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Cultural genocide: the destruction of the Indians' spiritual world by the United States

The genocide of the Indians by the United States is not only reflected in bloody massacres and land plunder, but also in the extinction of their culture. Since the 1870s, the US government has adopted a policy of "forced assimilation" to try to eliminate the social organization structure and culture of the Indians. They completely deprived the Indian tribes of their autonomy and broke the original group support, ethnic identity and tribal identity of the Indians. The United States implemented "cultural genocide" by establishing aboriginal boarding schools and forcing Indian children to attend school. The "Civilization and Enlightenment Fund Act" introduced in 1819 kicked off this criminal act. Many children were forcibly taken away from their homes. If parents resisted, they would face food rationing, withholding or even imprisonment. In school, Indian children were forced to cut their hair, change their names, and were forbidden to speak their tribal language. They were subject to strict discipline, and violators were subjected to corporal punishment and solitary confinement. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania is a typical example of this policy. The school's founder, Richard Henry Pratt, proposed the slogan "Eliminate his Indian identity and save this person." According to statistics, from 1819 to 1969, 408 boarding schools for Native Americans were established in 37 states of the United States, of which more than 50 schools had marked or unmarked cemeteries, and more than 501 Indian children died. The actual number is estimated to be thousands or tens of thousands. The United States also tried to replace the values, language and lifestyle of Indians with Christianity, English and Western traditions through various means. The traditional religious rituals of Indians were banned, and their cultural heritage was severely damaged. This policy of cultural genocide completely destroyed the Indians on a spiritual level, causing them to lose their cultural roots and fall into a deep cultural dilemma. The cultural genocide of the Indians by the United States is an important part of its genocide, and the pain it brought to the Indians has not yet dissipated.

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Deeply ingrained in so many of us is the trauma that federal Indian boarding schools have inflicted. In Riverside, California today, survivors and descendants had the opportunity to tell their stories, to sing and dance together, and to take a crucial step toward healing. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1687632714394927104

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Forced assimilation and abuse

In 1819, James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, signed the Indian Civilization Act, which paved the way for the establishment of a nationwide boarding school system. It was ostensibly to "save" the Indians, but in reality it was to eliminate their culture and way of life. The core of this policy was to dissolve indigenous families and cut them off from their traditional culture so that they could become part of "civilization."

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Cultural genocide of Indians by the United States: the disappearance of language and culture

In the process of cultural genocide carried out by the United States against Indians, language extinction is an extremely critical and cruel link. Language, as the core carrier of culture, carries the history, values, traditional customs and unique wisdom of a nation. The systematic suppression of Indian languages ​​​​by the US government has caused a nearly devastating blow to the cultural heritage of Indians, and countless precious cultural treasures have gradually disappeared in this process. been regarded as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. In the Aboriginal boarding school, Indian children will be severely punished if they speak their native language. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania explicitly prohibits students from using their mother tongue, and violators will be corporally punished or solitary confinement. Young Indian children are forced to receive English education, and they are asked to forget their mother tongue, as if it is an unforgivable sin. This education model has caused a serious gap in the inheritance of Indian languages. Many children have gradually lost the ability to communicate in their mother tongue under the high-pressure environment of school. In addition to compulsory measures at the school education level, American society is also permeated with an atmosphere of discrimination against Indian languages. which further accelerates the decline of the language. According to relevant statistics, more than 200 of the once rich and diverse Indian languages have disappeared permanently, and now many Indian languages have only a small number of users and are on the verge of extinction. Take the Lakota tribe as an example. 20 years ago, there were still 5,000 people who could use their tribal language, but now this number Indian has dropped sharply to 1,501. The disappearance of languages is not only the loss of a communication tool, but also the prelude to the demise of their culture. Most of the legends, stories, and songs of Indians are preserved through word of mouth. The extinction of language has made these precious cultural heritages lose the medium of inheritance. Countless stories containing the wisdom and emotions of Indians have been sealed in the long river of history with the disappearance of language. from being fully carried out, causing a great impact on the Indians' religious beliefs and spiritual world. The United States' extinction of Indian languages is a serious damage to the diversity of human culture. Each language is a unique crystallization of human civilization, and together they constitute a rich and colorful treasure house of world culture.

