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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has wrapped up the final stop on the Department’s “Road to Healing” tour. In June of 2021, Haaland launched the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to shed light on the traumatic history of government-backed Native American boarding schools.
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Survivors of government-backed Native American boarding schools and their descendants shared their experiences as U.S. officials made a final stop in Montana on a yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society.
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The new list from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition brings the total number of schools used to assimilate Indigenous children into white society to 523.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has launched a project to document stories of Indigenous people who attended federal boarding schools.
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A group focused on shedding more light on the troubled legacy of boarding schools where Indigenous children were stripped of their culture and language as part of assimilation efforts released a new interactive map that includes dozens of additional schools in the U.S. and Canada.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting an effort to record oral histories and digitize records on Indigenous boarding schools.
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Native American boarding school survivors of abuse and their descendants shared memories and tears in Arizona on U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's yearlong “Road to Healing” initiative.
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be in Phoenix and on the Navajo Nation this weekend on the latest stop of “The Road to Healing Tour.” It’s a year-long cross-country initiative to give Indigenous survivors and descendants of the federal Indian boarding school system an opportunity to tell their stories.
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Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools. The pontiff says the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.
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Indigenous groups from Canada who visited the Vatican Museums' Anima Mundi Ethnological Collection this spring say they saw some items there that they want to be returned.