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There were also kids there that were much younger than us. They went to school there because their village did not have a school that went up to eighth grade. So you had some really small kids there, eight, nine years old, from villages. I think a lot of those kids could not handle it being away from their homes and they lost it afterwards. They were much younger than us and they had been removed from their homes.

As an adult I understand what they were thinking. They were trying to provide some sort of education, but not in our own culture. I think they could have afforded us the same education in our communities and eventually that’s what happened. I believe the federal government had the responsibility to provide education in our communities and it did not do that. They just provided K through eight instead of K through twelve. They should have provided the whole thing without sending us to boarding schools. I think we’re still living with the damage done to some of those individuals. Later, when Alaska got oil money and there were lawsuits, schools were built in all of the villages to provide K through twelve as it should have been from the beginning.