Edited sentence: For decades children were taken off the reservations, away from their families & forced to attend boarding schools to "aid in their assemilation" to become more white.Many died and those that didn't were forced to make grave markers for the ones that had.The damage done to the family unit and to each child is still felt today.There they received white names, clothes, history, were stripped of their culture, language, religion, were forced to be right-handed and most suffered extreme abuse