Sexual Trauma: One Legacy of the Boarding School Era -Ruth Hopkins

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Sexual Trauma: One Legacy of the Boarding School Era By Ruth Hopkins Every American Indian alive today has been affected by the policy of assimilation implemented by the United States government in centuries past. Under the guise of Manifest Destiny, European invaders swept through North America in ever increasing waves- displacing Natives from their ancestral […]read more

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