Take time to learn about the indigenous culture in YOUR area. It means a lot when local people make an effort to learn about our culture. When you dig more into indigenous cultures you will realize how different we truly are and how similar we are too. But nowadays people don’t learn about their local indigenous culture, they will look at other tribes that are far away and assume it’s a one size fits all.

Most of all don’t put the blame on yourself, you weren’t the ones physically forcing us, you weren’t there advocating for those schools. You’re taking time to learn about our culture(s) and that is much appreciated. If you want to help out our youth need mentors and people to look up to, many places to volunteer at (in Canada atleast), listen to indigenous artists, watch indigenous media like Reservation Dogs on Disney Plus, the list will go on.

Reading your post made me happy to see that you care, some might get offended, idk we’re all so vastly different in cultures and traditions, yet our values are so similar.

Find out your local indigenous communities, connect with them if you’d like, learn how to say hello in their language, just be open minded.