National Geographic has just come out with a new documentary that is worth your time.
Sugarcane
The documentary states that hundreds of thousands of children attended Indian schools across North America. There were 139 in Canada and 408 in the United States. The last one closed in 1997.
One of them was is Utah’s Brigham City, established in 1949 and closed in 1984.
This article shows a more positive side to the Utah school.
This was White North American’s attempt to “remove the Indian” from those who lived on the land first. This was colonization of the mind in the form of “missionary work.” This was what was considered, “the Indian problem.”
This documentary speaks about the rape and abuse done to the young girls and boys by the Priests and what they did with the babies from those acts of rape.
Sunstone’s Mormon History Podcast
You would also benefit to know how our Mormon ancestors contributed to the efforts to wipe out the Native population.
Wasters and Destroyers: Episode 112 (this one hit too close to home for me. Our Mormon ancestors participated in the genocide of the Timpanogos tribe. My Mormon ancestors settled all over on Timpanogos land.)
The Indian Slave Trade: Episode 124
The Walker War, Part 1: Episode 126
The Walker War, Part 2: Episode 127
Why deliberately watch/listen to something that will most definitely make you cry? Perhaps the collective knowledge will hopefully help us see where we can actively vote for people and policies that take all of this knowledge into consideration, and make a better world for those that it was taken from.