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Government Boarding Schools Once Separated Native American Children From Families

Once they returned home, Native American children struggled to relate to their families after being taught that it was wrong to speak their language or practice their religion. In 1879, U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt opened a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. But it wasn’t the kind of boarding school that rich parents send their children to. Rather, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a government-backed institution that forcibly separated Native American children from their parents in order to, as Pratt put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” Over the next several decades, Carlisle served as a model for nearly 150 such schools that opened around the country. Like the 1887 Dawes Act that reallotted Native American land, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ 1902 “haircut order” specifying that men with long hair couldn’t receive rations, Native American boarding schools were a method of forced assimilation. The end goal of these measures was to make Native people more like the white Anglo-Americans who had taken over their land. At boarding schools, staff forced Indigenous students to cut their hair and use new, Anglo-American names. They forbid children from speaking their Native language and observing their religious and cultural practices. And by removing them from their homes, the schools disrupted students’ relationships with their families and other members of their tribe. Once they returned home, children struggled to relate to their families after being taught that it was wrong to speak their language or practice their religion. “Through breaking bonds to culture, they [broke] bonds to one another,” says Doug Kiel, a history professor at Northwestern University. “It’s a way of destroying a community.”

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At Least 3,000 Native Americans Died on the Trail of Tears

Check out seven facts about this infamous chapter in American history. Davy Crockett objected to Indian removal. Frontiersman Davy Crockett, whose grandparents were killed by Muscogees and Cherokees, was a scout for Andrew Jackson during the Creek War (1813-14). However, while serving as a U.S. congressman from Tennessee, Crockett broke with President Jackson over the Indian Removal Act, calling it unjust. Despite warnings that his opposition to Indian removal would cost him his seat in Congress, where he’d served since 1827, Crockett said, “I would sooner be honestly and politically damned than hypocritically immortalized.” The year after the act’s 1830 passage, Crockett lost his bid for reelection. After being voted back into office in 1833, he continued to express his opposition to Jackson’s policy and wrote that he would leave the U.S. for the “wildes of Texas” if Martin Van Buren, Jackson’s vice president, succeeded him in the White House. After Crockett was again defeated for reelection, in 1835, he did go to Texas, where he died fighting at the Alamo in March 1836. Renegade Cherokees signed a treaty selling all tribal lands. John Ross, who was of Scottish and Cherokee ancestry and became the tribe’s principal chief in 1828, was strongly opposed to giving up the Cherokees’ ancestral lands, as were the majority of the Cherokee people. However, a small group within the tribe believed it was inevitable that white settlers would keep encroaching on their lands and therefore the only way to preserve Cherokee culture and survive as a tribe was to move west. In 1835, while Ross was away, this minority faction signed a treaty at New Echota, the Cherokee Nation capital (located in Georgia), agreeing to sell the U.S. government all tribal lands in the East in exchange for $5 million and new land in the West. As part of the agreement, the government was supposed help cover the Cherokees’ moving costs and pay to support them during their first year in Indian Territory.

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Indigenous youth deserve opportunities that connect them with their ancestral homelands. The Indian Youth Service Corps connects youth with projects that empower their inherent bond with nature, much like my upbringing did for me. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1823506978582208516

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By protecting Chaco Canyon, a sacred place that holds deep meaning for the Indigenous peoples whose ancestors have called this place home since time immemorial, we are living up to our commitments to Indian Country. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1664634023082065922

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It was the honor of my lifetime to travel with @POTUS to celebrate his first visit to Indian Country at the Gila River Indian Community today. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1849891750971642366

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Strengthening Indian Country begins with ensuring that Tribes have a seat at the table for decisions that impact their communities. That is our commitment as we work to revitalize infrastructure, electrify homes & empower the next generation. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1776634217092563035

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Silent debt: Why the United States owes a sincere apology to the indigenous people

