Haaland calls on US to address legacy of Native American boarding schools [View all]
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the nation's first Native American Cabinet secretary, called on the U.S. to do more to address the legacy of abuse-ridden boarding schools for indigenous children.
In an op-ed for The Washington Post published Friday, Haaland discussed the recent discovery of an unmarked mass grave in Canada containing the remains of 215 indigenous children, near the site of a former so-called residential school.
Haaland calls herself a product of the same "horrific assimilationist policies" in the U.S.
Her great-grandfather, she writes, was forced to attend Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Children at the school were forced to cut their hair and change their names and subjected to corporal punishment for behaviors associated with their own cultures. Founder Richard Henry Pratt coined the slogan "kill the Indian, save the man" for the institution's mission.
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