{"id":34081,"date":"2022-07-02T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/murkowski-time-to-come-to-terms-with-the-dark-legacy-of-indian-boarding-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T13:40:57","slug":"murkowski-time-to-come-to-terms-with-the-dark-legacy-of-indian-boarding-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/murkowski-time-to-come-to-terms-with-the-dark-legacy-of-indian-boarding-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski: \u201ctime to come to terms with the dark legacy of Indian boarding schools\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured: Senator Lisa Murkowski (left) with Ms. Liz La quen n\u00e1ay Medicine Crow at SCIA Hearing on June 22, 2022<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 This week, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) held an oversight hearing on \u201cVolume 1 of the Department of the Interior\u2019s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report\u201d and a legislative hearing to receive testimony on S. 2907, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Vice Chairman of SCIA, provided opening remarks acknowledging the dark legacy of the Indian boarding school era, the need to address those past injustices, and support processes that bring healing to survivors, their families, and communities. The Department of the Interior\u2019s release of volume one of its ongoing investigation<\/a> is an important first step, but Congress also needs to act. Senator Murkowski is co-leading legislation, S. 2907, to establish a formal commission to complement the Interior Department\u2019s Initiative, to further investigate, document, and address the impacts of Indian boarding schools.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is long past time for the United States to come to terms with the dark and terrible legacy of Indian Boarding Schools. These boarding schools attempted to \u2018break\u2019 Native children in order to quickly assimilate them into the dominant white culture. As part of this breaking process, Native children were stripped of their identity, language, and culture, often forcibly. Many of these students never returned home,\u201d said Vice Chairman Murkowski. <\/strong>\u201cLast September, on the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, I had the honor of speaking on the Senate floor to recognize and remember the children who attended these schools. The stories are terrible, but they are not isolated to Alaska. Instead, they are very similar to many Native children\u2019s stories that are just beginning to be recounted. Alaska\u2019s neighbor to the east, Canada, is dealing with its own history and legacy of Indian Boarding Schools. The idea of a Truth and Healing Commission to help address and heal from such atrocities has been implemented in Canada and serves as an example we can learn from, which is why I am co-leading S. 2907 to establish a formal truth and healing commission in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vice Chairman Murkowski invited Ms. Liz La quen n\u00e1ay Medicine Crow, President and CEO of the First Alaskans Institute, to testify at the SCIA hearing. Medicine Crow is Haida and Ling\u00edt from Kake, Alaska, and an enrolled Tribal Citizen of the Organized Village of Kake.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Pictured: Senator Lisa Murkowski (left) with Ms. Liz La quen n\u00e1ay Medicine Crow at SCIA Hearing on June 22, 2022 \u00a0 WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 This week, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) held an oversight hearing on \u201cVolume 1 of the Department of the Interior\u2019s Federal Indian Boarding <\/p>\n

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