“I speak to you my elders my ancestors my gods and goddesses
With a bloody mouth and broken hands
I can’t speak your language
I don’t know my own peoples dances food songs art etc
I don’t know my culture traditions and customs
My mind and my mouth can’t understand
Even if my heart and soul does
They made sure of that
With those haole sanctioned schools,”
No’eau Hoata/Heiani Hoata
"If we held a moment of silence For every child who died in a residential school. We would be silent for 134 years." "No matter what the numbers are." "There arent supposed to be graveyards at schools." Ever."
“There are at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending schools in the system. The Department acknowledges that the actual number of children who died while attending Indian boarding schools is likely greater.”
Remember that there is what we call haole sanctioned schools in Pasifika Oceania Where they beat you for speaking your Indigenous te reo, praying to your gods goddesses and demigods, or practicing any facet of your Indigenous Pasifika culture It was a facet of cultural genocide in our island homes
There is a reason why many of our ancestors elders and kin cant speak our te reo Indigenous lingua franca Or spoke in in hush quiet behind close doors out of fear of being beaten again Or in shame The fucking settler state engineered it this way
Does Oceania Pasifika Have a separate day for our Haole sanctioned schools they built in Moana? Or is it also included in September 30th?
