Not to mention generations of psychological and cultural trauma. Several generations of natives in the southwest were forcibly removed from their homes and put in boarding schools. Many died from starvation, neglect, abuse, and exposure. They were beaten severely when they spoke their own language or expressed in any way their native culture. By the time most of them left the boarding schools they couldn't speak their own language. They couldn't converse with their own families. When they tried to get work in the border towns around the reservations the whites wouldn't hire them. A lot of them either left their homeland or became alcoholics. The damage was terrible to native cultures and it took a long time to recover. Some never did.