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Native America Calling: Federal boarding schools: now what?
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Federal boarding schools: now what?
The U.S. Department of Interior released its much-anticipated report chronicling a century and a half of widespread abuses at federally sanctioned boarding schools.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland now promises a year-long tour of Indian Country, establishing an oral record, from a Native viewpoint, of a devastating period in history.
As important and historic as the DOI report is, how much confidence should Indian Country put into the federal government’s role in mitigating the trauma?
Guests on Native America Calling
endawnis Spears (Dine, Ojibwe, Choctaw and Chickasaw), Tribal Community Member in Residence for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University, co-director of the Upstander Academy, and co-founder of the Akomawt Educational Initiative
Barbara Landis, retired Carlisle Indian School research specialist for the Cumberland County Historical Society
Dr. Samuel Torres (Mexica and Nahua), deputy chief executive officer for the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
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