My Grandmother Survived A Native American Boarding School
2023 ж. 19 Қыр.
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Eden recounts her Great Great Grandmother’s life, her attendance at a Native American Boarding School and its impact, while examining the ripple effect of generational trauma on her family.
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My grandmother was Mohawk of the St Regis Mohawk nation and she was sent to Thomas Indian School at age 10 and survived until she graduated and went to a hospital run by nuns to become a nurse. The fact that she made it out alive was a miracle! And it’s my grandmother! My father’s mother. This history is RECENT.
My Great grandma’s mom went to a boarding school. I don’t know much about her tho
@@Kiki_Fox I was very fortunate to have my grandma in my life until I was in my late teens, but she never spoke about her heritage, the school.. we didn’t know any of it until her passing and we were sorting all her papers. We found a ton of paperwork from the school.. her admission forms, some letters or correspondences.. it was very shocking. Part of me wishes we knew so she could have shared her experience, while the other part of me understands why she buried it deep and never spoke of the pain. Thomas Indian School has a reputation as one of the worst, if not the worst, in the country. I tried to read a book about it but only made it a few pages in before I had to stop. The stories from these schools are just horrific.
Dang
@@SnuggieMaple Its a shame they can't see their being used.
Have faith in Jesus alone to be saved.
My Chippewa grandpa was forced into boarding school. When he’d get drunk he’d yell about his American name not being his true name. Truly sad, but I’m dedicated to finding out his true name and identity not his white washed one.
Truly sad to get drunk and be bitter. No offense, but it's just a name. He could have made up a new name for himself... Edit: I didn't see you mentioned identity as well. And that's more than a name, sorry to come off a jerk, but alcohol just fuels anger, and it especially hits marginalized n poor communities the hardest. Good luck with finding out more about his life
@@patmandew22When you have had your beliefs, way of life, name, family ripped away from you, forced on reservations then you can comment on the fire water the white people introduced to our relatives.
Similar here. My grandmother was an alcoholic who would only tell small details about her story when she was drunk. She had a true name, so did my great uncle, but none of us living family members know them.
Have faith in Jesus alone to be saved.
Mine did too. She refused to speak about it. The only thing she ever mentioned was that she would count to ten in our language to make sure she didn’t forget it. They had taken so much from her that that was all she had left. Thank you for sharing your grandmothers story.
What did "they take from her"? Yeah didnt think so.
@@debiddoguranto4180 I don’t need to prove her pain and the pain of the thousands of children who were forced into those schools. Not to mention all the children buried in mass graves. They were denied their homes and families. They were denied basic human rights, just because they were native. I wouldn’t expect you to understand, but our pain is real. The generational trauma is real. The bodies that they have already discovered are real. Whether your ignorance and hatred wants to believe it.
@@debiddoguranto4180They took away this commenter's grandmother's culture to the point where the only thing she had was being able to count to 10 in her native language that she had to HIDE otherwise if the school found out that would've been taken away too. In short the school stripped her of her culture.
@@arirenzi-surprenant6915 How come you guys can never point to someone who didn't survive one of these schools?
@@bernooski5128 What does this even mean?
My friends mom had scars on her hands/fingers from wooden rulers. She would get smacked for not speaking english.
My Choctaw great grandfather was sent to a residential school as a child. Unfortunately he died before I was born. I'll never get to know his story from him, but today I remember what he went through. I know he had a white step father and it sounded like he only wanted his biological children present so Sam, my great grandfather, and WM, his brother, were sent away. He also eventually moved to California. I may have never known him, but I am proud of him. He raised three children who were so proud of being Choctaw, despite what the school wanted to strip from him. His grand children were proud of being Choctaw (my uncle even went to work for the nation for a season). Today I, his great granddaughter, have incorporated my Choctaw heritage in my life. I own full regalia, go to gatherings and pow wows, have met my chief many times, been back to the reservation, walked on the ancestral lands in Mississippi, and had a Choctaw wedding ceremony. I will never forget what happened to him and even before with the Trail of Tears. My five year old wore orange today too and these stories will stay with her as well. If I have my way, this family will never forget.
My family and I are 100% Navajo, from the Four Corners in New Mexico. Growing up There was tough, rare to find decent Medical, Dental Care and education. It tends to traumatize u at a young age. Members of my own family including my husband grew up in the dormitory. It is a normal way of life. Even today there are children who live in dormitories and go to school on the Navajo Reservation and off the Rez. When i tell others these days they are shocked! Yes there are kids (Kindergarten to Seniors in HS) live in dorms. When non natives are shocked that many youngsters don’t speak our language anymore they are surprised. “What why! Don’t u speak Navajo”. There r times we get tired of the same questions, answering “because my grandparents, parents were punished & beaten, when they spoke their own language. They were told to speak English and only English!” This included cutting their long black hair! Making them wear “white man clothes”. So next time, please think about this before u ask.
