https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

In research for my novel, Long Reach, I discovered to my horror moving testimony about the Residential Boarding School system for First Nation children in Canada, where children were removed from their communities and tortured if they spoke their native languages or maintained native customs. Kill the Indian in the Child was a slogan of that effort. Thus Long Reach featured Sedna, a First Nation healer who was hidden in the wilderness with her grandparents to prevent her being dragged off into a Residential School.

Since then, we have learned that here too in the United States, programs, funded in part by our government from 1819 to 1960, children were separated from families to reside in Boarding Schools where they were denied the use of their tribal names, customs, dress and languages while being treated with hardship and cruelty, ending at times in death. It is gratifying to read that the United States Secretary Deb Haaland, Department of the Interior, initiated the “Road to Healing,” a program of storytelling, shared songs and discussions to alleviate the enduring suffering of Native American survivors of the Boarding School separations.

Thank you Secretary Haaland.