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Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools

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Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools - Churchill, Ward
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For five 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 ...

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Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools 2004, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA

ISBN-13: 9780872864344

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