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Notes from Indian Country
The dark legacy of the boarding schools
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
As the years go by the number of boarding school survivors dwindles and most of us still alive with our memories are in our eighties and it won’t be long before there will be none of us left to tell our stories.
But I have seen on Facebook and have received letters prior to that from members of the generation following the boarding school experiment who say that they know their mother or dad or their grandparents went to the boarding schools but they never talk about it. I didn’t want the memories of those days die so I wrote a small book about it.
The book was published in the 1970s by the Indian Historian Press and edited by Rupert Costo, himself a survivor of a Californian boarding school. It was called “The Aboriginal Sin” and came out in about 1975.
It was republished in 1997 by Clear Light Publishing of Santa Fe, New Mexico and renamed “Children Left Behind.” In the foreword I wrote, “This book is intended to bring back the memories of the boarding schools to those who have survived them. It is also intended to cause those memories, good and bad, to bring about a process of healing that has long been denied. But more than that, it is written to bring out the truth that has been hidden for too many years.”
Contact Tim Giago at najounalist1@gmail.com
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