People of the West - Season 1 Episode 6 Boarding Schools
1970-01-01
48 minutes.
Season - Episode
1
Season 1 Jan 01, 1970
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1 - 1First Contact Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 2Spanish Missions Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 3Gold Rush Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 4Genocide Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 5Reservations Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 6Boarding Schools Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 7The American Dream Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 8Red Power Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 9Gaming Jan 01, 1970 -
1 - 10The Next Generation Jan 01, 1970
Overview
When a young Paiute boy cuts his hair in anger, his grandmother relives her own trauma as a survivor of the Sherman Indian Boarding School. In flashback, teenage Kaiba and her cousin Wahiti are torn from their families and forced into a system built to erase their culture. Hair is shorn, names are changed, and language forbidden as Richard Pratt’s doctrine—“Kill the Indian, save the man”—takes hold across California. Through Kaiba’s defiance and remembrance, a legacy of survival endures, revealing how assimilation tried—and failed—to silence Native identity.
Year 1970
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