ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photos by Daniella Zalcman @dzalcman | This is Clarita Vargas, a member of the Colville tribe. She attended St. Mary’s Mission School in Washington State from 1968 to 1974. St. Mary’s was one of hundreds of Indian boarding schools opened in the United States with the explicit mission of forcefully assimilating Indigenous youth into the white American cultural majority. More than 100,000 Native children in the U.S. are estimated to have attended these schools, either run by the federal government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs or by independent Christian missionaries. One of Clarita’s earliest memories of the mission was having to type out donation requests as a second grader; these letters were mailed all over the world to solicit financial support. This portrait is a double exposure, overlaying Clarita’s image with a photo of a decaying bible that I found in the ruins of her former school in Omak, Washington. Swipe to see the individual images that make up the composite. Read about Clarita’s story and the history of Indian boarding school systems in the link in bio, or pick up the May issue of National Geographic. This work was supported by @insidenatgeo.」5月13日 22時00分