Uncovering boarding school history makes for monumental task

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For more than a century, Native American children were removed from their homes and shipped off to boarding schools in an attempt to assimilate them into white society. The federal government is now seeking to uncover the troubled legacy of those schools.

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and estimates hundreds of thousands of Native American children passed through them between 1869 and the 1960s.

Of the schools identified by the group so far, she said records have been found for only 40% of them. The whereabouts of the rest are unknown. In the United States, the Indian Civilization Act of 1819 and other laws and policies were enacted to establish and support Indian boarding schools across the nation. For over 150 years, Indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced into boarding schools that focused on assimilation.

Trujillo said while her grandmother made it home, unlike other children, that experience shaped who she was. “The biggest part of the work starts with the truth, and that includes not only truth from the federal government in this case and the churches that ran the schools, but hearing the truth from the perspective of the people who experienced it, listening to the testimony of survivors and descendants and understanding the full scope and impact of these experiences,” she said.

The Interior Department said it’s working on ways to “create a safe space,” such as a hotline or special website where people can share information about the schools and seek resources.

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gladstein Usually when I want to know how bad a crime was, I ask the criminal who committed it how bad it was

Please stop calling them schools.

Like does anyone really care 😂😂😂😂

Canada’s national shame Purpose as clearly stated was to “kill the indian”in them through genocide, horrible sexual abuse and destroying their tradirions, oral and written languages… and generations to follow

not loving how this headline distances the government from the residential schools that they … [checks notes] … created, funded and ran

About damned time!

This is not the kind of history the white man wants taught in suburbia. John Wayne....good vs evil scalping injuns.....bad.... That's the bulls*** history they want .....

*Christian

It’s always beyond unsettling to recognize the untaught history of America and the genocide we unleashed on the population !

Were they also dumped in unmarked graves? 😔

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