"Since his inauguration, it has become all too plausible that the American public will forget what we have learned about our country’s #forcedAssimilation of #NativeChildren. #Trump is taking the United States on a historical amnesia tour, suppressing and rewriting our past and overlooking tribal sovereignty."
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Serious Reservations | Kristen Martin
The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.
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A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America | KPFA
Guest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. She is the recipient of several awards for her journalism and is the author of Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.
KPFA"At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of #IndigenousChildren in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald #Trump’s administration."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-makes-major-cuts-093504202.html
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeBoardingSchools #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools #ColonialViolence #USpol #USpolitics #NEH

Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects
At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in...
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An Apology meaning What? The United States Violent Legacy of Operating Native American Boarding Schools
On October 25th, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their
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