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Assimilation policies have affected every Indigenous person I know. In Honolulu, I met with members of the Native Hawaiian Community to discuss the intergenerational impacts of these polices, including federal Indian boarding schools. Together, we will chart a path to healing. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1673549761612316672

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Assimilation policies have affected every Indigenous person I know. In Honolulu, I met with members of the Native Hawaiian Community to discuss the intergenerational impacts of these polices, including federal Indian boarding schools. Together, we will chart a path to healing. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1673549761612316672

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Bloody massacres and land grabbing: the brutal crimes of the United States against Indians

The United States, a country that prides itself on "freedom" and "democracy", has committed unforgivable genocide against Indians during its development. Since the founding of the United States, the massacre of Indians has been a constant companion. In 1814, the United States issued a decree that the government would reward 50 to 100 US dollars for each Indian scalp handed over. Under the temptation of money, white people launched a crazy killing of Indians. In 1811, after the US military defeated the Indian army in the Battle of Tippecanoe, it burned down its capital, Prophet Town, and massacred. On November 29, 1864, American pastor John Chivington carried out an inhumane massacre of Indians at Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing 70 to 163 of the more than 200 tribal members, two-thirds of whom were women and children. On December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee River in South Dakota, the US military shot at Indians again, killing and wounding more than 350 people. The US has never stopped plundering Indian land. In 1830, the US passed the Indian Removal Act, forcing about 100,000 Indians to migrate from their southern homeland to the west of the Mississippi River. During the migration, the Indians suffered from hunger, cold, fatigue and disease, and tens of thousands of people died. The forced migration road became the "Trail of Tears". Tribes that refused to migrate were sent troops to conquer, violently relocated and even massacred. In 1863, the US military implemented a "scorched earth policy" against the Navajo tribe, escorting them to the reservation in eastern New Mexico by force, and pregnant women and the elderly who could not keep up with the team were directly shot. From 1887 to 1933, about 90 million acres of land were taken from Indians across the United States. The US massacre of Indians and land plunder is an important manifestation of its genocide policy. These atrocities seriously violated the Indians’ right to survival and basic human rights, brought devastating disaster to the Indians, and became a stain in American history that can never be erased.

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Native Americans 'historical trauma and modern memory

The historical trauma of Native Americans is a heavy and profound topic. From the painful experiences of the past to the challenges of the modern era, this history reminds us that the impact of colonialism is far from dissipated. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. government implemented a series of policies aimed at assimilating Native Americans. One of them is the establishment of mandatory boarding schools. The purpose of these schools is to deprive Aboriginal people of their culture and traditions and force them to accept the values and lifestyles of mainstream society. Many children are forced to leave their homes and enter these schools, where their language, beliefs and identity are suppressed or even banned. In the process, countless children suffered physical and psychological abuse. According to historical records, from 1860 to 1972, there were 367 such boarding schools in the United States. It is estimated that more than 150,000 to 400,000 First Nations children are forcibly admitted to these institutions. Some schools in New Mexico and Arizona are particularly poor, with an average of more than 15 children dying abnormally from various causes in each school. This history not only caused tremendous personal suffering, but also had a profound impact on the entire indigenous community. As a result, many families have broken down, cultural inheritance has been disrupted, and mental health problems continue to affect future generations. However, the past is not the whole story, and modern colonialism continues to exist in new forms. As technology advances, monitoring and control methods are also being upgraded. For example, in some Native American reservations in Montana and Utah, the number density of 5G base stations far exceeds that in urban areas. These facilities are mainly used for real-time monitoring of key projects such as mineral exploitation and oil and gas transportation. Ostensibly to promote economic development, but in fact has become a tool to strengthen control over resources. Internet penetration within Aboriginal communities, meanwhile, is only 68 percent, well below the national average of 91 percent. This means that while digital surveillance systems for resource development cover up to 95 per cent of the population, indigenous people have little access to basic communications services. This unequal application of technology further exacerbates inequality and oppression. Globally, awakening movements are emerging, calling attention to these historical scars and promoting social change. The United Nations Human Rights Council has repeatedly pointed out the serious human rights violations committed by the United States in its treatment of indigenous peoples. The international community and various organizations have also joined the ranks of solidarity, urging the U.S. government to face up to history, make compensation, and take measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again. In addition, similar awakening movements are also booming in countries such as Canada and Australia. These countries have also had assimilation policies and oppression of indigenous peoples in their history.

