by Oui
Fri Oct 25th, 2024 at 03:44:17 AM EST
Biden to issue apology for Native American boarding schools ...
FACT SHEET ... please stick to the script when writing your articles tomorrow ...
President Biden Touts Historic Support for Indian Country and Transformation of the Nation-to-Nation Relationship with Tribal Nations | White House - 24 Oct 2024 |
Tomorrow, at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, President Biden will outline his record of transformative investment in Indian Country and relationships with Tribal Nations, advancing Tribal sovereignty and self-determination, respecting Native cultures, and protecting Indigenous sacred sites.
President Biden and Vice President Harris have taken historic actions to support Indian Country ...
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The Biden-Harris Administration has made honoring Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples central to our conservation agenda, including by restoring and designating multiple new national monuments that honor Tribal Nations by protecting sacred ancestral places and their historically and scientifically important features, designating the first Indigenous-focused national marine sanctuary, directing federal agencies to support First Foods including healthy and abundant native salmon and steelhead, signing over 200 new co-stewardship agreements with Tribes, issuing an updated Sacred Sites MOU and best practices, and implementing a first-of-its kind Indigenous Knowledge guidance.
The President has also sought to have an Administration that reflects the priorities of Indian Country by hiring over 80 Native appointees in historic positions, including the first Native American Cabinet Secretary with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and the first Native American Treasurer of the United States with Chief Lynn Malerba. In addition, the President followed through with his promise to reinstate the annual White House Tribal Nations Summit and the White House Council on Native American Affairs.
Forced Assimilation and Abuse: How US Boarding Schools Devastated Native American Tribes | AP - AFP News |
President Biden is expected to issue an historic apology Friday for the 150-year government effort to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools
The boarding schools, which were run by the US government, were in operation from the early 19th century until the 1970s.
The report found at least 973 children died at these schools, many of which were far from their original homes.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history, was a major force behind the investigation that produced the report.
The Native American boarding schools run by the US government -- such as this one in Genoa, Nebraska -- were in operation from the early 19th century until the 1970s (Photo credit: Stacy Revere)
"For more than a century, tens of thousands of Indigenous children as young as four years old, were taken from their families and communities and forced into boarding schools," Haaland told reporters. "This includes my own family."
"For decades, this terrible chapter was hidden from our history books," she continued. "But now our administration's work will ensure that no one will ever forget."
The apology follows formal declarations in Canada, where thousands of children died at similar boarding schools,
[The U.S. boarding schools stood model for the horrors in Canada for its Indian boarding schools and thousands of ill treated and deaths of children under its care - Oui]
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Canadians copying indigenous project established after the Civil War in the US
Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald commissioned journalist and politician Nicholas Flood Davin to study industrial schools for Indigenous children in the United States.
Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds | Ottawa - 14th March 1879 |
Report based on study President Ulysses S. Grant to assimilate Indian tribes through Peace Commission of 1869.
Most irresponsible and moronic comment ever heard from Canadian PM Trudeau ...
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[white-washing the guilt of Puritan America and the "exceptionalism" its leaders thrive on today for forever wars. Today we call it fascism and genocide. - Oui]
... and other countries around the world where historic abuses of Indigenous populations are increasingly being recognized.
In a statement, the White House said the apology was being issued in order to "remember and teach our full history, even when it is painful."
The Imagine a Canada 2024-2025 program invites Canadian youth from K-G12 and CÉGEP to envision a Canada reconciled
"Ka-kí-kiskéyihtétan óma, namoya kinwés maka aciyowés pohko óma óta ka-hayayak wasétam askihk, ékwa ka-kakwéy miskétan kiskéyihtamowin, iyinísiwin, kistéyitowin, mina nánisitotatowin kakiya ayisiniwak, ékosi óma kakiya ka-wahkotowak."[Cree proverb]
"Realize that we as human beings have been put on this earth for only a short time and that we must use this time to gain wisdom, knowledge, respect and the understanding for all human beings since we are all relatives."
Residential School History | NCTR - Manitoba |
For a period of more than 150 years, First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation children were taken from their families and communities to attend schools which were often located far from their homes. More than 150,000 children attended Indian Residential Schools. Many never returned.
The first church-run Indian Residential School was opened in 1831. By the 1880s, the federal government had adopted an official policy of funding residential schools across Canada. The explicit intent was to separate these children from their families and cultures. In 1920, the Indian Act made attendance at Indian Residential Schools compulsory for Treaty-status children between the ages of 7 and 15.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) concluded that residential schools were "a systematic, government- sponsored attempt to destroy Aboriginal cultures and languages and to assimilate Aboriginal peoples so that they no longer existed as distinct peoples." The TRC characterized this intent as "cultural genocide."
The schools were often underfunded and overcrowded. The quality of education was substandard. Children were harshly punished for speaking their own languages. Staff were not held accountable for how they treated the children.
We know that thousands of students suffered physical and sexual abuse at residential schools. All suffered from loneliness and a longing to be home with their families.
The schools hurt the children. The schools also hurt their families and their communities. Children were deprived of healthy examples of love and respect. The distinct cultures, traditions, languages, and knowledge systems of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples were eroded by forced assimilation.
The damages inflicted by Residential Schools continue to this day.
Canada's residential schools - Museum on Human Rights
