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Newly found unmarked graves for Native children are a dark reminder of an ongoing legal battle
Young Hopi Indian girl standing outside, Oraibi, Arizona, ca.1900 Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This past month hundreds of unmarked graves of Native children have been found at two separate residential schools in Canada. Unfortunately, the United States has its own history with residential schools and removal of Native children, amounting to cultural genocide. These practices supported weakening the Native population and tribal sovereignty to serve US interests of stealing land from indigenous tribes. The discovery of these graves are a cruel reminder of the tragic treatment of Native-American children, which should remind us of the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, which is currently going through legal challenges.
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland recently announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative in part, to address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools.
The United States is about to undertake a national investigation into hundreds of American Indian boarding schools that from the 1800s through the 20th century served to kill the Indian to save the man, according to one school s founder.
On June 22,
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative in an address to the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) during a virtual conference. It came weeks after the discovery of 215 Indigenous children s remains were found at a school site in British Columbia.
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