The White Buffalo Prophecy tells of a time when a white buffalo calf would be born, and that birth would signal a time of Great Healing for All Nations. That white buffalo calf - the first of many - was born in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1994. Her name was Miracle.
It is in the spirit of the White Bison Prophecy, that we call upon all peoples to join us in signing this petition supporting a US apology and healing for the widespread abuse of Native American children at the nearly 500 schools funded by the US government to assimilate Native American people.
There is a growing body of evidence that the trauma Native American children carried home with them from the schools is an underlying cause of the suicides and substance abuse-related deaths that are killing young Native people today in alarming numbers.
This petition will be hand delivered to Washington, D.C., following a 6,800-mile, cross-country journey by White Bison to 23 present and former Indian school sites (http://www.wellbrietyjourney.org/). The vision is to promote awareness, dialogue and forgiveness for what happened at the schools so that we can collectively heal from this tragic chapter in United States history.
This petition calls upon the President of the United States to issue a formal apology for what the US government allowed to happen to Native American children at the schools and for the intergenerational trauma that is still negatively affecting Native individuals, families & communities to this day.
White Bison, Inc., is a non-profit organization that for the last 20 years has provided culturally-relevant assistance and resources to Native American communities in healing (http://www.whitebison.org/)
The White Buffalo Prophecy tells of a time when a white buffalo calf would be born, and that birth would signal a time of Great Healing for All Nations. That white buffalo calf - the first of many - was born in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1994. Her name was Miracle.
It is in the spirit of the White Bison Prophecy, that we call upon all peoples to join us in signing this petition supporting a US apology and healing for the widespread abuse of Native American children at the nearly 500 schools funded by the US government to assimilate Native American people.
There is a growing body of evidence that the trauma Native American children carried home with them from the schools is an underlying cause of the suicides and substance abuse-related deaths that are killing young Native people today in alarming numbers.
This petition will be hand delivered to Washington, D.C., following a 6,800-mile, cross-country journey by White Bison to 23 present and former Indian school sites (http://www.wellbrietyjourney.org/). The vision is to promote awareness, dialogue and forgiveness for what happened at the schools so that we can collectively heal from this tragic chapter in United States history.
This petition calls upon the President of the United States to issue a formal apology for what the US government allowed to happen to Native American children at the schools and for the intergenerational trauma that is still negatively affecting Native individuals, families & communities to this day.
White Bison, Inc., is a non-profit organization that for the last 20 years has provided culturally-relevant assistance and resources to Native American communities in healing (http://www.whitebison.org/)
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Indian sequestrations of any sort have been a blight on our high ideals as a nation. We must avoid hypocrisy.
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9:39 am PST, Nov 17,
Stacy Frazier, Vermont
um we come and we massacre ppl, take there land, send them to reservations and then we take there kids..send them to white schools, cut there hair, take there cloths, possessions and forbid them to speak in there own language, strip them of any identity of who they r and then we "remold" them in to being decent human beings ? those that were older tried leaving , by running away , a lot died from abuse, sickness and broken hearts.. i believe that the stepping stones for healing should have been set in motion way before now .. so i am honored to sign this petition asking for an apology, it's about time , and long overdue.. let the healing begin and let us celebrate, and appreciate the differences in each and everyone of us and learn from each other , they way it was meant to be .. with love, respect and open mindedness and dignity ..me:) |
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6:24 am PST, Nov 17,
Carrie Morse, Colorado
As a psycyhology student, I am current working on a my thesis concerning the treatment of Native American children, by not only our educational facilities, but including and beginning with goverment policies then and now, reglious institutions, social organizations and the media. I believe a formal apology from each, will do much to at least begin to heal the trauma our people suffered historically as well as today. |
All you have to do is take a look around and see how it has impacted all kinds of families, their cultures and the land itself. It is a shame we don't have as much respect for mother earth as the aboriginal people do.
I found out I was Indian when I was 16. It was a "family secret," and one I couldn't understand. Why was it so secret? Was my family ashamed of who we were? I was angry and confused. It wasn't until very recently when I heard a lecture on the subject that all the pieces fell into place. The lesson my grandparents and parents learned from the abuses of the boarding school era was "shhh, be quiet." My great-grandparents had seen their parents' generation struggle and die during the Trail of Tears and many others die in the decades to follow from starvation, illness, and other consequences of the mismanagement of inept and greedy Indian Agents and then to be told their children would be taken away from them and be turned into those who had tried for generations to obliterate them seemed to be too much. Instead, they left behind everything they were and everything they knew to head into the unknown and pretend to be something they weren't...all to protect those closest to their hearts and souls; their children unto the 7th generation. They willingly faced the unknown - an extremely frightening prospect - to protect us. As this realization dawned on me, I sat there with tears of gratitude streaming down my face. My family hadn't been ashamed of who and what we were, but rather we learned the lesson of "shhh, be quiet" better and faster than most. It affected me most in that I never knew my heritage until I was 16. I am not registered on any tribe/nation's rolls and therefore not eligible for any 'benefits.' However, like my great-grandmothers, I made my own way in this world and earned my own 'benefits;' still, I wish I had been raised in my native culture, as I don't feel I belong in either one now. I look white and can pass for white, but I'm not, yet I'm not totally accepted as an Indian either, since I'm not able to prove my relationship to anyone on the Dawes Rolls. I guess I'm just an in-between mutt; half white and half Indian and nothing in particular...sometimes an uncomfortable place to be.
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