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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Two of my aunts and an uncle were carted off to the boarding school at 
Hoopa.  That one was run for awhile by the Shakers.  My uncle had 
appendicitis when he was there.  He was told to stop acting up and trying to 
get attention and that IF he were in pain it was because god was punishing 
him because he was a dirty heathen.  The once a month doctor came through 
and decided the problem was appendicitis and operated on him.  He was then 
carried back to his room, no post op, no bed rails and plopped on the bed 
and left til the next morning.  Coming out of anesthesia, he rolled off the 
bed, burst the sutures and bled to death.  Sonny was 12.

Grampa took my two aunts home and refused to allow them to return to the 
school.  And refused to allow my mother or other uncle to go to the school. 
He was lucky because he worked for the local lumber baron and his son, the 
Carons of Carson house fame.  The Carsons stepped in and the government left 
them alone.

The Carsons also stepped in and got my uncle returned to the family cemetary 
for burial.  The church in Hoopa demanded that he be buried in their 
cemetary so that he could be saved.

My one aunt refused to acknowledge her heritage until the late 70s.  Her 
children didn't know anything about their heritage.  Aunty found the whitest 
white man she could to marry and was quite upset when all her children 
weren't blond and blue eyed.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nshrpoa AT highdesert.com>

> I have been 'in transition' since last June, and will
> finally be settled at - the end of November - in
> Newberry Springs, California (mid-Mojave).
>
> Among the things I've been unpacking, shuffling and
> re-shuffling, etc. in my perhaps-efforts-in-vain to get
> organized, is a bunch of correspondence from-to Daniel
> Peaches (Navajo) - then Representative, AZ. He and I
> were having an ongoing discussion regarding the merits
> of removing Navajo children from the reservation and
> placing them in Mormon-run off-reservation boarding
> schools.
>
> I was dead against it, having the knowledge that the
> Navajo had Their Own Religion, which I didn't think
> should be messed with.
>
> Our communications came to an abrupt end when he wrote
> that he was one of those children (and, of course,
> brainwashed, I thought at the time). I'm sure his
> intentions were the best. I just wish / wished he'd had
> a more pure and simple background to speak from. I mean
> purity and simplicity in the best sense, as based on
> nature, and the religious tenets of the tribe.
>
> Sandy
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Their
> > > culture was deliberately and systematically
> > destroyed.  First by the
> > > missionaries and then by the land grants (wholesale
> > murder) and finally by
> > > the boarding school system put into place by the
> U.S.
> > government.
> >
> > Yes, I have heard of the boarding school thing.
> >
> > Bev
> > --
> > Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm   Sleep well tonight, for
> > somewhere in the
> > ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
> >
> >
> >
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