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June 10, 1879

Well it was a horrible day for me I was in the house with my mother and father and brother that’s  when they came into my house. My mother grabbed me they were start smashing things destroying everything that’s when they grabbed me and my brother my mother was screaming ‘‘stop what are you doing’’and cringing at the same time. I was 12 and my brother 13 we had no idea what was going on I could here my mother from a distance crying my brother holding on to me. Then we had to take a train to were we were going. Then we rode in a wagon and after that we had to walk a little bit then we were finally there was a huge house. They took my brother and the rest of the boys and the girls in different places o f the house the were getting there hair cut then all the girls and boys had to stand in a straight line. They said ‘’ give me your satchel and anything Indian’’ . But they came to me and I would not let them take my stuff my grandmother gave it to me. I put up a fight but not a good one they took my stuff.

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Jolaila Lamarre Dear Native American child,                 My name is Nature and I am 14 years old. I just want to tell you that I’ve been in Carlisle Boarding School since I was four years old. You might like the school because you are going to make lots of friends. There are going to be things you may not like at all. They will cut your hair and change your clothing. While you are here you don’t get to do the things you want to do. I used to play outside with my friends and cook dinner with my mother. We used to make corn, buffalo, and fish. Now I don’t eat this food anymore because they teach us how to make American food. I miss my home a lot and I haven’t seen my parents in years. I wonder if my parents think about me every day and I wonder if they miss me too! I have four siblings and I think about them every day. My new name is Elizabeth Walker, they will also change your name. You may not like it buts its part of the rules. Maybe if you come here I’ll help you around and make you feel comfortable.     					Sincerely,  		Elizabeth Walker 

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Jolaila Lamarre Dear Native American child,                 My name is Nature and I am 14 years old. I just want to tell you that I’ve been in Carlisle Boarding School since I was four years old. You might like the school because you are going to make lots of friends. There are going to be things you may not like at all. They will cut your hair and change your clothing. While you are here you don’t get to do the things you want to do. I used to play outside with my friends and cook dinner with my mother. We used to make corn, buffalo, and fish. Now I don’t eat this food anymore because they teach us how to make American food. I miss my home a lot and I haven’t seen my parents in years. I wonder if my parents think about me every day and I wonder if they miss me too! I have four siblings and I think about them every day. My new name is Elizabeth Walker, they will also change your name. You may not like it buts its part of the rules. Maybe if you come here I’ll help you around and make you feel comfortable.     					Sincerely,  		Elizabeth Walker 

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Dear, American Government I am against taking children away from their family and getting put in boarding school. Children shouldn’t get taken away from their families. Children still this day remember getting taken from their families and how it felt to them. Flyod Red Crow still remember how he felt when he saw his mom when got took from his parents he saw his mom out the window as he was crying. Westerman spent the rest of their life in boarding school far from their families and the Dakota tribe. I just want to ask the government to not take no more children from their families it heart breaking that they have go through so young and most of them don’t even survive.

Sincerely, Zahirah Corbitt

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Dear Dakota Pipeline Builders, My name is Jalaylah Claitt , I am in 7th grade and I play for the 7th grade girls basketball team. I wrote this letter to show how much I care about this environment , animals  , humans ,water and basically everything in this world . I don’t want this environment to be so destroyed . Also, I don’t want to see these animals suffering and dying . Everyone in this world need water to keep them healthy . I wouldn’t like to see people on this earth

suffering. Anyone that is reading this please to my words.

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Kara Campbell                                                                                                                                                                  trail of tears
November   9 1809
dear American public,

While we are resting I had time to write this letter to you monsters who are agreeing with this.
I want to tell you how I fell about this. How I look. I am bruised cut all over me I am bleeding all over from falling of hunger. My people are dying. My mother is sick; my father died of frost bite last night. we didn’t have time to grab any of our possessions. So I am freezing at night trying to stay alive. we walk every day trying to get to this place. But people keep dying and we have to keep stopping to bury them.i remember   the day they took us like it  was yesterday . I  was just playing with my friends when I saw the men take my mother and father. They broke your pottery smashed your food. But what did we do to deserve any of this. So please I am begging you all I can with all my strength in my heart to stop these men and bring us to your home. And if I die safe the young generation please.

kara Campbell
native American walker

sincerely,

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Have you ever heard of the of the Carlisle boarding school for the Native Americans, well im going to tell you about it from a young Native American child. Hi, I am a native American young boy, so on Monday of 1880 I was playing outside with my friends and in a split second I was taken from my home and taken to the Carlisle Boarding School in Pennsavannia. They took me there and they forced me to cut off my long hair. Also, they forced me to change my name to a white mans name. All my Indian in me was slowly forced out of me and replaced with Western traditions, language, education, and religion. They wanted to destroy the Indian in me. I had to were a military uniform and engage in mitary drills. The man who started all of this was Captian Richard Henry Patt was in the 10th
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Indian Boarding School

Dear American Public,

How would you like to be kidnapped to a boarding school?  These children were abducted and sent to a boarding school.  In this boarding school, Boys hair had to be cut off.  Also, they had to wear uniforms and practice military drills.  If they tried to escape, they would be shot.  Due to this situation, Pratt was told to take 72 Indian Prisoners to Fort Marion in Augustine, Florida.  Kids died from diseases like tuberculous, influenza, and trachoma.  Most people died at this boarding school from tuberculosis.

