Boarding schools severed whole generations from their ceremonial language and songs

Evidence

I knew that in the long-ago times our people raised their thanks in morning songs, in prayer, and the offering of sacred tobacco. But at that time in our family history we didn’t have sacred tobacco and we didn’t know the songs—they’d been taken away from my grandfather at the doors of the boarding school. But history moves in a circle and here we were, the next generation, back to the loon-filled lakes of our ancestors, back to canoes. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 125

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The boarding-school seizure of sacred tobacco and songs is direct causal evidence for the settler-colonial disruption thread; supports the land-and-knowledge loss argument across Eco-Justice and Legal Systems courses.
• XREF: Resonates with the settlement/removal of ch3 and with the deculturalizing of Indigenous peoples central to the polyad’s settler-colonial critique; also echoes the ‘affective ties as empire’s marrow’ theme from Along the Archival Grain. — connects to: Boarding schools aimed to extinguish native culture by manufacturing consumer desires — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1198; Boarding school coercion directly caused an entire language’s near extinction — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 181; Boarding school language bans nearly erased three hundred and fifty Indigenous American tongues — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 178 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Boarding school coercion directly caused an entire language’s near extinction #corroborates (0.92) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 181
• Boarding school language bans nearly erased three hundred and fifty Indigenous American tongues #corroborates (0.90) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 178
• Stolen Generations institutions routinely punished children for speaking Aboriginal languages #corroborates (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 5312
• Canada’s residential schools explicitly pursued cultural erasure for over a century #corroborates (0.82) — , The Rod and the Child, 7105
• Residential schools functioned as land theft by removing Indigenous children #expands (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 849
• Unwritten oral traditions can be destroyed more totally than literate cultures #expands (0.78) — , The Rod and the Child, 1479
• School curricula encode racial hierarchies that erase children of Color’s culture. #expands (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 260
• Western education severed knowledge from its narrative context, making disciplines domains of status. #expands (0.72) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1603