Generations Stolen | Indian Boarding Schools
Clip: Season 7 Episode 5 | 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Denise Lajimodiere (Ojibwe) talks about the traumatic history of Indian boarding schools.
Denise Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) talks about the history of the off-reservation Native/Indian boarding schools and the generational trauma they created for the survivors and their loved ones. She also shares how the schools affected her own family as her father and her grandfather were sent to Fort Totten Indian Industrial School in North Dakota.
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Generations Stolen | Indian Boarding Schools
Clip: Season 7 Episode 5 | 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Denise Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) talks about the history of the off-reservation Native/Indian boarding schools and the generational trauma they created for the survivors and their loved ones. She also shares how the schools affected her own family as her father and her grandfather were sent to Fort Totten Indian Industrial School in North Dakota.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gloomy music) - I've been doing research along with the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition for about a decade.
The first off-reservation federal boarding school was 1879.
They developed pretty rapidly after that.
(gloomy music) The social ills that we're experiencing now, so many of them come from the boarding school era.
This is where my father and my grandfather were sent here.
I want America to be aware of what happened to us.
I called it America's best kept secret.
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