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A powerful look at the history of Native American boarding schools as told through the stories of tribal members and the | dG1fTmNtalhrNmtVWEE
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00:00I have often likened our situation to the Holocaust.
00:06When I hear the name Carlisle School, that's that place that killed our people.
00:12They wanted to change us, to make us look like them, talk like them, kill the Indian, save the man.
00:19Children are viewed as sacred. That's why they took their most precious resource, their children.
00:25For the school to bury our people in unmarked graves tells me there was no respect.
00:31Grandfather, may I ask that you let these children know that they're not forgotten?
00:36She's got to be burying somewhere. We just don't know where she is.
00:39Children that the government lost track of, to each of those unknown graves means.
00:44How could they lose a child?
00:46I have an obligation to her to bring her home.
00:49In spite of everything that happened to us, we survived. We're still here.
00:53The Lost Children of Carlisle
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