US gov’t: At least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools
2 years, 7 months ago

US gov’t: At least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools

Al Jazeera  

Boarding schools were part of a policy to sever cultural traditions and take land from Indigenous people, government report finds Los Angeles, California – A US government investigation has found at least 53 separate burial sites at federal Native American boarding schools, and officials expect to find more, according to a new report released Wednesday. It found the boarding school system was “expansive”, consisting of 408 “federal Indian boarding schools” across 37 states and territories, including 21 schools in Alaska and seven schools in Hawaii. “The assimilation of Indian children through the Federal Indian boarding school system was intentional and part of that broader goal of Indian territorial dispossession for the expansion of the United States,” the report confirmed. “Rampant physical, sexual and emotional abuse; disease; malnourishment; overcrowding; and lack of health care in Indian boarding schools are well-documented.” According to the report, young, malnourished children were forced to perform industrial labour.

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Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school in Pennsylvania on Monday to honor the resilience of Indigenous tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and hundreds of similar abusive institutions. The creation of the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument — announced during a tribal leaders summit …

Democrats Step Up Outreach to Native American Communities, Aiming to Boost Support for Vice President Kamala Harris
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Democrats Step Up Outreach to Native American Communities, Aiming to Boost Support for Vice President Kamala Harris

India Today  

Democrats are stepping up outreach to Native American communities to boost support for Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona. The campaign is closely contested, with both Harris and former President Donald Trump targeting Native American voters. Biden's visit to the Gila River Indian Community's land in Arizona is seen as a chance to highlight his and Harris' support for tribal …

Biden Apologizes for Boarding School Abuse, a Historic Step for Native Americans
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Biden Apologizes for Boarding School Abuse, a Historic Step for Native Americans

Associated Press  

President Joe Biden apologized for the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children endured in boarding schools at the hands of the federal government. Many Native Americans have welcomed the apology as a step toward accountability, but they say words must be followed up by action. Biden pledged to make good on the recommendations of an Interior Department investigation, including …

Biden Apologizes for 'Most Horrific Chapter' in Native American History
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Biden Apologizes for 'Most Horrific Chapter' in Native American History

Firstpost  

US President Joe Biden delivers an impassioned, historic apology for one of the United States’ “most horrific chapters”: ripping Native American children from their families and putting them in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture. Biden acknowledged the atrocities committed by the boarding schools and expressed sincere remorse for the pain and suffering endured by the children and …

Biden's Apology for Native American Boarding Schools Sparks Outrage and Protests
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Biden's Apology for Native American Boarding Schools Sparks Outrage and Protests

Firstpost  

President Joe Biden delivered a formal apology for the United States' role in operating abusive Native American boarding schools during his first visit to Indian Country as president. The event drew both cheers and heckling from the audience, with Biden responding to a pro-Palestinian demonstrator's question about his apology for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with a brief statement about innocent people …

Biden apologizes for Native American boarding school policy he calls ‘blot’ on US history
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Biden apologizes for Native American boarding school policy he calls ‘blot’ on US history

The Independent  

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Joe Biden Formally Apologizes For ‘Dark Chapter’ Of Federal Indian Boarding Schools
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Joe Biden Formally Apologizes For ‘Dark Chapter’ Of Federal Indian Boarding Schools

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — In an emotional scene, President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the U.S. government’s decades of horrific treatment of thousands of Indigenous children in federal Indian boarding schools. The goal of these schools, as the founder of one of the flagship boarding schools, Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, put it in …

President Biden apologizes for 150-year Native American boarding school policy
2 months ago

President Biden apologizes for 150-year Native American boarding school policy

LA Times  

President Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated Indian children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history.” “It’s a sin on our soul,” said Biden, his voice full of anger and emotion. Biden spoke of the abuses and deaths of Native American …

A Century of Abuse: The Unfathomable Legacy of Boarding Schools on Native American Tribes
2 months ago

A Century of Abuse: The Unfathomable Legacy of Boarding Schools on Native American Tribes

Associated Press  

The article details the horrific history of forced assimilation and abuse of Native American children in the United States. It highlights the 150-year campaign by the U.S. government to break up Native American culture, language and identity through boarding schools. The survivors of these schools suffer from generational trauma and struggle with substance abuse, broken relationships, and other social problems …

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive US boarding schools
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive US boarding schools

Hindustan Times  

— At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in abusive US boarding schools The investigation commissioned by Interior Sec. “The federal government …

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

Associated Press  

— At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. …

Nearly 1,000 Indigenous children died in US boarding schools, report finds
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Nearly 1,000 Indigenous children died in US boarding schools, report finds

