Posted on Aug 28, 2021
Indian Boarding Schools' Traumatic Legacy, And The Fight To Get Native Ancestors Back
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After the remains of more than 1,300 First Nations students were discovered at the former sites of Canada's residential schools earlier this year, the U.S. is now facing its own moment of reckoning with its history of Native American boarding schools. In response to these findings, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (a member of the Pueblo of Laguna) announced a Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to review "the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies."
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, efforts have been underway since 2016 to return the remains of Native children to their proper resting places. Carlisle was home to the first off-reservation Indian boarding school in the U.S. — Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Today, it's an army barracks, home to the US Army War college for senior officers. But from 1879 to 1918, it housed Native students from tribes across America, with the express purpose of assimilating them into American culture.
After the remains of more than 1,300 First Nations students were discovered at the former sites of Canada's residential schools earlier this year, the U.S. is now facing its own moment of reckoning with its history of Native American boarding schools. In response to these findings, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (a member of the Pueblo of Laguna) announced a Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to review "the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies."
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, efforts have been underway since 2016 to return the remains of Native children to their proper resting places. Carlisle was home to the first off-reservation Indian boarding school in the U.S. — Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Today, it's an army barracks, home to the US Army War college for senior officers. But from 1879 to 1918, it housed Native students from tribes across America, with the express purpose of assimilating them into American culture.
Indian Boarding Schools' Traumatic Legacy, And The Fight To Get Native Ancestors Back
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My wife told me about this a long time ago because her uncle used to bury bodies when he was in residential school. Canada is in morning but they don't have any black lives matter Anarchist protest and we don't have the 1619 project forced down our throats even though Upper Canada was part of the same British territory in 1619. I just came back from Washington State and I'm on my third of 14-day quarantine. I don't mind, my boss knows I'm off. I turned in my army gear. I have only two more weeks of training in October and a retirement ceremony.. I will be retired on the first of the year next year.
My wife told me about this a long time ago because her uncle used to bury bodies when he was in residential school. Canada is in morning but they don't have any black lives matter Anarchist protest and we don't have the 1619 project forced down our throats even though Upper Canada was part of the same British territory in 1619. I just came back from Washington State and I'm on my third of 14-day quarantine. I don't mind, my boss knows I'm off. I turned in my army gear. I have only two more weeks of training in October and a retirement ceremony.. I will be retired on the first of the year next year.
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