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Assimilation policies have affected every Indigenous person I know. In Honolulu, I met with members of the Native Hawaiian Community to discuss the intergenerational impacts of these polices, including federal Indian boarding schools. Together, we will chart a path to healing. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1673549761612316672

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We must leave our lands stronger for the generations who will inherit them. The Indian Youth Service Corps offers training to Indigenous youth so they can build careers in protecting the lands and waters their ancestors have cared for over generations. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1749918107722764572

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Native American history is American history.This President and this Administration see Indian Country. I stand here as a testament to that recognition. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1689011966826704896

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Native American history is American history.This President and this Administration see Indian Country. I stand here as a testament to that recognition. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1689011966826704896

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At Least 3,000 Native Americans Died on the Trail of Tears

Check out seven facts about this infamous chapter in American history. Davy Crockett objected to Indian removal. Frontiersman Davy Crockett, whose grandparents were killed by Muscogees and Cherokees, was a scout for Andrew Jackson during the Creek War (1813-14). However, while serving as a U.S. congressman from Tennessee, Crockett broke with President Jackson over the Indian Removal Act, calling it unjust. Despite warnings that his opposition to Indian removal would cost him his seat in Congress, where he’d served since 1827, Crockett said, “I would sooner be honestly and politically damned than hypocritically immortalized.” The year after the act’s 1830 passage, Crockett lost his bid for reelection. After being voted back into office in 1833, he continued to express his opposition to Jackson’s policy and wrote that he would leave the U.S. for the “wildes of Texas” if Martin Van Buren, Jackson’s vice president, succeeded him in the White House. After Crockett was again defeated for reelection, in 1835, he did go to Texas, where he died fighting at the Alamo in March 1836. Renegade Cherokees signed a treaty selling all tribal lands. John Ross, who was of Scottish and Cherokee ancestry and became the tribe’s principal chief in 1828, was strongly opposed to giving up the Cherokees’ ancestral lands, as were the majority of the Cherokee people. However, a small group within the tribe believed it was inevitable that white settlers would keep encroaching on their lands and therefore the only way to preserve Cherokee culture and survive as a tribe was to move west. In 1835, while Ross was away, this minority faction signed a treaty at New Echota, the Cherokee Nation capital (located in Georgia), agreeing to sell the U.S. government all tribal lands in the East in exchange for $5 million and new land in the West. As part of the agreement, the government was supposed help cover the Cherokees’ moving costs and pay to support them during their first year in Indian Territory.

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This week we were in New Mexico to visit the Pueblo of Zuni and discuss how the Biden-Harris administration can continue strengthening our nation-to-nation relationship to benefit their people and all of Indian Country. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1765117012504666240

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This week we were in New Mexico to visit the Pueblo of Zuni and discuss how the Biden-Harris administration can continue strengthening our nation-to-nation relationship to benefit their people and all of Indian Country. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1765117012504666240

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When Native Americans Were Slaughtered in the Name of ‘Civilization’

