Your View: A strong case can be made that football survived and thrived because smart, physically gifted Native Americans outlived their stay in a genocidal institution known as the Indian Boarding School in Carlisle, Pa. .
In trying to impose a European American identity on Native American children, the U.S. created a system of cultural genocide targeting all Native Americans.
With the help of the U.S. Army, Ted Ashouwak of Bowdoinham, will repatriate his long-lost great aunt, who was forced into a boarding school in 1901, to her home in Kodiak, Alaska.
With the help of the U.S. Army, Ted Ashouwak of Bowdoinham, will repatriate his long-lost great aunt, who was forced into a boarding school in 1901, to her home in Kodiak, Alaska.