I had a friend two years ago. He had long black hair and goldish brown skin. I wondered why he had long hair cause he never told me. I learned why last year.
I’ve always been told dzilth na o dith hle is like a charter school. They instruct children in the Navajo language but I’ve always wondered to what extent that’s true. It’s still a BIA school! How much oversight do parents have? I don’t think the concept of board schools in rural areas is objectively wrong but how can something new and done well come from the structures and institutions of the BIA system?
This exactly, the only bit of our language my grandmother could still remember was to count to ten. That was it. She had a true name but she either didn’t remember it or refused to tell us. I wish people would understand this when asking what they think are just normal questions
This young woman is so well spoken. I think it took a lot of courage for her to share her story. Thank you for doing so.
Its not even her story. Its her making up nonsense about her family that she didn't experience, and telling everyone else how to feel.
it’s her grandmothers story what? lmao i can’t stand people who think they went through the trauma when in reality it was their ancestors, i would never take pride and act affected by what my ancestors did because i didn’t do anything they did, anything bad they did, anything good they did, lol shits so odd and disrespectful you would take your ancestors serious trauma as your own and use it for clout
My great grandfather was sent to one. He died before I was born and there are so many things I wonder about his life. I'll be wearing an orange shirt next week for him.
I’m so sorry to hear this.
I’m part Choctaw and Blackfeet and had no clue until a few years ago and two weeks ago, respectively. I am also related to Malcolm X and I wish I had grown up knowing that, especially knowing now that I grew up in Dr. Betty Shabbazz’s neighborhood. I just wish I could have known, but my paternal grandmother feels it’s a negligible amount. My maternal grandmother seems to have been ashamed of our connection and was in denial about it. Maybe it was too painful for her, I guess.
Malcom X knew the real enemy, the White liberal. Look it up.
you wish you knew you were related to a racist african american who believed in segregation? okay? lol odd person to wanna be related too, average buzzfeed fan though
My grandfather escaped residential school. Twice.
"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky" - Ojibwe saying
Great job buzzedfeed for bring awarness
I was finding this really fascinating and enjoying it immensely, until I got to the text on the screen. If you made it any smaller I don't think even ANTS would be able to read it!! So I lost that portion of the story &I have no idea how important, or unimportant, it might have been, but it's really frustrating to know that I've missed out on something to do with his story simply because the text was too small to read! It didn't help that the text didn't remain on the screen long enough for me to even pause the video so I could get my glasses to try and read it. Please try to keep in mind that many of your viewers have difficulty with their eyes and would appreciate large enough text to read on the screen!
Are you old or visually impaired? I’m young but visually impaired.
Agreed 100%!
if you mean the subtitles.... you can go into the settings to adjust the font size
Thank you for speaking your family’s trauma and history. God bless your family and the generations that come. Ignore the ignorant comments, they don’t deserve your energy
Read this you racist, ponder whats to come in the USA.
So you don't care that this blood libel has led to 85 churches across Canada being set on fire?
No
Thank you so much for bringing this to light BU. It can never be told enough. 😢
My dad, aunties and uncles grandparents on mom and dad’s side along with my cousin all are survivors of residential school. My sister is a day school survivor. 1980’s
None of this seems unsolved wow it really is falling off after Ryan and Shane left
My father along with all my uncles n aunties were un residential school
My grandma survived residential day school. My boyfriends parents both survived residential school.
So then whats the problem?
Thank you for sharing your family story. 😢
OK, but how is this Unsolved??
Thank you for sharing your story. Your really pretty by the way! I have loved reading and hearing about Indians since I was a child, now that I'm older I cant help but think the natural more down to earth life was way better that the peaceful people lived, not the war tribes. Especially compared to current history, big pharma, constant drama, big sports, Kardashians and cellphone and video game zombies we live with now. The history was horrific what the government did to everyone but most people forget how they unalived nearly all the buffalos just to force them off the land for white settlers. My dad and I have fought so many times whenever we discuss the topic, its a hot topic that makes him very angry. He cant stand hearing about the history and thinks I should just leave it in the past where it belongs, he literally has no culture and I miss not having a tribe to belong to😓. My family is very dysfunctional. We only see each other every 10 years or more. My dad and I dont talk anymore bc of so many things, we dont get along.