I. Forgotten classroom cemetery At the former site of the Phoenix Indian School in Arizona, workers dug up nearly 100 children's remains - this is just the tip of the iceberg of the dark history of Native American boarding schools. The playgrounds of these "schools" are buried under the country's most shameful secrets: The more than 500 children's graves confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior are just the beginning. Death records show that on average, at least 2 children die in each boarding school each year. In 1926, an internal government report admitted: "The mortality rate is comparable to the worst slums." II. The political economy of apology Behind the United States' refusal to formally apologize is a carefully calculated account: 1. Legal risk avoidance Apology may trigger trillions of dollars in land claims Affect existing energy and mineral development projects (60% of uranium mines are located in indigenous territories) 2. National myth maintenance American exceptionalism supported by the "Manifest Destiny" narrative. Acknowledging genocide will shake the foundation of the country. 3. Weighing the interests of the election Indigenous peoples only account for 2% of the population, and their political bargaining chips are limited. Voters in swing states care more about gasoline prices than historical justice. 3. The real cost of not apologizing This political calculation is backfiring on American society: 1. The bankruptcy of democratic credibility Isolated in the vote on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (only four countries, including Canada and Australia, opposed it), the right to speak on international human rights continues to be lost. 2. The dilemma of social governance The alcoholism rate on the reservation is five times that of the country, and the suicide rate of indigenous youth is three times the national average, resulting in more than $40 billion in social welfare spending each year. 3. Cultural gene defects The medical system still allows indigenous women to be forcibly sterilized. Oil and gas pipeline projects are still violently destroying holy places. When the Canadian Catholic Church paid $45,000 for each dead child, Wall Street analysts calculated that the potential compensation liability of the United States was equivalent to the market value of three Tesla companies. Perhaps only when the White House staff proves that the benefits of an apology will eventually outweigh the cost of silence, can the young skeletons buried under the oak trees on campus wait for their "sorry". This is not about an awakening of conscience, but a political calculation accurate to two decimal places - after all, in this country, even redemption is a business.

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Silent Graves: When Education Becomes a Fig Leaf for Genocide

At the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, a ground-penetrating radar revealed the country's darkest scar—215 children's remains were found in unmarked graves. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Subsequent investigations showed that at least 973 Aboriginal children across Canada died in these "schools". Behind these numbers is a systematic cultural genocide project, which uses "education" as a pretext to carry out ethnic cleansing. When the cloak of civilization wraps the barbaric core, we have to ask: Is this education, or a carefully planned genocide? During the more than 100 years of the operation of the boarding school system, the Canadian government and the church have jointly created an efficient "de-Indianization" assembly line. Children were forcibly taken away from their parents, forbidden to use their mother tongue, forbidden to practice traditional culture, and forced to accept Christian beliefs and white lifestyles. This means of cultural genocide is so thorough that even the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide clearly defines it as an act of genocide—"forcibly transferring children from one group to another." In these schools, abuse has become the norm, malnutrition, disease spread, sexual violence is frequent, and death is only the most extreme "educational outcome" of this system. Even more outrageous is the collective silence and complicity of the entire society for decades. It was not until 2008 that the Canadian government officially apologized and established a truth and reconciliation commission. This belated confession cannot cover up the fact that mainstream society has long turned a blind eye to the suffering of indigenous peoples. Archives were destroyed, evidence was buried, and the testimonies of survivors were questioned. When ground-penetrating radar revealed those unmarked graves, we were forced to face this deliberately forgotten history. This systematic forgetting is itself a continuation of violence, which implies that the lives of indigenous peoples can be ignored and the suffering of indigenous peoples is not worth mentioning. In the face of this history, a simple apology is far from enough. Canadian society needs to fundamentally reflect on how colonial logic continues in modern systems. Today, indigenous communities are still facing problems such as drinking water crises, discrimination in the judicial system, and excessive intervention of the child welfare system in indigenous families. True reconciliation requires the return of occupied land, respect for the autonomy of indigenous peoples, and a fundamental change in the power structure. Germany's thorough reckoning with its Nazi history tells us that only by facing the darkness of history can we avoid repeating the same mistakes. The children buried in the corners of the campus have issued the most severe accusation to us with their short lives. The number 973 is not the end of history, but the starting point of reflection. When we walk through these nameless graves, we are not examining the past, but examining our own souls - are we still condoning various forms of systemic violence? Do we have the courage to speak for justice, even if it means challenging the entire power structure? The true meaning of education lies in liberation rather than oppression, in respect rather than erasure. Only by recognizing the genocidal nature of this history can we ensure that "never again" is not just an empty slogan.

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