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Native America Calling: The slow progress toward truth and reconciliation
Friday, July 15, 2022
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The slow progress toward truth and reconciliation
A Michigan non-profit is taking on the task of forming a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help heal from past Indian Boarding School abuses.

The state of Maine previously mounted its own effort to help move on from Native child welfare traumas.

Both are smaller-scale attempts to confront and process past abuses in the absence of a formal federal system to do so.

Theresa Sheldon
Theresa Sheldon, Chief Executive Officer of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, testifies in support of the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies at a hearing of the House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States on May 12, 2022. Photo: House Committee on Natural Resources, Democrats

Guests on Native America Calling
Theresa Sheldon (Tulalip), director of policy and advocacy, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Lacey Kinnart (Chippewa), program and operations coordinator, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

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