This is awesome journalism, aho
Almost spooky seasons
Given the dementia, how do you know that this story is true? Maybe it was a dream she had or a story she read in a book or newspaper, or something from a movie or something she was told about someone else and she just got confused…? Honest curiosity, not saying it’s not true or trying to be being mean…
My grandma was told her social security that the government had given her around ww2 didn't exist. She died in the hospital because they couldn't give her any medical help without insurance that no one could possibly give her. We are Quapaw.
How was she in a hospital without insurance if no one would help her?
Sounds like we need to bring them back honestly it was a mistake to stop using them
Born and raised in Ardmore Oklahoma and there is way more similar stories like hers that are known to this day. Dark history unfortunately
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what’s this channel even ab anymore
My mom and grandma were in boarding schools. My grandma could speak inupiaq but my mom could understand but not speak it.
I'm sorry but she's really pretty and i recognize I have nothing to contribute to the conversation by saying that but it's certainly true
Actually refeshingly good buzzfeed content. Actual journalism
This isnt journalism its racist lies and victimhood glamorizing
Did they mention that this blood libel has led to 85 churches being set on fire?
Same here in Canada, I'm not native but I feel for the trauma. My mother's father came from a black family imon the east coast most likely descended from escaped slaves from the US and he and my grandmother who is white went through hell together.
Stop lying
i wonder what shane thinks after us govt came out with aliens and mexico
Damn this channel fell off without Ryan and Shane
I never like Ryan or Shane i find them annoying.
Oof only 21k views in 12 days
Have faith in Jesus alone to be saved. He is coming back soon.
❤Much love to you guys❤
I know this woman contains multitudes and I'm not dismissing any of that when I state this: But she is Insanely Beautiful.
Thanks man, I was hoping someone would mention how hot she is.
Hmmm couldve been more in depth. These "schools" were also known as residential schools.
She was sharing her family's story - not producing a documentary on these "schools". A documentary on the "schools" would be cool.
@@lemoniefish So literal heresay... great journalism
Boarding schools in the US, residential schools in Canada
This is an important history that needs to be told despite what the WS and their ignorant children say. Thry feel bad bc their plumderers of life and they dont want to be reminded abt how wicked and evil their ancestors are.
You better worry about now, you are making more people hate you now because you keep crying about the "sins of the fathers". How about just live your life and stop blaming the past for you problems.
@@debiddoguranto4180how about you remember the lesson your parents (should have) taught you and if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all? This comment from you was unnecessary.
@@lemoniefish Then stop being racists against White people.
It’s not because this is irrelevant and not needed history and nothing these people went there is the worst in history get over it
@@lemoniefishyou should take that advice you are the problem with modern society
So did like basically everyone. lol
Dang
My dad survived me.
Change the title to be honest
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Some of the ignorant comments under this video are EXACTLY why these stories need to be told. Europeans came in and took EVERYTHING from indigenous people who were already here. The effort to erase and deny it is appalling. There are those who try to cover it up, but it happened and we should learn from it.
The natives were shitting in streams and eating each other. They don't like civilization, give our technology back.
@@zsedcftglkjhyou must be white cuz ain’t no way
@@zsedcftglkjhwhat does shitting on streams have to do with anything
@@zsedcftglkjhyou are the problem in this world bruh I hate colonizers
@@zsedcftglkjhthey don’t like civilization? I know you not talking cuz I know you chronically online rotting away eating cheeto puffs ngl if you were educated then I would be like okkk you know how civilization works but I don’t think you do you need to be quiet
I can feel negative comments coming in already istg-
Same. They didn’t care about us natives then and don’t now. They’ve tried to kill the native before yet here we are.
Youre right niggarfagit
Because they are racist lies
plz bring back those old days
Hmmm, maybe it's not a bad idea to have children care for their school building and grounds. Not back breaking work, but chores like weeding, washing walls, wiping tables, picking up and emptying trash, etc. If kids cared for the property, they would "care" for the property, help at home and not be baffled as adults.
i legitimately thought she was an AI wtf
😂😂😂
Where is true crime series where is supernatural series 😒 please highlight this comment if u are waiting for the same.
Which ones?
They moved to their own channel called Watcher
She looks like she was generated through and AI
I thought so too thank god i am not the only 1... so weird
I wouldn't put it past BuzzFeed 😂
BuzzFeed more like Buzzoverdramatic PCBSfeed
Doll eyes fr
It's sad to see how hard this show fell off after Shane, Ryan and co jumped ship to watcher... What a metoric rise and what an extreme and sadenning fall I will only think good things about Buzzfeed Unsolved and I used to watch every episode, but this is a massive fall from grace... It is a shame
It fell off because the rest of their content is dogshit which is why theyre relying on these pity stories now
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My thumbs up is in regards to the loss of Ryan and Shane only. This video is great and an absolute step up from the decline in content.
