Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools
Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools
MISSION, S.D. (AP) — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just 4 years old, she was put into a Native American boarding school in South Dakota and told her native Lakota language was “devil’s speak.”
She recalls being locked in a basement at St. Francis Indian Mission School for weeks as punishment for breaking the school’s strict rules. Her long braids were shorn in a…