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INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS

Please reach out to the committee leads, Graham Denton and Katybeth Davis to offer your help working for justice for those subjugated to and even murdered by the boarding schools indigenous children were sent to.

Maskwasis Boysis.pdf

ORGANIZATIONS

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Native American Rights Fund

NEWS

‘Historical pattern of disregard’: inside one of the last remaining US Indigenous boarding schools, 12/17/22

Julie Dye receives Potawatomi Economic Gathering Good Path Awards, 12/15/22

Tribal citizens brace for trauma, hope for healing with federal report on boarding schools, 5/26/22

Michigan Governor Whitmer Calls for a Study of State's Indian Boarding Schools, 2/19/22

Michigan Native citizens move to reclaim and preserve Indigenous ways of life, 12/8/21

Native American boarding school survivors speak out, 8/22/21

Michigan's ties to horrors of native boarding schools run deep, span generations, 8/13/21

Canada: at least 160 more unmarked graves found in British Columbia, 8/12/21

‘Children did die here’: Michigan’s Indigenous boarding schools, 8/1/21

Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding Schools, 7/19/21

Saginaw Chippewa tribe uncovers death records of 227 Indigenous children, 7/15/21

How Thousands of Indigenous Children Vanished in Canada, 7/15/21

More Than 160 Unmarked Graves Found At Former Residential School in British Columbia, 7/13/21

New federal investigation focuses on graves at NW Indian boarding schools, 7/5/21

Federal probe of American Indian boarding schools reflects dark chapter in U.S. history, 7/4/21

As recently discovered unmarked Indigenous graves in Canada nears 1,000, activists demand justice, 7/3/21

Indian Boarding School Survivors Take Action at Cathedral of Saint Paul, 7/3/21

Enduring trauma: Arizona's Indigenous boarding schools will be investigated, Interior announces, 7/1/21

U.S. to Search Former Native American Schools for Children’s Remains, 6/23/21

Death by Civilization, 3/8/19

American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many, 5/12/08

Tolani Lake School children and staff; some wearing fire helmets and some standing on bed of fire engine in front of Window Rock fire station. ca 1940