The US Will Look For Unmarked Graves At Former Native American Boarding Schools

[Bootes Void]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/us-indian-boarding-schools-graves

The US will search old federal boarding schools for the unmarked graves of Native American children, Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland said Tuesday, a project that will officially acknowledge the loss of life that has haunted tribal communities for more than 100 years.

The announcement came at the National Congress of American Indians 2021 Mid Year Conference, where Haaland said the Department of Interior will prepare a detailed report using historical government records to identify possible burial sites. Between 1869 and the 1960s, more than 350 federal boarding schools forced thousands of Native American children from their parents to "culturally assimilate" them, and schools continued to operate in the decades after the government handed off control. Some children never returned home.

The project will include identifying records within the department documenting US boarding schools between 1819 to 1969, according to the memo. The department will also reach out to tribal nations, as well as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian organizations, to help process and protect any burial sites that are identified.

The review will include all records of enrollment, history, maps, and statistics of the schools, but the department noted that efforts should pay particular attention to any record that could point to cemeteries or any other burial site.

A detailed report is expected to be completed by April 2, 2022.

[DrScholl]

Pretty soon the "oh no, wokeness/SJW/cancel culture" crowd will be in here finger wagging that this is the sort of thing that will cause Democrats to lose elections. To them this sort of thing was perfectly ok and anyone who says it's not is a crazy Marxist.

[WMS]

The question I will have, is how different, in both absolute and per capita numbers, the numbers will be from the horrors emerging in Canada.*  I am not optimistic either country is going to avoid more horror.

*Is there a thread on the Canadian side of this? The numbers just skyrocketed with yet another mass grave of Native children

[Ferguson97]

Can wait to hear about how this is anti-American from OSR and will cause Democrats to lose 50 House seats from Alben.

[Bootes Void]

The question I will have, is how different, in both absolute and per capita numbers, the numbers will be from the horrors emerging in Canada.*  I am not optimistic either country is going to avoid more horror.

*Is there a thread on the Canadian side of this? The numbers just skyrocketed with yet another mass grave of Native children

They found 751 in Sasketchewan, there's probably still more out there

[WMS]

The question I will have, is how different, in both absolute and per capita numbers, the numbers will be from the horrors emerging in Canada.*  I am not optimistic either country is going to avoid more horror.

*Is there a thread on the Canadian side of this? The numbers just skyrocketed with yet another mass grave of Native children

They found 751 in Sasketchewan, there's probably still more out there

This is an utter national shame for both our countries.

[kingcharlesvii]

As someone who attended one of the few remaining boarding schools still ran by the Bureau of Indian Affairs it is so comforting to know that Sec. Haaland is looking out for us and working to right the wrongs of the past.

There's a really great Oregon Public Broadcasting story regarding the school I attended having student deaths as recently as 2015

opb(dot)org/news/series/chemawa/chemawa-indian-school-student-safety-salem-oregon/

[Damocles]

Good. The United States should at least acknowledge its crimes. We should not forget, hide from, or deny this past. The only thing that will do is exhaust ourselves, and make change impossible. To forget the darker parts of our history is to doom ourselves to repeat it.

That does not mean that you, personally, are responsible for the crimes. It does not mean that you, personally, owe anything to anyone who was victimized by these crimes. What it does mean is that you benefited from these crimes, and that you should be conscious of that fact.

This country produces some of the world’s best and brightest. It also produces some of the world’s most depraved. This is true of any country. It’s your job to discern which is which, and be conscious of one’s own humanity and limits on perception, as well as that of others.

[Badger]

As someone who attended one of the few remaining boarding schools still ran by the Bureau of Indian Affairs it is so comforting to know that Sec. Haaland is looking out for us and working to right the wrongs of the past.

There's a really great Oregon Public Broadcasting story regarding the school I attended having student deaths as recently as 2015

opb(dot)org/news/series/chemawa/chemawa-indian-school-student-safety-salem-oregon/

I'm so sorry, deeply sorry, you went through that experience. It sounds like it was a hellish place.

As the Father of two young boys I become hands shaking livid with rage at the thought of little children dying and being passed in a hole without any reference or Compassion or love whatsoever. The bastards who did this would have treated their deceased family pets better than this.

Those poor poor children. And this doesn't even touch on the underlying reasons why so many of them died....

[HillGoose]

that's very sad that they have to do that, back in the olden days there were clearly some bad ways of thinking which through history you can see what that does and leads to really awful things happening.

hopefully they don't find any mass graves or anything but if they do hopefully the victims can get a proper burial and maybe their families can get some closure