1923 star Aminah Nieves on Teonna's journey and telling Indigenous stories: 'We're still here'

1923 star Aminah Nieves on Teonna's journey and telling Indigenous stories: 'We're still here'

Entertainment Weekly-TV·2023-03-01 04:01

Warning: This story contains spoilers for "Nothing Left to Lose," the season finale of 1923.

The year 1923 — and the first season of Yellowstone prequel 1923 — were not kind to Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves). Snatched from her family and forcibly enrolled in a prison-like Catholic boarding school run by the cruel and exacting Father Renaud (Sebastian Roché), Teonna endured physical beatings, sexual assault, and other forms of dehumanizing abuse. The priests and nuns who ran the school were determined to "assimilate" Teonna into white American culture.

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