil's speak.”
Now 78 and still living on the reservation, Whirlwind said she was airing her horrific experiences in hopes of finally getting past them. Most closed their doors long ago and none still exist to strip students of their identities. But some, including St. Francis, still function as schools — albeit with drastically different missions that celebrate the cultural backgrounds of their Native students.
“They all had the same missions, the same goals: ‘Kill the Indian, save the man,’” said Lacey Kinnart, who works for the Minnesota-based coalition. For Native American children, Kinnart said the intention was “to assimilate them and steal everything Indian out of them except their blood, make them despise who they are, their culture, and forget their language.”
All that remains of the boarding school is a gutted-out building that used to house the dining hall, according to tribal members. When the building caught fire about five years ago, former student Patti Romero, 73, said she and others were on hand to cheer its destruction.
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