Kaleigh Martin

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Dear journal

My expirence in bording school was a disaster I was humiliated in front of the jocks but there was one guy that stoll my girl friend in a street race his name was Isaiah agosto he drives a 2016 dodge chalenger.I drive a 67 chevy nova with a small block big tire with a small block pumping out 450 hourse power with nos.Then on top of that my teacher tried to fail me in math but I

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Kristin Mest

Dear diary I am still at this awful boarding school. my teacher embarrassed me in front of my friends. It was just because I turned in a assignment late that does not mean embarrass me in front of my friends. I hope this incident does not make me lose my friends because I worked so hard to get them as my friends and I refuse to lose them. No not good I heard whispering from down the hallway probably them so not good. It is 12:00 pm time for lunch and the ultimate friendship test here goes nothing. Thank goodness I still have my friends wait what is this I opened up the letter and if was from an unknown person. And it said there will be no second chances do not screw this up this is your last chance. I am so scared who is this and why would they send me such a cryptic message I should tell the principal about this cryptic and terrifying letter and search for where it came from.

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Dear Donald Trump,

I don’t think the Dakota Pipeline should be built because it would through many of Native Americans homes. Also because it could ruin their water supply, also if the pipe would happen to break, it would leak and go into the water that they use and they could get sick because of the oil. They wouldn’t be able to drink the water so they could die from not keeping themselves hydrated. The money that you are spending on trying to build this pipeline could go to better things.

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Treshir Jeffcoat

Dakota pipeline letter

Dear: Donald Trump, I think that you should not have us out their building the Dakota pipeline. First of all its way to much money and work. Second all that oil getting transported from different states is way too dangerous. Also the barriers that are getting transported are way to heavy is they were to fall off the truck people would be seriously hurt. People like me don’t want that to be built all that land could be a village for homeless people. As you can see a bunch of people don’t want the Dakota pipeline to be built.

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This is your President talking listen very carefully we need your land. This is why cause the America need somewhere to live. yall can come over to sometime please .its wrong from trying to take the land from them but americans need to have a place to stay.

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This is your President talking listen very carefully we need your land. This is why cause the America need somewhere to live. yall can come over to sometime please .its wrong from trying to take the land from them but americans need to have a place to stay.

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jaquay washington

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Dear Amarican public,

Our people should not be forced away from our family, and our loved ones to be forced to learn others traditions,lanuguages,and religion.They started this in 1870s when the United States was still in war with the Indians.We were tooken of our necklaces and other trible things that we charished.We were forced to were fancy clothing.We slept in bunks with other tribes that we didn’t know we were forced to pray to the god that they forced us to.Children died because of the illnesses that whent around the bording schools.We where not able to have our loved dream catchers.They will make us into what they wanted us to be just because we lived near them. And we want to go home.

From,the native youth

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Jacob Moser Dakota pipeline Donald trump pd 5

Good  afternoon
my fellow Americans  I would like to discuss an important matter with you
that divides us the Dakota pipeline. I personally support the pipeline the
pipeline will help save us the costs of oil explosions and fires which will save
the American oil truckers lives. The pipeline will also get us about 20,000
jobs with the pipeline and It will keep my promise on creating jobs. The
pipeline will also boost our economy and boost the stock market as well. The pipeline will also help expand companies wich will also create more jobs. But I will compromise with the natives IF necessary. The compromise with natives will redirect the pipeline through Minnasota ,Wisconsin and Illinois. But that is only a compromise I hope it wont come to that but I am ready if it does. Until than I say this to you Goodnight.

Donald J. Trump

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Justyna Epright

Raft Activity

December 9, 2016
Dear all other African americans and Americans, I am am a fellow African American who is protesting against the Dakota Pipeline. May I remind you that we all need to stand strong. The Dakota pipeline will affect our water. Water is not a renewable resource. If the water is affected by the oil, we will have no more water. The human body can only go three days without water. After the three days, the human population will start to die out. If you enjoy gardening, you will need water to help the plants or crops grow. Without the water, the plant will wither up and die. If anybody has a pet, you will need water. To either have the pet drink it, or if you have pet fish, you will need water for them to survive. Today we have taken the last straw. We will not lose. We need to stand strong. Many people enjoy drinking water, and if the dakota pipeline is under our lake and seas, it might break and pollute our water! All the animals that live in the ponds, lakes, and seas will die. Some people hunt in those places for food. The Oil Spill was no joke. I am pretty sure we don’t want that to happen again. It took a long time to depollute the water. Many people will be angry and they wont stop until we achive victorious. We will fight and continue to fight until we win. We wont care if we have to stay up and protest. We will do it until we win. When people are agrivated they form an angry mob and protest. And sometimes it turns into a life and death battle. But we don’t care. We will do whatever it takes to win!

