{"id":13483,"date":"2021-06-25T19:42:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:09:15","slug":"national-native-american-boarding-school-healing-coalition-supports-federal-review-of-indian-boarding-school-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/25\/national-native-american-boarding-school-healing-coalition-supports-federal-review-of-indian-boarding-school-era\/","title":{"rendered":"National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition supports federal review of Indian boarding school era"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announces a new federal initiative to address the harmful legacy of the Indian boarding school era on June 22, 2021.”Ou…<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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Indianz.Com Video: Secretary Deb Haaland: Federal Indian Boarding School Truth Initiative<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n
NABS Supports Federal Indian Boarding School Investigation and Calls For A Congressional Truth Commission<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nThe following is the text of a June 25, 2021, press release from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition<\/a>.<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) would like to express deep gratitude for the leadership of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose announcement this week of a Department of Interior Federal Indian Boarding School Truth Initiative marks the first major federal investigation into the U.S. government\u2019s Indian boarding school policy. NABS believes this investigation will provide critical resources to address the ongoing historical trauma of Indian boarding schools. Our organization has been pursuing truth, justice, and healing for boarding school survivors, descendants, and tribal communities.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nNABS continues to call for Congress to pass the \u201cTruth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act\u201d and is working closely with Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u2019s office to reintroduce the bill this summer. On Thursday, June 24, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the oldest and largest national organization of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, approved a resolution calling for a federal commission to build on the Department of Interior\u2019s initiative. Both the Department of Interior\u2019s initiative and the resolution from NCAI request that boarding school sites be examined to identify known and possible student burial sites and the number of children interred at these locations. \r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThis federal initiative comes at a critical time when the discovery of our lost children in unmarked graves in Kamloops, Saskatchewan and other parts of Canada, as well as the repatriation of our children from Carlisle Indian Boarding School, is revealing the deep grieving and unhealed wounds of the boarding school era\u2019s impacts on our families and relatives,\u201d said NABS\u2019s CEO, Christine Diindiisi McCleave (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe).\r\n

<\/p>\r\nNABS has identified 367 historically assimilative Indian boarding schools that operated in the U.S. between approximately 1870 until 1970. However, NABS has only been able to locate records from 38% of the boarding schools that we know of. Because the records have never been fully examined, it is still unknown how many Native American children attended, died, or went missing from Indian boarding schools. We believe that the time is now for truth and healing. We have a right to know what happened to the children who never returned home from Indian boarding schools. \r\n

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Related Stories<\/div>Navajo Nation hails federal investigation into Indian boarding school era<\/a> (June 23, 2021)
National Congress of American Indians welcomes boarding school initiative<\/a> (June 23, 2021)
Secretary Deb Haaland: Federal Indian Boarding School Truth Initiative<\/a> (June 22, 2021)
\u2018Our communities are still mourning\u2019: Secretary Haaland announces federal Indian boarding school initiative<\/a> (June 22, 2021)
\u2018I know that this process will be painful\u2019: Secretary Haaland announces Indian boarding school review<\/a> (June 22, 2021)
Secretary Haaland addresses National Congress of American Indians<\/a> (June 22, 2021)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has identified 367 historically assimilative Indian boarding schools that operated in the U.S. between approximately 1870 until 1970.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,20,1,14,31],"tags":[117,52,418,1728,88,118,138,1729,7,102],"class_list":["post-13483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","category-press-release","tag-bia","tag-bie","tag-boarding-schools","tag-christine-diinsiisi-mccleave","tag-deb-haaland","tag-doi","tag-meetings","tag-nabs","tag-ncai","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/25\/nabs.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-3vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}