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Native America Calling: Revisiting the idea of reparations (September 3, 2021)
Australia is paying out close to $379 million directly to Indigenous peoples who suffered from the government’s forced removal of children from families. 
Advocating for our tribal nations and our people through participation in the political process is one of the most important choices we can make.
News21: Shawnee Tribe works to preserve language amid COVID-19 (August 18, 2021)
The Shawnee language is in danger of becoming extinct, but COVID-19 and a switch to remote education open the door for revival. 
NDN Collective: Native people subjected to ‘erasure’ in South Dakota (August 16, 2021)
NDN Collective joins the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition’s call for public comment on the blatant erasure of Oceti Sakowin history in newly proposed social studies standards. 
Harold Frazier: Native history ‘gutted’ in school curriculum (August 16, 2021)
They have tried to exterminate or assimilate us and they have failed. 
The sordid history of the U.S. effort to bring Native children into boarding schools is, quite frankly, staggering.
Arne Vainio: We all have an opportunity to redeem (August 12, 2021)
All our generations exist in us and one day our ancestors will carry us home. 
Aaron Payment: Investing in infrastructure in Indian Country (August 4, 2021)
The American Jobs Plan will bring an additional $12 billion in much-needed infrastructure to Indian Country. 
With both grief and relief, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe welcomed the return of nine children who died at the Carlisle Indian School.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts funeral services in Mission, South Dakota, for nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
Photos: Lakota children spend final morning away from homelands (July 19, 2021)
The Indian community came together in Sioux City, Iowa, to welcome nine Lakota children who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school. 
Nine Lakota children began their last morning away from their homelands at the base of a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in Wagner, South Dakota, for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in Sioux City, Iowa, for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
After a long process driven by youth, nine Lakota children who died at one of the most infamous institutions of the Indian boarding school era are finally returning home.
Grassroots treaty rights events on Independence Day featured a peaceful but spectacular civil disobedience action.
As Natives, we have endured and survived the most atrocious, violent, and sadistic European immigrant vengeance.
By 1900, 20,000 children were in Indian boarding schools. By 1925, that number had more than tripled, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Religious-based boarding schools are an enduring symbol of forced assimilation of Native children in the United States and Canada.
Officials in New Mexico’s largest city plan to work with tribal and Native leaders following the disappearance of a plaque commemorating the burials of Indian boarding school students.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation acquires boarding school site (June 30, 2021)
The history of Native boarding schools in this country is complicated and includes many tragic abuses that must be investigated in depth.
Native America Calling: June in the news (June 29, 2021)
Join Native America Calling for its monthly recap of the top news in Indian Country, including the announcement of the Indian boarding school investigation. 
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has identified 367 historically assimilative Indian boarding schools that operated in the U.S. between approximately 1870 until 1970.
“As Navajo people, we all have parents, grandparents, and other elders who were subjected to boarding schools and that has contributed to many of the modern-day monsters in our society,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.
“The National Congress of American Indians commends the Department of Interior for taking the essential first step of providing an official account of the atrocities that Native children experienced during the boarding school era,” said President Fawn Sharp.
The Department of the Interior is undertaking its first-ever review of Indian boarding school sites and the Indian children who went there. Watch the announcement from Secretary Deb Haaland.
“The federal policies that attempted to wipe out Native identity, language and culture continued to manifest in the pain our communities face,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies.
Secretary Deb Haaland is addressing the National Congress of American Indians for the first time since taking over the Department of the Interior.
I learned that it was not good to be an “Indian.” We were supposed to forget our language and culture.
Give us back our lands so that we might be restored to the embrace of the earth.
Two artists who admit they aren’t enrolled in any tribal nation have still managed to find their way into museums and educational institutions.
Reconciliation Rising: Nancy Carlson (May 4, 2021)
Since 1990, Nancy Carlson and other non-Native residents in a small Nebraska community have hosted annual reunions for survivors of the Genoa Indian School. 
Tim Giago: A wacipi that hid many secrets (May 3, 2021)
Every Lakota knows where we have been and now we are struggling to find out where we are going. 
Horse ride honors life of Native educator Dorothy Kiyukan (March 31, 2021)
Dorothy “Scootie” Kiyukan Ziegler, who passed away in January 2021, was passionate about Native youth, culture and horses. 
“The acknowledgement of the suffering and abuse while honoring survivors’ resiliency is long overdue,” said South Dakota Rep. Peri Pourier, a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
Tim Giago: Racist law harms survivors of Indian boarding schools (March 8, 2021)
I am a survivor of the Holy Rosary Indian Mission Boarding School. I do not want to be honored. 
Please join a virtual memorial in memory of Albert Hale, a former president of the Navajo Nation who died due to complications from COVID-19.
Gaylord News: Indian boarding school era still lives on for many (January 18, 2021)
About 8,000 students attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, whose founder had a motto: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” 
Native Sun News Today: City changes name of ‘Soo’ road (December 22, 2020)
A road that was once associated with the Rapid City Indian Boarding School has been renamed.
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