“Bone by bone, two archaeologists lifted the 130-year-old skeletal remains of a Native American girl from the shallow grave in a roadside cemetery. A hand bone, a rib, a chunk of vertebrae and, finally, her skull.
Almeda Heavy Hair had been forcibly removed from her family and the Gros Ventre tribe when she was 12 and sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, one of hundreds of institutions operated by the U.S. government to eradicate Native Americans’ culture and assimilate them into White society.
She died in 1894, four years after arriving, without ever seeing her family again. Now, 19 of Almeda’s relatives and others from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana — some crying, some praying as they watched her bones being exhumed — had come to take Almeda home.”
Washington Post
The Caste and the Class. This is textbook caste. Native Peoples were not considered to be human beings…and a strict caste enforced this rampant racism and yes fascism.
The behavior of white supremacy was copied by Hitler in WWII. In fact Germans were sent in the 1930s to check out the Indians’ Reservations.
Even today many Native People are kept in Reservations, or in run down small towns…many are kept from purchasing land.
This is one of the worst examples of rampant racism and caste behavior, right in the United States that considers itself aloof from such things…not so.
The Native People are still discriminated against.