Sometimes Lance will just start talking to Keith out of he blue. He’ll ramble on and on about his family and what messes he’d get into with his siblings. And Keith will just sit there and listen absentmindedly cleaning his Bayard or knife but he’s listening to every word and Lance just stops because he realizes he’s been talking for an hour straight and most kids and adults would say he talked too much they would find it annoying and Lance learned how to just keep his mouth shut most days so he wouldn’t be as annoying. And Keith doesn’t seem to be paying much attention anyway so he gets up to leave and,
“Where are you going?”
“Um, I thought you didn’t want to hear anymore, I mean it’s ben an hour and…”
“But you were just getting to the part where your little sister put her pet scorpion in that asshole Jake’s lunchbox I wanna know what happens later.”
And Lance can’t help but grin as he finishes his story and starts on others and it just becomes their own little routine and Keith remembers to remind him where the last story left off so Lance will continue from there and overall it’s just two boys enjoying each other’s company.
This is probably one of the most depressingly heart-wrenching photos I’ve ever seen. Native American children taken from their families and put into school to assimilate them into white society. the slogan for this governmental campaign ’“kill the Indian to save the man”. no official apology has ever been issued. never forgotten.
This is why we keep talking. Every child in this photo deserves to be talked about. The children grew up to be adults… adults who suffer from mental illnesses and a lack of connection to a culture/people that never wanted them to leave. These scars are passed down from generation to generation… and in reality the above picture is closer to present times than many would like to admit.
The amount of inter generational trauma from these schools ALONE has caused so much fuckery amongst native peoples.
And barely anybody understands it’s impact because the school systems don’t teach you this forced assimilation.
in canada these are known as residential schools, and since i started high school they’ve been discussed in multiple different classes ive taken. the last canadian residential school closed in 1996, if that puts it more into perspective. also yes, the canadian government has apologized for them.
the middle school i went to was (on the site of) an old residential school
I’m babysitting and I forgot that I’m probably lactose intolerant and I ate some ice cream with the kids and now I wanna die
reckless & terribly gay 