Taken From My Home: Indian Boarding Schools in Perspective, Told by Teenagers Who Lived Through the Unthinkable.(Young adult review)(Video recording review)

* Taken From My Home: Indian Boarding Schools in Perspective, Told by Teenagers Who Lived Through the Unthinkable. DVD. 43 rain. with tchr's. resources, web links. Fascinating Learning Factory. 2009, 2010 release. ISBN 978-1-4507-3930-6. $29.95.

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Gr 6 Up--"Kill the Indian, save the man." This slogan, adopted by Richard Henry Pratt, Superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, was and is as dangerous as it sounds. The intent to strip Native American children of their culture and assimilate them into the white Christian community can be seen as the failure and tragedy it was as recollections are given a voice in this powerful documentary by Robin …