The Yellowstone prequel spinoff 1923 offers insight into one of the darkest periods of Indigenous American history, during a time when horrific government-sanctioned abuse took place under the guise of education and religion.While the plotline of the Montana-set drama might be fictional, the physical and emotional abuse that is witnessed at a Catholic boarding school for Indigenous American youth and attended by Teonna Rainwater - played by Aminah Nieves - is based on real-life events.Indeed, the U.S. Interior Department launched an in-depth investigation in 2021 to look at the troubled legacy of government and church-run boarding schools and the findings make for shocking reading.
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