Subtitle: The genocidal impact of American Indian residential schools
Author: Churchill, Ward
Year: 2004
ISBN: 9780872864344
Pages: 128
Language: English
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publisher's city: San Francisco
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Kill the Indian, Save the Man
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For 5 consecutive generations, from roughly 1880-1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to “kill the Indian to save the man”. Half of the children did not survive the experience, and those who did were left permanently scarred. The resulting alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to their own children has led to a social disintegration with results that can only be described as genocidal.