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US to review history of Indigenous boarding schools: Deb Haaland

US to review history of Indigenous boarding schools: Deb Haaland

US to review history of Indigenous boarding schools: Deb Haaland
Jun 22, 2021 57 secs

The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of the institutions, which across the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday.

The boys’ dormitory at Lac du Flambeau in northern Wisconsin, built in 1895, is a remnant and reminder of the Government Boarding School there, which took young native Americans from their families and prevented them from speaking their parents’ language [Courtesy: Creative Commons]Starting with the Indian Civilization Act of 1819, the United States enacted laws and policies to establish and support Indian boarding schools across the nation.

She cited statistics from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, which reported that by 1926, more than 80 percent of Indigenous school-age children were attending boarding schools that were run either by the federal government or religious organisations.

Calls for probe come after a mass grave of 215 Indigenous children was discovered at a residential school last month.

Egerton Ryerson statue toppled after rally about discovery of 215 Indigenous children’s remains at residential school.

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