35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

Trista - June 6, 2019

35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights
Alaska Native tribes depicted on the map. PBS.

9. The US Used Many of the Same Tactics on Alaska Natives

Alaska Native children were sent to boarding schools to become “civilized,” where they were not allowed to wear native clothes, speak their native languages, or engage in any aspects of indigenous culture. Additionally, the diseases that the white settlers brought into Alaska wiped out many of the native peoples. So many people died that bodies were put into mass graves.

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