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- It's hard to say exactly. In terms of the schools, although some funding was provided, there were still many issues.
- Like?
- Well the buildings were old for one so there were many maintenance issues. It was also hard for tribes to come together after everything that happened since people were still trying to forget. People were still hurting, and people were still getting sick. Many bad things happened inside those schools that people did not want to relive. In the end many of these schools got shut down especially with not enough funding.
- Now in terms of the people, many families were still suffering.
- Remember how I told you that some people turned to alcohol to forget? Well as they suffered, eventually their own children and family who were around them suffered as well. Sometimes the children would even follow their parents footsteps.
- Maybe trying it will help me forget too.
- This must be normal then.
- Those who got more angry and aggressive also had their family suffer.
- Mending the Sacred Hoops- Violence in Native American communities ( which experience an order of magnitude more violence than their majority white counterparts) have been traced back to the abuse and trauma many children suffered during theireducation.
- Since the schools were so focused on keeping us away from our culture and traditions, many of our families and children also suffered culturally.
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- What is she saying?
- I don't understand her much either. I forgot most of Navajo.
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