Indian Residential Schools

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• SOURCE: Arizona Public Media
  5/14/2023
  

  Anita Yellowhair, Survivor of Arizona Boarding School, Shares Story after 60 Years

  Anita Yellowhair was taken from the Navajo reservation in Arizona to the Intermountain Indian School, the largest of the boarding schools in the United States, intended to separate children from indigenous ways of life. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/14/2022
  

  Report Shows Church-State Collusion on US Native Residential Schools

  The Interior Department report, quoting a 1969 Senate investigation, acknowledges that “federal policy toward the Indian was based on the desire to dispossess him of his land. Education policy was a function of our land policy.”

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/4/2021
  

  Nevada Governor Apologizes for State's Role in Indigenous Schools

  "Descendants of Paiute, Washoe and Shoshone people who attended the Stewart School during the 90 years it was in operation told stories of bounties being offered to bring Native children to the school; of students attempting to run away due to starvation; and of extreme overcrowding in dormitories."

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• SOURCE: Indian Country Today
  8/27/2021
  

  "Where Else are Our Children?": Paiute Children Believed Buried Under Utah School

  "The bodies of Paiute children are likely buried below summer grasses at the site of an Indigenous boarding school they were forced to attend in Panguitch, Utah tribal leaders and history experts say."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/12/2021
  

  How Native Students Fought Back against Abuse and Assimilation at US Boarding Schools

  by Sarah Klotz

  Young Native students like Ernest Knocks Off were not passive victims of forced assimiliation in Indian residential schools; they fought – in his case, to his death – to retain the language and culture the schools sought to expunge.

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• SOURCE: KELO
  7/28/2021
  

  The Hiawatha Asylum: The Threat Behind Indian Boarding Schools

  “People vanished out of boarding schools; people went to jail and didn’t come back. People didn’t know where their relatives were, so it’s still a shock. It’s like finding out you had somebody in your family who was in a concentration camp."

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• SOURCE: The Frontier
  7/21/2021
  

  The Job of Honoring the Dead at an Oklahoma Native School has Fallen to the Alumni

  "Students who died at boarding schools didn’t receive proper burials in accordance with tribal traditions, said Gordon Yellowman, director of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ language and culture program."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/30/2021
  

  My Relatives Went to a Catholic School for Native Children. It was a Place of Horrors

  by Nick Estes

  The discovery of mass graves at the site of a Canadian residential school for indigenous children should prompt the United States to investigate abuse at similar schools. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/26/2021
  

  With Discovery of Unmarked Graves, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Reckoning

  The discoveries of the remains of hundreds of First Nations children at the sites of boarding schools intended to separate them from indigenous language and culture are forcing Canadians to confront the brutality of the nation's history.