Al Jazeera  

US gov’t report finds dozens of marked and unmarked graves at institutions Indigenous children were forced to attend. At least 973 Indigenous children died while attending boarding schools run or supported by the United States government, a federal report has found, prompting calls for an apology for the pain suffered at the abuse-riddled institutions. “The Road to Healing does not …

U.S. Catholic Church Formally Apologizes For Role In Indian Boarding Schools
6 months ago

U.S. Catholic Church Formally Apologizes For Role In Indian Boarding Schools

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has formally apologized for the church’s role in inflicting trauma and abuse on generations of Native American children and families through its participation in Indian boarding schools. By a 181-2 vote, the conference on Friday approved a 56-page document titled “Keeping Christ’s Sacred Promise: A Pastoral Framework for Indigenous Ministry.” In …

Two Native American boys died at a boarding school in the 1890s. Now, the tribe wants them home
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Two Native American boys died at a boarding school in the 1890s. Now, the tribe wants them home

Associated Press  

When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away in Pennsylvania, they were buried there without notice. The Army has disinterred 32 remains of Native American children at the Army’s expense since 2017, the OAC spokesperson said. He said that using the Army process rather than NAGPRA “strips the …

Survivors say trauma from abusive Native American boarding schools stretches across generations
1 year, 1 month ago

Survivors say trauma from abusive Native American boarding schools stretches across generations

Associated Press  

— Donovan Archambault was 11 years old in 1950 when he was sent from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana to a government-backed Native American boarding school in Pierre, South Dakota, where abusive staff forced him to abandon his community’s language and customs. “It was probably the most brutal time of my whole life,” Archambault recalled Sunday, “and it …

Legacy of Native American boarding schools comes into view through a new interactive map
1 year, 3 months ago

Legacy of Native American boarding schools comes into view through a new interactive map

Associated Press  

A group focused on shedding more light on the troubled legacy of boarding schools where Indigenous children were stripped of their culture and language as part of assimilation efforts released a new interactive map that includes dozens of additional schools in the U.S. and Canada. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition already had what was considered the most …

It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.
1 year, 3 months ago

It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.

Huff Post  

It’s no secret that the church played a major role in imposing colonial rule in North America. But if you grew up under the American education system like me, you might’ve never learned about the Christian-run boarding schools that forcibly enrolled Native American children and then attempted to wipe out their culture. Recently, the National Native American Boarding School Healing …

Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
1 year, 4 months ago

Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A coalition advocating for Native American people traumatized by an oppressive system of boarding schools for Native youths plans to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools in that system that were operated by the Quakers. For decades, documents related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools have been largely unstudied, as they exist in remote and dispersed collections …

Remains of 5 more Native American children to be disinterred in Pennsylvania
1 year, 6 months ago

Remains of 5 more Native American children to be disinterred in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

CARLISLE, Pa. — The remains of five more Native American children who died at a notorious government-run boarding school in Pennsylvania over a century ago will be disinterred from a small Army cemetery and returned to descendants, authorities said Thursday. The children attended the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and …

Funding to support oral histories in boarding school era
1 year, 7 months ago

Funding to support oral histories in boarding school era

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The first step toward addressing …

Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools
1 year, 11 months ago

Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools

Associated Press  

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. — During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Pershlie Ami signed up to go on what the school called an “outing” — promoted as opportunities for Native American students to earn spending money off campus. “This is one step among many that we will take to strengthen and rebuild the bonds with the Native communities that federal …

Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools
2 years, 2 months ago

Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools

Associated Press  

— After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old, she was put into a Native American boarding school in South Dakota and told her native Lakota language was “devil’s speak.” She recalls being locked in a basement at St. Francis Indian Mission School for weeks as punishment for breaking the school’s strict rules. “I’m going …

Tribal elders recall painful boarding school memories
2 years, 5 months ago

Tribal elders recall painful boarding school memories

Associated Press  

ANADARKO, Okla. — Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified Saturday about the hardships they endured, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames. “I still feel that pain,” said 84-year-old Donald Neconie, a former U.S. Marine and member of the Kiowa Tribe who once attended the Riverside Indian School in …

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Testifies In Historic Hearing On Indian Boarding Schools
2 years, 6 months ago

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Testifies In Historic Hearing On Indian Boarding Schools

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivered devastating testimony Wednesday about the U.S. government’s decades-long policy of forcibly removing Native American children from their families and putting them into violent, far-away boarding schools intended to assimilate them into white culture. “The consequences of federal Indian boarding school policies — including the intergenerational trauma caused by forced family separation and …

U.S. grappling with Native American boarding school history
2 years, 7 months ago

U.S. grappling with Native American boarding school history

LA Times  

A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once nearby is displayed under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque on July 1, 2021. Deb Haaland is pushing the U.S. government to reckon with its role in Native American boarding schools like no other …

US grappling with Native American boarding school history
2 years, 7 months ago

US grappling with Native American boarding school history

Associated Press  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Deb Haaland is pushing the U.S. government to reckon with its role in Native American boarding schools like no other Cabinet secretary could — backed by personal experience, a struggle with losing her own Native language and a broader community that has felt the devastating impacts. It’s “Working with the Interior, knowing that there are representatives in …

US reckoning with role in Native American boarding schools
2 years, 7 months ago

US reckoning with role in Native American boarding schools

Associated Press  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Deb Haaland is pushing the U.S. government to reckon with its role in Native American boarding schools like no other Cabinet secretary could — backed by personal experience, a struggle with losing her own Native language and a broader community that has felt the devastating impacts. It’s “Working with the Interior, knowing that there are representatives in …

US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far
2 years, 7 months ago

US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far

Associated Press  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions, but officials expect that figure to grow exponentially as research continues. The dark history of Native American boarding schools — where children were forced from …

Hundreds Of Native Children Died At Government Boarding Schools: U.S. Report
2 years, 7 months ago

Hundreds Of Native Children Died At Government Boarding Schools: U.S. Report

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Hundreds of Native children died at boarding schools the U.S. government forced them to attend from 1819 to 1969 in a violent, racist attempt to assimilate Native people and take their territories, according to an Interior Department report. The report released Wednesday, commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, found that around 19 federal Indian boarding schools accounted …

First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning
2 years, 8 months ago

First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

Associated Press  

As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools. “An apology is the best way to start any conversation,” said Roy Callison, a Catholic deacon and Cherokee Nation member helping coordinate the Oklahoma …

Haaland: Report on Indigenous boarding schools expected soon
2 years, 9 months ago

Haaland: Report on Indigenous boarding schools expected soon

Associated Press  

The Interior Department is on the verge of releasing a report on its investigation into the federal government’s past oversight of Native American boarding schools. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition signed an agreement with the Interior Department in December to share research but has noted that Interior’s authority is limited. “We see it as a critical first …

Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves
3 years ago

Inside the US push to uncover Indigenous boarding school graves

Al Jazeera  

Researchers say unmarked graves likely will be found at majority of boarding schools for Indigenous children across US. The US government ran at least 367 schools like this one – forced assimilation institutions that aimed to exterminate Indigenous language and culture, according to the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. In an 1892 speech, US Army officer Richard Pratt, who …

US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools
3 years, 5 months ago

US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools

Associated Press  

The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States — and in particular by the churches that operated many of them. This painful history has drawn relatively little attention in the United States compared with …

Uncovering boarding school history makes for monumental task
3 years, 5 months ago

Uncovering boarding school history makes for monumental task

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They sat inside a dust-covered box that had been stashed away, untouched, for years: black-and-white photographs of Apache students who were among the first sent to a New Mexico boarding school bankrolled by East Coast parishioners and literary fans. The effort spanned more than a century and is now the focus of what will be a massive …

Uncovering boarding school history makes for monumental task
3 years, 5 months ago

Uncovering boarding school history makes for monumental task

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Adjunct history professor Larry Larrichio said he stumbled upon …

What will a US probe into Indigenous boarding schools uncover?
3 years, 5 months ago

What will a US probe into Indigenous boarding schools uncover?

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, July 13 at 19:30 GMT: Beginning in the 19th century, the US government funded a system of boarding schools where hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families, taught to shun their cultural heritage and assimilate to white Christian customs. The investigation’s announcement followed recent discoveries of nearly 1,000 secret graves at three former …

US to review Native American boarding schools’ dark history
3 years, 6 months ago

US to review Native American boarding schools’ dark history

Associated Press  

The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of policies that over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, U.S. “To address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools and to promote spiritual …

US to review history of Indigenous boarding schools: Deb Haaland
3 years, 6 months ago

US to review history of Indigenous boarding schools: Deb Haaland

Al Jazeera  

Interior Secretary launches probe into US practices over 150 years to wipe out Native American tribal identity and culture. The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of the institutions, which across the decades forced hundreds of thousands of …

Remains of 215 Children Found at Closed Canada Indigenous Boarding School
3 years, 6 months ago

Remains of 215 Children Found at Closed Canada Indigenous Boarding School

News 18  

The remains of 215 children have been discovered on the grounds of a former boarding school set up more than a century ago to assimilate Canada’s indigenous peoples, according to a local tribe. A specialist used ground-penetrating radar to confirm the remains of the students who attended the school near Kamloops, British Columbia, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc tribe said in …

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