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nations, ensuring this history and repairing the damage done by removing native children from their parents. this senate indian affairs committee hearing is just over two hours. sen. schatz: good aft, welcome to the committee s oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interior s federal indian boarding school initiative investigative report and a legislative hearing on s-2907. 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 nation s 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 ....
sen. schatz: good afternoon, welcome to the committee s oversight hearing on volume one of the department of the interior s federal indian boarding school initiative investigative report and a legislative hearing on s-2907. 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 nation s 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 e ....
Local politicians out here, local leaders and state leaders. Even though theres been a lot of hateful rhetoric and a lot of decisions across the country, its the opposite effect here in the south bay bringing more people together and more groups together. People from all backgrounds wore all the colors of the rainbow and marched through downtown san jose together. It was a colorful symbol of unity not just for those identifying in the lbgtq community, but for anyone who needs a voice and a friend. Down syndrome, special needs, everything like that. Thats a good community. Reporter this mother was here to support transgender youth. Letting our kids know its not a choice. Its how youre born. Were here for you. Equality for everyone. Reporter also others spoke in favor of equal rights protections. Several people here say they were also at saturdays counterprotests to the antisharia law professor who were spreading love and hate against all muslims. There is something thats happening here. ....
Investigating as a hate crime at st. Felicitas church in san leandro. Ktvu Azenith Smith is there joining us with more. Reporter well frank and heather, this statue has been here since 1958 when the school was founded. Its been vandalized before, but never to this extent. I wanted to show you the bullet that hit this statue made out of stone. Eight rounds were fired, one bullet even striking the school. The statue of st. Felicitas sits outside the school baring its name in san leandro. The christian statue now a target of hate. Its very upsetting somebody would come and do such a thing and hurt this statue. My mom heard the gunshots, then we heard the police say get on the ground, get on the ground. Reporter around 2 00 in the afternoon saturday in Broad Daylight Police say a neighbor reported gunfire at st. Felicitas church. There they discovered the suspect had fired ....
Way to fremont not bad. Looking at interstate 880 in oakland, looking good driving past the oracle arena and not a big back up at the bay bridge yet. It is 5 01 am. Today in Orlando Florida and in the bay area, along with the rest of the country, remembering the victims of the deadly pulse nightclub shooting exactly one year ago today 49 people were killed, more than 50 were hurt. The nightclub has been closed ever since, one of the worst Mass Shootings in modern American History. People have put up memorial artwork, photos, Message Boards and honors the victims lives. Today at noon the church bells will ring 49 times, one told for each person killed. The rain did not stop hundreds of gathering last night outside of the shooting scene as they paid their respects ....