From, Krystal Formanto

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          Dear , American public                The Native Americans are slowly dying. I have seen kids walking with their mothers and fathers one day, and by themselves the next. I can’t keep getting these awful looks from these kids and even adults. They don’t get proper places to sleep. They look misrable and you just look at them as if they are a zoo. For just one day I would like you to put yourself in their shoe and feel their pain.  Also they don’t have shoes the souls of their feet are cut up. The least you could is help by giving them your old shoes. Kids parents are DIED before the should have. How would you feel if the people you loved died before your eyes.

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          Dear , American public                The Native Americans are slowly dying. I have seen kids walking with their mothers and fathers one day, and by themselves the next. I can’t keep getting these awful looks from these kids and even adults. They don’t get proper places to sleep. They look misrable and you just look at them as if they are a zoo. For just one day I would like you to put yourself in their shoe and feel their pain.  Also they don’t have shoes the souls of their feet are cut up. The least you could is help by giving them your old shoes. Kids parents are DIED before the should have. How would you feel if the people you loved died before your eyes.

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By  Michael WeberDear government as a Native American youth I feel that we are treated differently because of our culture. I can’t believe that you would make use cut our and rip away our culture. I am appalled that you said that the only good Indian is a dead one .the boarding schools were meant to rip and tear away all tribal identity. So they would become “good” white men and women. Unbelievable that if they got sick they would get shipped back to their families sick possible endangering their own family  

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By  Michael WeberDear government as a Native American youth I feel that we are treated differently because of our culture. I can’t believe that you would make use cut our and rip away our culture. I am appalled that you said that the only good Indian is a dead one .the boarding schools were meant to rip and tear away all tribal identity. So they would become “good” white men and women. Unbelievable that if they got sick they would get shipped back to their families sick possible endangering their own family  

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joseph deleo

Dear boarding school teachers

My name is fergus smelcer and I don’t think kidnapping kids to bring them to a boarding school is right. I am a native youth and I am forced to go to a boarding school. I think its wrong how I am forced to change my language and my beliefs. Destroying my cultural identity doesn’t make me feel important. Nobody has the right to cut off my hair. Having young children do military drills should be considered a crime. I'm still a kid I want be able to live my life freely, not getting controlled by old people in a boarding school. I hope this message can make people think about what we have to go through in boarding school.

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Dear Donald J RUMP, I know your not president yet but do you think you could stop the Dakota pipelines because for instance, what if there  was a person who does sports at school they would need water eventually  and that is my concern like, what if the pipelines break or crack the oil would pollute the river and kill all the fish and animals that drink it in the area, and that would force us to move to another area and we like living here and we would hate it if we was forced to move by Demetrius jones

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Dear Donald J RUMP, I know your not president yet but do you think you could stop the Dakota pipelines because for instance, what if there  was a person who does sports at school they would need water eventually  and that is my concern like, what if the pipelines break or crack the oil would pollute the river and kill all the fish and animals that drink it in the area, and that would force us to move to another area and we like living here and we would hate it if we was forced to move by Demetrius jones

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Dear  President,

I am a Native American youth. I was kidnapped from my family, and they brought me to the Carlisle Boarding School. They made me chop my hair off and I felt bad because that was a big part of me. I have to follow all of the rules and they treat me with disrespect. I feel hatred in this school. Making friends is easy because  I know most of the people here. The others feel bad because they got taken from their families too.

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This is a letter to Andrew Jackson and the government. Why have you put us here? You made us cut our hair and forget our language. I saw a family of 3 trying to escape and they were shot down. After we actually got into the school, they gave us American names mine was Phoenix. They told us to give them our clothes and gave us military style outfits. They taught us English and math, science, and reading, but they beat us and made us forget our culture. Deep down we are all the same. We have a brain, a heart, a soul, the only difference is my skin. So I ask you, please let all of us go, for we have done nothing wrong. Rafi K. Sanchez Jr. August 12 1911

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This is a letter to Andrew Jackson and the government. Why have you put us here? You made us cut our hair and forget our language. I saw a family of 3 trying to escape and they were shot down. After we actually got into the school, they gave us American names mine was Phoenix. They told us to give them our clothes and gave us military style outfits. They taught us English and math, science, and reading, but they beat us and made us forget our culture. Deep down we are all the same. We have a brain, a heart, a soul, the only difference is my skin. So I ask you, please let all of us go, for we have done nothing wrong. Rafi K. Sanchez Jr. August 12 1911