{"id":23799,"date":"2021-07-02T05:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/boarding-schools-a-blight-on-america\/"},"modified":"2021-07-02T05:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:27:23","slug":"boarding-schools-a-blight-on-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/boarding-schools-a-blight-on-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Boarding schools: A blight on America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0In Canada this\u00a0past\u00a0May,\u00a0the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School\u00a0brought\u00a0past\u00a0Indigenous\u00a0traumas into the international spotlight.\u00a0Yesterday, over\u00a0700\u00a0more\u00a0unmarked graves were found on the grounds of the former\u00a0Marieval\u00a0Indian Residential School in Canada.<\/p>\n

Boarding schools and residential schools are a tragic thread in history that the United States and Canada share: The United States Government Indian Boarding School Policy authorized the forced removal of hundreds of thousands of Native children, as young as 5 years old, relocating them from their homes in Tribal communities to one of the 367 Indian Boarding Schools across 30 States. Between 1869 and the 1960s, the United States federal government stole Native children from their families to destroy their indigenous identities, beliefs, and traditional languages to assimilate them into White American culture through federally funded Christian-run schools.<\/p>\n

Today,\u00a0National Council of Urban Indian Health Chief Executive Officer Francys Crevier (Algonquin) released the following statement in response to these recent discoveries:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am devastated to hear the discovery of mass graves of our children, but tragically, I am not surprised. The National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) exists because of the historic oppression like this that forced relocation of our people by the United States (and Canadian) governments, which included ripping our children from their families and placing them in federally funded boarding schools in their attempt to \u201ckill the Indian, save the man.\u201d Indian Country\u2019s social determinants of health<\/a> demonstrate the connection to the historical trauma inflicted by these governments that caused tremendous health consequences for our people \u2013 most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic taking the lives of many of our relatives. At NCUIH, we are charged with holding the US government to its trust and treaty responsibility of providing health care for all Native people.<\/p>\n

The atrocities Native children experienced during the boarding school era are marked by years of pain as Indigenous communities were forced to suffer in silence. These long-standing intergenerational trauma cycles are, unfortunately, nothing new to Native\u00a0people.\u00a0 Federal policies in the United States and Canada attempted\u00a0to destroy Native identity, culture, and language and continue to\u00a0be a cause of suffering in\u00a0our communities.\u00a0For centuries of historic trauma, this process has been a long and challenging journey for our relatives.<\/p>\n

With that, we applaud Secretary\u00a0Deb Haaland, the first Native American cabinet holder,\u00a0for beginning the conversation to hold the United States government that created these boarding schools accountable through the\u00a0Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0Department of the Interior<\/a>\u00a0will\u00a0identify\u00a0boarding school sites, locations of known and\u00a0possible student\u00a0burial sites\u00a0located\u00a0at or near school\u00a0facilities and\u00a0identify\u00a0the children and their tribal affiliations to bring them home to their families.<\/p>\n

As the effort continues to bring these children home, we are reminded of the resilience of Native people\u00a0and ask our relatives to lean on each other as more information from the boarding school era is revealed to the public.\u00a0While Natives have been well aware of the government\u2019s violation of\u00a0basic\u00a0human\u00a0rights and genocide of our people, it is important for the United States and Canada to finally take responsibility for these horrific actions.<\/p>\n

At NCUIH, we are charged with holding the US government to its trust and treaty responsibility of providing health care for all Native people.\u00a0Our work will continue as we fight to make up for centuries of oppression and needless deaths of our people \u2013 including our own children. The United States government can begin to rectify their actions by finally honoring its trust and treaty responsibilities to our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the history of Native American Boarding Schools, please\u00a0visit\u00a0The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

Recommended Readings:<\/h3>\n

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Children Left Behind by Tim Giago, Amazon.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

Pipestone My Life in an Indian Boarding School<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boarding School Seasons American Indian Families, 1900-1940<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>They Called Me Uncivilized: The Memoir of an Everyday Lakota Man from Wounded Knee<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Voice in Her Tribe: A Navajo Woman\u2019s Own Story<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2013\u00a0In Canada this\u00a0past\u00a0May,\u00a0the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School\u00a0brought\u00a0past\u00a0Indigenous\u00a0traumas into the international spotlight.\u00a0Yesterday, over\u00a0700\u00a0more\u00a0unmarked graves were found on the grounds of the former\u00a0Marieval\u00a0Indian Residential School in Canada. Boarding schools and residential schools are a tragic thread in history that the United States and Canada share: <\/p>\n

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