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Schools cause a loss of culture and language. They talked about ways congress could better assist tribal nations in sharing this history and repairing the damage by removing children from their parents. This hearing is over two hours. Sen. Schatz good afternoon, welcome to the committees oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interiors federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative report and a legislative hearing on s2907. A bill to establish a truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School policies in the United States. The Indian Boarding School era was a dark period in our nations history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. American indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. As the Department Report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools with a primary goal in mind, the forcible assimilation of native children into western ways of life. These schools were key tools for suppressing native cultures and l
Sen. Schatz good afternoon, welcome to the committees oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interiors federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative report and a legislative hearing on s2907. A bill to establish a truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School policies in the United States. The Indian Boarding School era was a dark period in our nations history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. American indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. As the Department Report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools with a primary goal in mind, the forcible assimilation of native children into western ways of life. These schools were key tools for suppressing native cultures and languages, separating native children from their families and their homelands, and indoctrinating them to, as the founder of the Carlyle School ominously said, kill the indian and save the man. And that was not an empty promise. The bru
Sen. Schatz good afternoon, welcome to the committees oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interiors federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative report and a legislative hearing on s2907. A bill to establish a truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School policies in the United States. The Indian Boarding School era was a dark period in our nations history and a painful example of how past federal policy failed. American indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians. As the Department Report lays out, the federal government supported boarding schools with a primary goal in mind, the forcible assimilation of native children into western ways of life. These schools were key tools for suppressing native cultures and languages, separating native children from their families and their homelands, and indoctrinating them to, as the founder of the Carlyle School ominously said, kill the indian and save the man. And that was not an empty promise. The bru
The third White House Tribal Nations Summit of the Biden-Harris administration is underway at the Department of the Interior in the nation's capital. Hundreds of tribal leaders from across the United States are in attendance, along with leaders of national Native American organizations, including the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), Native American Rights Fund (NARF), National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), and the National Indian Child Welfare Association. U.S. Department of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) addressed the attendees virtually because she was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Monday and is isolating in compliance with CDC guidelines.