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Cante Sica shantay shecha Lakota expression literally heart bad refers to a persons devastating sorrow History Beginning in the late nineteenth century the American government instituted a system of boarding schools with the goal of indigenous cultural and linguistic erasure. Over nearly a century these schools removed children from their families and suppressed the already threatened cultural identities of Native Americans. Who We Are The Cante Sica Foundations mission is to create opportunities for healing understanding and reconciliation around the legacy of the Native American boarding school system the U. S.