fifthblackbird: brandx: socialismartnature: These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the U.S

fifthblackbird:

brandx:

socialismartnature:

These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the U.S. government to restrain captured Native American children and drag them away from their families to send them to the Indian boarding schools where their identities, cultures and their rights to speak their Native languages were forcefully stripped away from them.

As of this year: the U.S. supreme court ruled in a 5-4 decision that this systemic kidnapping of Native children is legal.

As of today: there are far more First Nations & Native American children in foster care than there were at the HEIGHT of this residential “school” system.

Over 60% of foster kids who age outta “care” are kicked out on the streets, imprisoned, or dead by the age of 20.

Your receipts: #ethnocide#adoption industry#white savior industrial complex

the article about this picture never fails to make me sick.  i really encourage people to read it, though.  for me, it helps to put even more into perspective just how evil the residential schools were.  like, just imagine how young the child was that wore these handcuffs.  it’s absolutely mind-blowing.