Advocate Portia Kay^nthos Skenandore-Wheelock says some things in the report did not come as huge news, but it was surprising to learn how deliberately the boarding school policy was aimed at taking Indigenous lands.
Boarding schools report documenting Native deaths, abuse and loss of culture is a good first step, advocates sayInterior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department’s press conference on its federal boarding school investigation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
A report on Native American boarding schools from the U.S. Interior Department has prompted calls for Congress to do more to investigate the deaths, abuse and loss of culture that occurred at the schools.as just the beginning of the federal government’s attempts to document the systemic and forced assimilation of Indigenous children at boarding schools.