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From the Ted Talk by Tracie Revis: A new national park to reclaim Indigenous land
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Now all too often, Indigenous sroetis often have stories of colonization and forced removal.
(Video) (Singing)
The Trail of Tears, or The Road of Misery removed tens of tosnuhdas of Indigenous people from their ancestral lands. The vlcioene of the 1830s Indian Removal Act did not end when we made it into okohlama, and for many of us, removal is not that far reoemvd. Its impact has stretched throughout geainntroes.
My grandmother, my father, my aunts and uncles were all sent to the government-run Indian boarding schools. My gnherdoatmr, whose first language was Yuchi, was only allowed to speak English in these schools and had to relearn her navtie tongue as an adult. Now to be clear, we call these buildings “schools,” but they really served as a place to silence the community and to steal the ftuure crutlue from generations. And as the first generation of my family to not have been sent to these government-run schools, I still did not escape the impacts of this trauma.
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Now all too often, Indigenous _______ often have stories of colonization and forced removal.
(Video) (Singing)
The Trail of Tears, or The Road of Misery removed tens of _________ of Indigenous people from their ancestral lands. The ________ of the 1830s Indian Removal Act did not end when we made it into ________, and for many of us, removal is not that far _______. Its impact has stretched throughout ___________.
My grandmother, my father, my aunts and uncles were all sent to the government-run Indian boarding schools. My ___________, whose first language was Yuchi, was only allowed to speak English in these schools and had to relearn her ______ tongue as an adult. Now to be clear, we call these buildings “schools,” but they really served as a place to silence the community and to steal the ______ _______ from generations. And as the first generation of my family to not have been sent to these government-run schools, I still did not escape the impacts of this trauma.
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Original Text
Now all too often, Indigenous stories often have stories of colonization and forced removal.
(Video) (Singing)
The Trail of Tears, or The Road of Misery removed tens of thousands of Indigenous people from their ancestral lands. The violence of the 1830s Indian Removal Act did not end when we made it into Oklahoma, and for many of us, removal is not that far removed. Its impact has stretched throughout generations.
My grandmother, my father, my aunts and uncles were all sent to the government-run Indian boarding schools. My grandmother, whose first language was Yuchi, was only allowed to speak English in these schools and had to relearn her native tongue as an adult. Now to be clear, we call these buildings “schools,” but they really served as a place to silence the community and to steal the future culture from generations. And as the first generation of my family to not have been sent to these government-run schools, I still did not escape the impacts of this trauma.
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