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For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government has launched an official investigation to account for the tens of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native & Native Hawaiian children who were forced to attend Indian boarding schools.

Story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/u-s-department-of-interior-halfway-through-road-to-healing-tour/

U.S. Department of Interior Halfway through “Road to Healing” Tour - UNICORN RIOT

Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona – On Friday, Jan. 20, the United States Department of Interior hosted a fourth community listening session on its year-long “Road to Healing” tour. The tour is a result of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative launched by U.S. Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland within months of her confirmation by […]

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Feb 5, 2023 at 11:06pmWeb
Show threadMyMiloCat+MydogNoodlesFeb 5, 2023
@UnicornRiot centuries to make a tiny step - may this teach and heal
Show threadanubis2814Feb 5, 2023
@UnicornRiot We had to wait to have an actual native person as secretary of interior before we could have this.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Feb 5, 2023
@UnicornRiot 😪😪😪😪 And what will they do with the findings?
Show threadInfiniteOneFeb 5, 2023
@UnicornRiot American history needs to be told in its factual entirety. The violence, trauma, and death perpetrated by what American’s have come to love as “their” country, wasn’t/isn’t theirs. Or Hall I say mine/ours.
Show threadJoby (chaotic good)Feb 5, 2023
@UnicornRiot I'm from New Mexico, and there's a reason we were all really happy to see Deb Haaland become secretary of the interior.
Show threadGrandpa DonFeb 6, 2023
@joby @UnicornRiot
I'm from all over and pure western euro back centuries and I was ecstatic.
Show threadAnne Fausto SterlingFeb 6, 2023
@UnicornRiot The underlying #science used to back up the policy of sending these children to boarding school involved the belief that the surroundings in which a child was raised made a permanent impression on them; the settler colonials wanted indigenous people to become white & accept colonial dominion. The only way for that to happen was to erase indigenous language and culture by removing them from home. It was ghastly in so many ways. Donald Trump did not invent this approach.
Show threadCatherine ShinnersFeb 6, 2023
@UnicornRiot the children in this photo. My god