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Native America Calling: ‘Acknowledge, Apologize, Repudiate’ for Indian boarding schools
Thursday, August 1, 2024
DOI report on boarding schools: “Acknowledge, Apologize, Repudiate”
For the first time, the United States is owning up to its role in the deplorable treatment of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children at Indian Boarding Schools over more than a century.
The second and final report from the U.S. Department of the Interior documents the deaths of nearly 1,000 children at boarding schools—many in collaboration with Catholic and other Christian institutions. The report includes distressing testimony collected at public meetings around the country from boarding school survivors and their relatives, detailing the personal costs of the government’s attempts to eradicate Native cultures and languages.
The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative recommends the federal government not only formally apologize, but also establish a path and funding to account for the wrongs and the continuing harm resulting from it.
Guests on Native America Calling
Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community), Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the Interior
Ben Barnes (Shawnee Tribe), Chief of the Shawnee Tribe, headquartered in Oklahoma, and board member for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
Gwen Carr (Cayuga), executive director of the Carlisle Indian School Project
Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), publisher and editor of Native News Online
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