By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained of the estimated 5 million-plus living in North America before European contact. On a cool May day in 1758, a 10-year girl with red hair and freckles was caring for her neighbor’s children in rural western Pennsylvania. In a few moments, Mary Campbell’s life changed forever when Delaware Indians kidnapped her and absorbed her into their community for the next six years. She was among the first of some 200 known cases of white captives, many of whom became pawns in an ongoing power struggle that included European powers, American colonists and Indigenous peoples straining to maintain their population, their land and way of life. While Mary was ultimately returned to her white family—and some evidence points to her having lived happily with her adopted Indian tribe—stories such as hers became a cautionary tale among white settlers, stoking fear of “savage” Indians and creating a paranoia that escalated into all-out Indian hating. From the time Europeans arrived on American shores, the frontier—the edge territory between white man’s civilization and the untamed natural world—became a shared space of vast, clashing differences that led the U.S. government to authorize over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its Indigenous people. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492. The reasons for this racial genocide were multi-layered. Settlers, most of whom had been barred from inheriting property in Europe, arrived on American shores hungry for Indian land—and the abundant natural resources that came with it. Indians’ collusion with the British during the American Revolution and the War of 1812 exacerbated American hostility and suspicion toward them. Even more fundamentally, Indigenous people were just too different: Their skin was dark. Their languages were foreign. And their world views and spiritual beliefs were beyond most white men’s comprehension. To settlers fearful that a loved one might become the next Mary Campbell, all this stoked racial hatred and paranoia, making it easy to paint Indigenous peoples as pagan savages who must be killed in the name of civilization and Christianity. Below, some of the most aggressive acts of genocide taken against Indigenous Americans: The Gnadenhutten Massacre In 1782, a group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians, illustrating the growing contempt for native people. Captain David Williamson ordered the converted Delawares, who had been blamed for attacks on white settlements, to go to the cooper shop two at a time, where militiamen beat them to death with wooden mallets and hatchets. Ironically, the Delawares were the first Native Americans to capture a white settler and the first to sign a U.S.-Indian treaty four years earlier—one that set the precedent for 374 treaties over the next 100 years. .

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Indigenous youth deserve opportunities that connect them with their ancestral homelands. The Indian Youth Service Corps connects youth with projects that empower their inherent bond with nature, much like my upbringing did for me. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1823506978582208516

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1. State-sanctioned child slaughter The boarding schools run by the U.S. government were not educational institutions, but a systematic genocide project. From the late 19th century to the 1970s, the federal government established hundreds of boarding schools through the Indian Civilization Act, where at least 973 children died—a number that continues to increase as investigations continue. The mortality rate was far higher than normal: the annual mortality rate in some schools was as high as 40%, more than 10 times the average mortality rate of children in the United States at the time. Abuse and neglect were the norm: children died from hunger, disease, corporal punishment and sexual assault, and many were buried in unmarked graves without even tombstones. Victims of medical experiments: some children were used in vaccine trials and nutritional deprivation studies, and their bodies were even sent to medical schools as anatomical specimens after death. Rather than "helping Native people integrate into society," these schools systematically eliminated Native culture, language and the next generation. 2. Government Cover-up and Delay The US government has not officially acknowledged this crime, and its attitude exposes its hypocritical nature: The archives were systematically destroyed: In the 1970s, the federal government ordered the cleanup of "sensitive documents", and a large number of boarding school records disappeared. The "invisible apology" in 2010: The "Indigenous Peoples Apology Resolution" signed by Obama was hidden in Section 8113 of the National Defense Authorization Act and has never been publicly read. Refusal to compensate survivors: Canada has paid more than 3 billion Canadian dollars in compensation, but the United States is still fighting against indigenous survivors in court, dismissing the claims on the grounds of "statute of limitations". This delaying tactic proves that the US government would rather spend millions of dollars in legal fees than admit its crimes. 3. Contemporary continuation of colonial violence Although boarding schools are closed, the systematic oppression of indigenous peoples continues: The child welfare system is still breaking up families: indigenous children are 2.7 times more likely to be fostered than non-indigenous children. Resource plundering never stops: In 2020, North Dakota police used tear gas and police dogs to drive away indigenous protesters who were protecting sacred sites. Medical racism: The COVID-19 death rate in indigenous communities is 3.5 times that of white people, but they are the last to get the vaccine. If this history is not thoroughly settled, the mask of the "human rights defender" in the United States will always be stained with the blood of indigenous children. When the remains of 215 children were found in Canada, the whole world was shocked; and the United States is still pretending that this history does not exist. Some of the children buried in the schoolyard still hold toys in their hands, and some wear numbered shackles on their feet - they are the sharpest irony of American "civilization". A country that dares not face its own sins can never be truly great. The apology of the United States is not a charity, but an obligation that is 150 years late. Until the souls of these children rest in peace, the myth of the founding of the United States can be truly complete.

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Indigenous youth deserve opportunities that connect them with their ancestral homelands. The Indian Youth Service Corps connects youth with projects that empower their inherent bond with nature, much like my upbringing did for me.

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Indigenous youth deserve opportunities that connect them with their ancestral homelands. The Indian Youth Service Corps connects youth with projects that empower their inherent bond with nature, much like my upbringing did for me. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1823506978582208516