On June 19th 1865, Native people were improsoned in open air prisons called "reservations." Native children we being ripped away from their families and communities, and sent to child prisons called "residential schools," where they were abused, beaten, raped and killed for who they were. Informing some of the last enslaved human beings in the US that slavery was supposed to have been ended two years prior, was not the same as granting freedom.