They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number

http://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/09/they-stripped-us-of-our-clothes-and-assigned-us-a-number/
Date Written:  2020-03-09
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2020
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX24079

How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.