My grandmother was Mohawk of the St Regis Mohawk nation and she was sent to Thomas Indian School at age 10 and survived until she graduated and went to a hospital run by nuns to become a nurse. The fact that she made it out alive was a miracle! And it’s my grandmother! My father’s mother. This history is RECENT.

My Chippewa grandpa was forced into boarding school. When he’d get drunk he’d yell about his American name not being his true name. Truly sad, but I’m dedicated to finding out his true name and identity not his white washed one.

Mine did too. She refused to speak about it. The only thing she ever mentioned was that she would count to ten in our language to make sure she didn’t forget it. They had taken so much from her that that was all she had left. Thank you for sharing your grandmothers story.

My friends mom had scars on her hands/fingers from wooden rulers. She would get smacked for not speaking english.

My Choctaw great grandfather was sent to a residential school as a child. Unfortunately he died before I was born. I'll never get to know his story from him, but today I remember what he went through. I know he had a white step father and it sounded like he only wanted his biological children present so Sam, my great grandfather, and WM, his brother, were sent away. He also eventually moved to California. I may have never known him, but I am proud of him. He raised three children who were so proud of being Choctaw, despite what the school wanted to strip from him. His grand children were proud of being Choctaw (my uncle even went to work for the nation for a season). Today I, his great granddaughter, have incorporated my Choctaw heritage in my life. I own full regalia, go to gatherings and pow wows, have met my chief many times, been back to the reservation, walked on the ancestral lands in Mississippi, and had a Choctaw wedding ceremony. I will never forget what happened to him and even before with the Trail of Tears. My five year old wore orange today too and these stories will stay with her as well. If I have my way, this family will never forget.

My family and I are 100% Navajo, from the Four Corners in New Mexico. Growing up There was tough, rare to find decent Medical, Dental Care and education. It tends to traumatize u at a young age. Members of my own family including my husband grew up in the dormitory. It is a normal way of life. Even today there are children who live in dormitories and go to school on the Navajo Reservation and off the Rez. When i tell others these days they are shocked! Yes there are kids (Kindergarten to Seniors in HS) live in dorms. When non natives are shocked that many youngsters don’t speak our language anymore they are surprised. “What why! Don’t u speak Navajo”. There r times we get tired of the same questions, answering “because my grandparents, parents were punished & beaten, when they spoke their own language. They were told to speak English and only English!” This included cutting their long black hair! Making them wear “white man clothes”. So next time, please think about this before u ask.

This young woman is so well spoken. I think it took a lot of courage for her to share her story. Thank you for doing so.

My great grandfather was sent to one. He died before I was born and there are so many things I wonder about his life. I'll be wearing an orange shirt next week for him.

I’m part Choctaw and Blackfeet and had no clue until a few years ago and two weeks ago, respectively. I am also related to Malcolm X and I wish I had grown up knowing that, especially knowing now that I grew up in Dr. Betty Shabbazz’s neighborhood. I just wish I could have known, but my paternal grandmother feels it’s a negligible amount. My maternal grandmother seems to have been ashamed of our connection and was in denial about it. Maybe it was too painful for her, I guess.

My grandfather escaped residential school. Twice.

Great job buzzedfeed for bring awarness

Thank you for speaking your family’s trauma and history. God bless your family and the generations that come. Ignore the ignorant comments, they don’t deserve your energy

"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky" - Ojibwe saying

Thank you so much for bringing this to light BU. It can never be told enough. 😢

I was finding this really fascinating and enjoying it immensely, until I got to the text on the screen. If you made it any smaller I don't think even ANTS would be able to read it!! So I lost that portion of the story &I have no idea how important, or unimportant, it might have been, but it's really frustrating to know that I've missed out on something to do with his story simply because the text was too small to read! It didn't help that the text didn't remain on the screen long enough for me to even pause the video so I could get my glasses to try and read it. Please try to keep in mind that many of your viewers have difficulty with their eyes and would appreciate large enough text to read on the screen!

My father along with all my uncles n aunties were un residential school

This is awesome journalism, aho

None of this seems unsolved wow it really is falling off after Ryan and Shane left

Thank you for sharing your family story. 😢

OK, but how is this Unsolved??

My dad, aunties and uncles grandparents on mom and dad’s side along with my cousin all are survivors of residential school. My sister is a day school survivor. 1980’s

Thank you for sharing your story. Your really pretty by the way! I have loved reading and hearing about Indians since I was a child, now that I'm older I cant help but think the natural more down to earth life was way better that the peaceful people lived, not the war tribes. Especially compared to current history, big pharma, constant drama, big sports, Kardashians and cellphone and video game zombies we live with now. The history was horrific what the government did to everyone but most people forget how they unalived nearly all the buffalos just to force them off the land for white settlers. My dad and I have fought so many times whenever we discuss the topic, its a hot topic that makes him very angry. He cant stand hearing about the history and thinks I should just leave it in the past where it belongs, he literally has no culture and I miss not having a tribe to belong to😓. My family is very dysfunctional. We only see each other every 10 years or more. My dad and I dont talk anymore bc of so many things, we dont get along.

