Generations Stolen | Trailer
Preview: Season 7 Episode 5 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Native communities work to overcome trauma from government policies separating families.
Native American communities are grappling with the fallout of government policies which separated Native children from their families and stripped them of their culture - first at boarding schools, and later in white adoptive and foster homes. On June 15, 2023, the Supreme Court rejected challenges to ICWA, a victory for Native communities working to overcome generations of trauma.
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Generations Stolen | Trailer
Preview: Season 7 Episode 5 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Native American communities are grappling with the fallout of government policies which separated Native children from their families and stripped them of their culture - first at boarding schools, and later in white adoptive and foster homes. On June 15, 2023, the Supreme Court rejected challenges to ICWA, a victory for Native communities working to overcome generations of trauma.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I want America to be aware of what happened to us.
I call it America's best-kept secret.
- [TINA] For decades, Native children were forcibly removed from their families and tribes by federal and state authorities.
- With a swing of the gavel, a white judge said that she was morally unfit to raise her children.
And they told her, "You will never see your child."
(brooding music) - Abuse, neglect, bullying, torture, and pain.
- [TINA] As survivors heal from the trauma, they fight to protect their culture and communities.
- It took four generations to heal the trauma that was created from my mother being taken from our people.
- To be a family again makes me so happy.
(chuckles) - Let us take care of our children.
It's our right to take care of them.
- [TINA] Presented by Retro Report Generations Stolen on Local, USA.
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Generations Stolen | Indian Boarding Schools
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Denise Lajimodiere (Ojibwe) talks about the traumatic history of Indian boarding schools. (51s)
Generations Stolen | Indian Child Welfare Act
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The Senate hearing and grassroots movement that led to the Indian Child Welfare Act. (2m 2s)
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Native communities work to overcome trauma from government policies separating families. (30s)
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