I have some unposted links that I will add as I change the face of this blog a little. Here's an excerpt and link to an article on the Boarding School Healing Symposium hosted by the American Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School in May of 2011:
Deeper reconciliation may come from language and cultural restoration, some conference participants said, among them Levina Wilkens, of the Yakama Nation Elder & Language Program, who spoke at length in her Native language to illustrate the alienation children felt who were not allowed to speak their language and who were among strangers.
She said many people don’t know their own tribal history and “you have to go on the Internet to find out who your ancestors are,” urging people to know their land and its history, because “they took our identity.”
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