I’ve got a new episode of Missing Chapter for y’all — about colonization, cultural genocide, and how the US stole thousands of Native American children. Hope you can take a few minutes to check it out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqWRyBCHhw …
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And with the help of genius
@alv9n we also made a rough map of all 357 Native American boarding schools that have existed in the US — places where so many were forced to assimilate into white America, to speak English, cut their hair, and leave their families and cultures behindpic.twitter.com/kEC1sWqEN4
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We initially set out to only cover the history of these Native American boarding schools — but along the way we learned about another era of forced assimilation that was an extension of that history: adoption
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US social workers systematically swept native children off of reservations, commodified them, and tried to sell them to white families for adoption. e.g. wild articles like thispic.twitter.com/PdsW2SanPh
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I’m so grateful to the native adoptees who shared their experiences with us in the video. And
@mmhirschh and@monalalwani for making this story happen from start to finish! Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day, here’s to learning the stuff they sure as hell left out of my textbooks.
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Hi, I would love to include this in my lecture powerpoint when I talk to students about continental expansion. Do you have it posted somewhere I can link or download?
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the gif and map are also in the post on our site here, feel free to download it from there!https://www.vox.com/2019/10/14/20913408/us-stole-thousands-of-native-american-children …
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I’ve been researching the “Indian State” of Oklahoma recently. So much was taken from our native peoples.
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Thank you for this visual--it is shocking and direct. Do you have a link to the data that you used? Or would you be willing to share how you built this?
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The data is nowhere close to accurate.
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This is very cool but I would love a slower version.
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You could probably make one.
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