Native America Calling: Federal boarding schools: now what?

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Federal boarding schools: now what?

The U.S. Department of Interior released its much-anticipated report chronicling a century and a half of widespread abuses at federally sanctioned boarding schools.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland now promises a year-long tour of Indian Country, establishing an oral record, from a Native viewpoint, of a devastating period in history.

As important and historic as the DOI report is, how much confidence should Indian Country put into the federal government’s role in mitigating the trauma?

Secretary Deb Haaland: Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

“For more than a century, tens of thousands of indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced into boarding schools run by the U.S. government,” Secretary Deb Haaland said.

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Guests on Native America Calling

endawnis Spears (Dine, Ojibwe, Choctaw and Chickasaw), Tribal Community Member in Residence for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University, co-director of the Upstander Academy, and co-founder of the Akomawt Educational Initiative

Barbara Landis, retired Carlisle Indian School research specialist for the Cumberland County Historical Society

Dr. Samuel Torres (Mexica and Nahua), deputy chief executive officer for the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition