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Navajo Nation leaders commend Interior Secretary
Haaland’s initiative to investigate federal boarding schools
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Source: Navajo Nation
Office of the President and Vice President
The following is the text of a June 22, 2021, press release from the Navajo Nation Office of President and Vice President.
WINDOW ROCK, Arizona — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer commend U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Debra Haaland’s announcement of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, which is described as a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies. President Nez was notified of the initiative by the Interior Department on Tuesday.
Secretary Haaland directed the Department to prepare a report detailing available historical records, with an emphasis on cemeteries or potential burial sites relating to the federal boarding school program. The initiative was prompted by the recent discovery of 215 unmarked graves by Canada’s Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc First Nation at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, to shed more light on these past traumas.
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