"They always go for our babies." -Emily Edenshaw, President & CEO at Alaska Native Heritage Center
He admitted that this was genocide. -Chief Bill Erasmus
Ground zero
The boarding school practice started in Alaska in 1879, 12 years after the USA purchased the Arctic state from Russia without consulting the indigenous population.
Maybe that is also where the healing has to start.
"Alaska may be ground zero for all of this. But ground zero can also be the place of healing for indigenous peoples from all over the world," Jacuk concludes.
In 2015 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded what happened was "cultural genocide". It identified more than 3,000 children who died from disease due to overcrowding, malnutrition, and poor sanitation or died after being abused or trying to run away.
Most schools had their own cemeteries, and sometimes when children died, their parents were never informed.
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