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Stolen Innocents
Season 1 · Episode 29

Stolen Innocents

children taken from their families by the government

Your Brain on Facts

August 7, 201829m 0s

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Show Notes

Without getting into current politics, we can’t ignore the plight of children seized from parents of a particular group. And it’s not the first time either. A century ago, the American government took tens of thousands of children from Native families and placed them in boarding schools with strict assimilation practices. Their philosophy - kill the Indian to save the man....

01:00 Indian Schools

09:00 Australia's "stolen generations"

16:00 Ceausescu's orphans

20:15 the Dionne quintuplets

 

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