Let wait for further investigation of each and every school.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announces investigation into 'unspoken traumas' at US Native American boarding schools: Deaths of 40,000 pupils may have been covered up in echo of Canada scandal
By Christopher Eberhart and Sandra Salathe For Dailymail.Com and Reuters00:39 EDT 23 Jun 2021 , updated 01:54 EDT 23 Jun 2021
- Preston McBride, a Dartmouth College scholar, has documented at least 1,000 deaths from 1879 to 1934 at four of the over 500 schools in the United States
- McBride estimates 40,000 children died in these institutions
- US interior secretary Deb Haaland said in a June 22 memo that the US will investigate and create a report to document the deaths and burial grounds
- In her memo, Haaland said most indigenous parents could not visit their children at these schools, where they were abused and killed
- 'Survivors of the traumas of boarding school policies carried their memories into adulthood,' Haaland wrote in her memo
- For over 150 years, Indigenous children were uprooted from their communities and forced into US government-operated schools that focused on assimilation
- Many students were forced to cut their braids, dress in uniforms, speak English and adopt European names
As many as 40,000 Native American children may have died from care at government-run boarding schools around the US, a researcher has claimed, prompting a federal investigation to address the trauma's 'intergenerational impact.'
US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a
June 22 memo that her department will prepare a report that identifies federal boarding school facilities, map out the locations of known and possible student burial sites, and learn the identities and tribal affiliations of the children.
In her memo, Haaland - a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe and first Native American Cabinet Secretary - said most indigenous parents could not visit their children at these schools, where some were abused, killed and buried in unmarked graves.
'Survivors of the traumas of boarding school policies carried their memories into adulthood as they became the aunts and uncles, parents, and grandparents to subsequent generations,' Haaland wrote in her memo.
'The loss of those who did not return left an enduring need in their families for answers that, in many cases, were never provided. Distance, time, and the scattering of school records have made it more difficult, if not impossible, for their families to locate a loved one’s final resting place and bring closure through the appropriate ceremonies.'
US interior secretary Deb Haaland instructed her department to investigate Native American children's deaths in US-run boarding schools and the 'intergenerational impact.'
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