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Discipline & Punishment

Published on Nov 29, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DISCIPLINE & PUNISHMENT

TAYLOR KRUSE

-Government operated 100+ boarding schools
-Children beaten, malnourished, & forced in heavy labor

Boarding School

OWATONNA STATE SCHOOL

  • Between 1886-1945 10,635 kids attended
  • Orphaned, abandoned, & abused were sent
  • School was mainly for dependent & neglected

BILL WRIGHT

  • Sent to Stewart Indian school in Nevada
  • Remembers an advisor hitting a student
  • Wright took him to hospital
  • Had to lie about what really happened
  • He still has nightmares of severe descipline

Bill Wright attended

GENEVIEVE WILLIAMS

  • Attended Tulalip Indian School
  • Forced to stand silent for hours in the dark
  • Children got strapped for speaking native language
  • Girls who wet the bed were beaten
  • "I am a Native American." She says. "I survived"

ABUSES LEADING TO SUICIDE ATTEMPTS

  • Rates are higher with adolescents
  • 23% attempted in the past
  • 33% reported within past month
  • 194 participated in suicide prevention activities
  • 41 programs were school based

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