My grandma survived residential day school. My boyfriends parents both survived residential school.

Almost spooky seasons

My grandma was told her social security that the government had given her around ww2 didn't exist. She died in the hospital because they couldn't give her any medical help without insurance that no one could possibly give her. We are Quapaw.

what’s this channel even ab anymore

খুব ভাল লাগল শুনে🤞

Sounds like we need to bring them back honestly it was a mistake to stop using them

Actually refeshingly good buzzfeed content. Actual journalism

Given the dementia, how do you know that this story is true? Maybe it was a dream she had or a story she read in a book or newspaper, or something from a movie or something she was told about someone else and she just got confused…? Honest curiosity, not saying it’s not true or trying to be being mean…

I'm sorry but she's really pretty and i recognize I have nothing to contribute to the conversation by saying that but it's certainly true

Same here in Canada, I'm not native but I feel for the trauma. My mother's father came from a black family imon the east coast most likely descended from escaped slaves from the US and he and my grandmother who is white went through hell together.

Born and raised in Ardmore Oklahoma and there is way more similar stories like hers that are known to this day. Dark history unfortunately

My mom and grandma were in boarding schools. My grandma could speak inupiaq but my mom could understand but not speak it.

❤Much love to you guys❤

Have faith in Jesus alone to be saved. He is coming back soon.

i wonder what shane thinks after us govt came out with aliens and mexico

My dad survived me.

I know this woman contains multitudes and I'm not dismissing any of that when I state this: But she is Insanely Beautiful.

Dang

Damn this channel fell off without Ryan and Shane

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So did like basically everyone. lol

This is an important history that needs to be told despite what the WS and their ignorant children say. Thry feel bad bc their plumderers of life and they dont want to be reminded abt how wicked and evil their ancestors are.

Change the title to be honest

Oof only 21k views in 12 days

Hmmm couldve been more in depth. These "schools" were also known as residential schools.

Some of the ignorant comments under this video are EXACTLY why these stories need to be told. Europeans came in and took EVERYTHING from indigenous people who were already here. The effort to erase and deny it is appalling. There are those who try to cover it up, but it happened and we should learn from it.

i legitimately thought she was an AI wtf

plz bring back those old days

I can feel negative comments coming in already istg-

Hmmm, maybe it's not a bad idea to have children care for their school building and grounds. Not back breaking work, but chores like weeding, washing walls, wiping tables, picking up and emptying trash, etc. If kids cared for the property, they would "care" for the property, help at home and not be baffled as adults.

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Where is true crime series where is supernatural series 😒 please highlight this comment if u are waiting for the same.

She looks like she was generated through and AI

BuzzFeed more like Buzzoverdramatic PCBSfeed

Yeah, the only sane thing she brought up in all this rambling was the narcissism that clearly must run in the family. SHE had to TELL others theyre being manipulated. SHE DECIDED her grandmother was abú$3d. Its all up to her. Apparently. 🙄 Ooor she just didn't like her dad, and is a soft brat whos never worked for anything, so she sees a school that also has children work (barely) as all @bú$3... Don't get me wrong, PLENTY of those schools had REAL @buß3 going on, but its VERY OBVIOUS this is just BUZZFEED WANTING someone to say "generational trauma" 43 times.

Doll eyes fr

I was forced to go to school…….😂

I thought this was AI 😮

Shouldn't have lost then.

It's sad to see how hard this show fell off after Shane, Ryan and co jumped ship to watcher... What a metoric rise and what an extreme and sadenning fall I will only think good things about Buzzfeed Unsolved and I used to watch every episode, but this is a massive fall from grace... It is a shame

Why does she look like an anime character 😅

wtf is this........ (N)

This is very clickbaity most of this is more on family drama and less about the schools and mistreatment of native Americans

Is this like those "mass graves" that never existed in Canada? Survived what? That's like saying "I survived pouring a glass of water." True...but a stretch of the word.

American problems be like

i smell CAP

Everybody survived, it was all a big lie

I'm traumatized because my grandma went to boarding school? You look like you are doing pretty well, calm down.

Views have been nonexistent since the ghoul brothers been gone

So

Yea, there’s nothing different going on here at all. This is normal.

Gimme a break.

Seems as credible as the mass graves turned out to be 😂

I’m so proud of my Indian heritage…. By marrying a white guy 😂😂😂

Don't remember asking

Did we ask?

Nope don’t care.

Wow a school where they make you do stuff than just to lay around lazily. A school that prepares you for real life. Making food, cleaning, sewing and gardening. Couldnt imagine what a nightmare that would've been. If only the people tortured by Nazis would know what u went through!

This young woman is so well spoken. I think it took a lot of courage for her to share her story. Thank you for doing so.

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