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U.S., Canadian Haudenosaunee boarding school survivors seek justice for their abuse


WXXI s Noelle E.C. Evans reports
“Physical beatings were a matter of course. Food deprivation occurred almost all the time. People ask me, ‘What was your overall feeling of this place?’ And I say, ‘Well, it was hunger, ” said Doug George, whose Akwasasne Mohawk name is Kanentiio.
Kanentiio, whose name means “handsome pine,” describes life at an Indian boarding school, also known as a residential school, in the 1960s. 
“The intent was to extinguish us as Aboriginal people and destroy whatever sense of self-worth we had, and I can say that they succeeded to a large degree,” Kanentiio said. “They killed our spirit. They killed us.” ....

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