U.S. to review Native American boarding schools dark history By Spectrum News Staff & Associated Press Nationwide PUBLISHED 3:30 PM ET Jun. 25, 2021 PUBLISHED June 25, 2021 @3:30 PM
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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 policies that over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced this week.
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U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday the country will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools
To understand why it’s important to support healing-focused approaches to structural racism, philanthropy should take time to learn the horrible history of government-sanctioned boarding schools designed to obliterate Indigenous cultures.
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Boozhoo, relatives. A lot of news out there, especially with the recent discovery of 751 unmarked graves at another residential school in Canada (more below).
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland this week released plans to address the U.S.’s fraught history with federally run residential schools aimed at assimilating Indigenous children into white Western culture.