WICHITA NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, KANSAS

" redskins"
A Sentence of Death

"The Shame of Public School Education" a photo essay

"THEY TOOK EVERYTHING THEY COULD AND NEVER STOPPED"

There were no dead bodies to strip of their clothing on the day
the men below visited the Sioux.
The hungry and the desperate will have to rent their religious symbols to anyone in the face of starvation and genocide.

the choice: confinement and hunger on the reservation, or death

The little children had to learn how to "do the right thing" to survive. They had to learn to make the powerful white man happy. They must do this or feel the sting of the stick and go hungry. This child, like all the other children will be taken from her family at age 6 and spend the majority of the next 10 years of her life in a boarding school with out love of parents, brothers & sisters at her side. When she speaks her own language she will receive a beating.

NO FOOD

Confinement to reservations meant all the women waited in line for the infrequent rations at the agency while government agents stole food, blankets, everything... because they could get away with it.

 

ALL CHILDREN WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND SENT AWAY
They didn't know their mothers, fathers, brothers or sisters

Christian boarding schools for Indian children.
Their religion against the law.
They were called redskins and beaten for practicing the faith of their own parents.

This cruelty by Christian Mission schools continued through the 1970's in the United States of America because it remained against the law to practice Indian religion.

	In late July, 1997, the United States Department of State at the direction of the Congress released a report on the persecution of Christians outside the country.
Pointing a finger at crimes in China and Saudi Arabia, four more fingers in the US Government's fist pointed back in silence, calling for HYPOCRITES to examine the history of genocide, religious hatred and death forced upon Native Americans in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"
	Is the Native American your mascot too?

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"COUNTING DEAD CHILDREN"

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