This was a fantastic video. Stop being so petty and appreciate this education.
@@lemoniefish No it's not... it's a continuation of the disgraceful and disgusting blood libel about Canadian residential schools that is constantly discredited
I thought this was AI 😮
I was forced to go to school…….😂
You need to research about residential school this is not a regular school like the ones that you and me were forced to go buddy
@@teatears2086you need to read a book residential schools are not that bad
Yeah, the only sane thing she brought up in all this rambling was the narcissism that clearly must run in the family. SHE had to TELL others theyre being manipulated. SHE DECIDED her grandmother was abú$3d. Its all up to her. Apparently. 🙄 Ooor she just didn't like her dad, and is a soft brat whos never worked for anything, so she sees a school that also has children work (barely) as all @bú$3... Don't get me wrong, PLENTY of those schools had REAL @buß3 going on, but its VERY OBVIOUS this is just BUZZFEED WANTING someone to say "generational trauma" 43 times.
Shouldn't have lost then.
This is very clickbaity most of this is more on family drama and less about the schools and mistreatment of native Americans
wtf is this........ (N)
Is this like those "mass graves" that never existed in Canada? Survived what? That's like saying "I survived pouring a glass of water." True...but a stretch of the word.
Why does she look like an anime character 😅
American problems be like
Was it not white europeans committing crimes against non white people for the 1 millionth time? This happens to more than just non white people in america. A global problem actually.
Wrong
I'm traumatized because my grandma went to boarding school? You look like you are doing pretty well, calm down.
Maybe you should listen to what she's saying, what someone else is saying about their life experience, for once in your life.
Boiling it down to "went to boarding school" really shows how (un)educated you are on the topic
@@RealTalkXD i dont think she shares the same life experience of her grandmother
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@@RealTalkXD It's not her life experience. She even said her Grandma "didn't know" the trauma she went through. How many native Americans got stuck on the reservation and never left. This girl talking is like 1/16th Native American, all of her family has Anglicized names.
Views have been nonexistent since the ghoul brothers been gone
i smell CAP
Everybody survived, it was all a big lie
What’s a lie?
@@teatears2086BuzzFeed
@@teatears2086natives
So
Gimme a break.
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Yea, there’s nothing different going on here at all. This is normal.
Normal ☠️ you need to do ur research on this topic you need to know history
@@teatears2086 learn sarcasm 🤡
@@teatears2086yea it’s true nothing these groups went threw is the worst in history we could have done what Argentina did
Seems as credible as the mass graves turned out to be 😂
I’m so proud of my Indian heritage…. By marrying a white guy 😂😂😂
Don't remember asking
Did we ask?
Broski has never heard of empathy💀💀💀
I did
Name checks out. Clearly someone did.
Who's "we"?
Who exactly is "we?" People with a brain tend to want to learn about history bud, idiots are the only ones that want to whitewash it.
Nope don’t care.
I'm at that point too. An entire generation of my family were sent to residential schools but they got on with their lives and never cried about it like the people who make these videos. FFS, her grandmother went to a school, not her.
@@JDoe-gf5ozthey got on with their lives because they accepted life is hard but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t traumatizing I think you’re lost brother it doesn’t hurt to research your heritage history you can move on but never forget the hardships that your ancestors went thru it’s the strength that is so important to understand
@@teatears2086no that’s the problem nothing there ancestors went threw is the worst in history stop crying about it literally no other country does this
Wow a school where they make you do stuff than just to lay around lazily. A school that prepares you for real life. Making food, cleaning, sewing and gardening. Couldnt imagine what a nightmare that would've been. If only the people tortured by Nazis would know what u went through!
Dude, those residential schools were torturing children. They beat them, raped them, killed them. Hitler got the ideas for what he did from what the Americans did to the Native Americans. What is wrong with you?
Do you know what happened to these people? They were forced in these schools and denied human rights. Educate yourself. Just because someone else is in more pain doesn’t make their pain less valid
They taken from their families without consent. Beaten, tortured and killed. Horrifically. They were children
Hitler and the Nazis (who toured the U.S.) were directly inspired by the "concentration camps" the U.S. put indigenous peoples in.
@@straberryshinigami15g97technically all children are forced into schools and denied human rights it's illegal to not educate your children
This young woman is so well spoken. I think it took a lot of courage for her to share her story. Thank you for doing so.
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