Tuesday, August 08, 2023

What's wrong with going along with the ones who caved in to being part of an uncaring dominant culture? A lot.

"Ramona Klein keeps a large pair of rubber hands to remind her of the sexual abuse she says she suffered at Fort Totten. 'No child should ever be touched in the way he touched me,' she says of the adult son of a school matron. (Dan Koeck for The Washington Post)

'He’d have those keys and I could hear them jingling,' she said. 'I’d smell that Brylcreem hair cream of his and then … his hands seemed so big.

'No child should ever be touched in the way he touched me.'

She never told her mother about it, didn’t discuss it with anyone until years later in a support and counseling group.

'It’s a lifelong scar,' Klein said. 'It’s a lifelong wound.'

~ Dana Hedgpeth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/08/07/indian-boarding-school-survivors-abuse-trauma/

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