Native Americans were forcibly removed from their native lands and sent other places and the young were forbidden often to speak their native languages or to practice native religions anymore from the 1800s until around 1970.
For example, even Charlie Thom, who was a Karuk Medicine man from Happy Camp, California was sent away to study at a Government school and forced not to speak his native language or practice his native American religion. So, as a result he became a college professor at Humbolt in Arcata, California and both a Christian minister as well as a Native American Medicine man also eventually. I didn't meet Charlie Thom until around 1983 I believe about the same time as I met Crow, another native American Medicine man by the way.
Charlie Thom sweat with many many White people and people of all races in addition to native Americans and several of his children I have also sweat with over the years in their sweat lodges.
So, what has happened to both the Muslims of Xinjiang and the Tibetans of Tibet and it's surrounding areas is very very similar in preventing them from worshipping their traditional religions.
The main difference is that this is STILL going on in China in almost 2020 whereas in the U.S. this was stopped by AIM "The American Indian Movement" in the 1960s and 1970s.
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