Thus, when Pratt founded off-reservation boarding schools, his rationale was “Kill the Indian in order to save the Man.”17 Essentially, Native peoples could be saved only if they were no longer Native. Unfortunately for Native peoples, this policy put them in the position of being subjected to systemic physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Children died in mass numbers through torture, neglect, disease, and starvation. Most of the dysfunctionality in Native communities today can be traced to the first generation that was forced to attend boarding schools.18 Thus, Christian missionization,
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