Posted on May 22, 2022
Haaland seeks healing for Native American boarding school survivors
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The Interior Department found that the U.S. operated or actively supported more than 400 American Indian boarding schools between 1819 and 1969 – a history that affects the agency's own leader.
Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, tells NPR's All Things Considered that she had grandparents who were taken from their homes and placed in these schools.
"[Those are] formidable years in a child's life," she says. "It's devastating. It's important that our country realizes and understands this history because I think it's important for every single American to know what happened."
The Interior Department found that the U.S. operated or actively supported more than 400 American Indian boarding schools between 1819 and 1969 – a history that affects the agency's own leader.
Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, tells NPR's All Things Considered that she had grandparents who were taken from their homes and placed in these schools.
"[Those are] formidable years in a child's life," she says. "It's devastating. It's important that our country realizes and understands this history because I think it's important for every single American to know what happened."
Haaland seeks healing for Native American boarding school survivors
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My grandfather was taken from the Menominee reservation and sent to an Indian School some 800-900 miles away. His hair was cut off and he was required to speak English. When school completed, the Indian Service (e.g., the BIA) sent him to Oklahoma, to the Kiowa Tribe, instead of home to his own people.
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