Our Spirits Don't Speak English. Native American Documentary.

Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School is a Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools. This DVD produced by Rich-Heape Films, Inc. uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. This DVD gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a system designed to strip them of their Native American culture, heritage and traditions.

When it began in 1879, the philosophy of the Indian boarding school system was to kill the Indian and save the man, the mission statement of Captain Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until 1904.

Jim Thorpe (Sauk and Fox), the iconic hero survived the boarding school system. Grace Thorpe (Sauk and Fox), his daughter, in her last interview before she passed away on April 4, 2008, discusses boarding school experiences in the new documentary.

The battle against and the victory over the boarding school monster is told by educators, former and current students who were interviewed at Carlisle, Sherman Indian School, Riverside, Calif., Sequoyah High School, Tahlequah, Ok., Anchorage, Alaska and other locations.

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• Our
• Spirits
• Don't
• Speak
• English.
• Native
• American
• Documentary.

[santoshiful]

TRUE. English is foreign IMMIGRANT language. Not satisfied with illegally OCCUPYING the land, like many other places around the world, they seek to pretend to be us or shoe- horn themselves in other peoples culture.

[LittleLeaf1000]

Within the Boarding School institutions 1879- 1970's the idea was to Assimilate the Indigenous into mainstream culture by taking away the Indigenous languages & doing this by taking children from their homes. The language was beaten out of the Indigenous children making them believe their language was bad therefore being Indigenous was bad. The 1st language of the Indigenous was not English; My spirit does not speak English; my spirit continues to be Indigenous and my culture still thrives.

[tarnish]

I am a white american living on the east coast, and my heart and mind feels for this. Its hard to express _properly_ what i feel knowing how generations have gone by, yet native people of america still struggle and recollect the atrocities laid upon them. I, personally, have only pride and repsect for the people that have inhabited my native home ( only 4 generations) for thousands of years. I would love to glimpse what this country looked like nationally before the europeon epidemic. I think

[Pierre6766]

Fuck the white priest who abuse my elders, brain wash them! No more of this shit!!!!!

[roctrev]

...,aaaaaaaaand white people still reign supreme. suck it!

[AnchorageDentist]

Hopefully Larry Echohawk can do some good work.

[99cacahuate]

@MultiRedFan fukkk stpid people that believes in lies ha ha

[MultiRedFan]

@99cacahuate Don't cha be talkin bad bout jesus dawg not cool br0

[99cacahuate]

@LittleLeaf1000 and all this on the name of jesus christ.........SO FUCKKK EUROPEANS RELIGIONS.....FUKKK JESUS......

[RoyalKnightVII]

@gimsybones I'm so confused, I haven't seen this in a while.

We all gotta relax, youtube runs the tensions up!

[gimsybones]

@RoyalKnightVII

Ignorance doesnt deserve a response. Sorry you were to shallow to see the whole picture behind this documentary.

[KrayzayKilla187]

native religions and cultures havent been corrupted by money so they are "uncivilized"..... they fear our free spirits.