Forced Removal of Native American Children From Parents Exposed in 13 Minutes

“A 13 minute documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up in Maine to investigate the forcible removal of Native American children from their homes over many years, debuts today.

For hundreds of years, Federal and state governments wrested Native American children from their parents and placed them in institutions of one kind or another or in the homes of white families in an effort to  “civilize the savage born”.   This practice and policy left many of those children psychologically battered for the rest of their lives.  One Native American woman told Maine's Truth and Reconciliation commissioners that she still has nightmares from the coming of age experience.”

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