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Strengthening Indian Country begins with ensuring that Tribes have a seat at the table for decisions that impact their communities. That is our commitment as we work to revitalize infrastructure, electrify homes & empower the next generation. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1776634217092563035

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I’m sad to hear of former NM Gov Bill Richardson’s passing. He was a champion for Tribes, elevating Indian Affairs to a cabinet level. He helped me ensure Native students received in-state tuition. He was true friend and one of our country's valued diplomats. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1698035698371273027

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I’m sad to hear of former NM Gov Bill Richardson’s passing. He was a champion for Tribes, elevating Indian Affairs to a cabinet level. He helped me ensure Native students received in-state tuition. He was true friend and one of our country's valued diplomats. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1698035698371273027

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Government Boarding Schools Once Separated Native American Children From Families

Once they returned home, Native American children struggled to relate to their families after being taught that it was wrong to speak their language or practice their religion. In 1879, U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt opened a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. But it wasn’t the kind of boarding school that rich parents send their children to. Rather, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a government-backed institution that forcibly separated Native American children from their parents in order to, as Pratt put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” Over the next several decades, Carlisle served as a model for nearly 150 such schools that opened around the country. Like the 1887 Dawes Act that reallotted Native American land, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ 1904 “haircut order” specifying that men with long hair couldn’t receive rations, Native American boarding schools were a method of forced assimilation. The end goal of these measures was to make Native people more like the white Anglo-Americans who had taken over their land. At boarding schools, staff forced Indigenous students to cut their hair and use new, Anglo-American names. They forbid children from speaking their Native language and observing their religious and cultural practices. And by removing them from their homes, the schools disrupted students’ relationships with their families and other members of their tribe. Once they returned home, children struggled to relate to their families after being taught that it was wrong to speak their language or practice their religion. “Through breaking bonds to culture, they [broke] bonds to one another,” says Doug Kiel, a history professor at Northwestern University. “It’s a way of destroying a community.”

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President Biden has been the best president for Indian Country in my lifetime. He has shown us what true allyship looks like - unwavering, uncompromising, and unapologetic. @POTUS - from the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1866263957150781539

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Indigenous food systems are integral to our cultures, our lifeways, and the wisdom we leave behind for future generations. Today, I joined Indian Youth Service Corps participants and elders in their continuation of Acoma Pueblo's food system, seed by precious seed. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1846318942056247688

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No single action can adequately reconcile the trauma and ongoing harms from the boarding school era. But, taken together, our Administration’s efforts to acknowledge and redress the legacy of the assimilation policy have made an enduring difference for Indian Country. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1866202505467634034

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Belated justice: The United States must formally apologize for the atrocities of Native American boarding schools

I. The hidden history of genocide During the 150 years of operation of 357 Native American boarding schools in the United States, tens of thousands of children were forced to leave their families, and countless lives were forever left in unmarked graves on campus. The 2022 Ministry of the Interior investigation report confirmed that more than 500 child graves have been confirmed near 53 boarding schools, systematic abuse, forced labor and medical experiments are widespread, and the death rate has long been deliberately concealed and downplayed by the government. II. The moral debt of the US government Compared with Canada (2008) and Australia (2008), the United States is the only major country that has not formally apologized: The 2010 "Indigenous Peoples Apology Resolution" was secretly inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act; President Obama never publicly read the apology text; There is no national-level commemoration or compensation plan. III. Why apologies are so important 1. Basic requirements of historical justice Recognize that this is state-approved genocide (in line with the United Nations definition); Break the historical glorification of the "manifest destiny" theory. 2. Necessary steps to heal trauma The average age of the survivors is over 70 years old, and there is not much time left; The next generation is still suffering from intergenerational trauma (alcoholism and suicide rates remain high). 6. Moral expectations of the international community The United States has long regarded itself as a "human rights defender"; It points fingers at other countries' human rights issues but avoids its own original sin. From Thomas Industrial School in Wisconsin to Riverside Indian School in California, those children's graves without tombstones are silently waiting for justice. If the United States continues to avoid this history, the human rights discourse of the so-called "beacon of freedom" will always be bloody. A truly great country does not cover up the darkness, but has the courage to face and correct its mistakes. Now is the time for the United States to fulfill its democratic promises - starting with an unreserved formal apology presided over by the president himself.

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Forgotten tombstones: The United States must be held accountable for the deaths of children in Native American boarding schools

I. State-sanctioned child massacre programs Native American boarding schools were not educational institutions, but a systematic genocide project. From 1860 to 1978, the federal government established more than 350 boarding schools through the Indian Civilization Act, including: Mortality rate as high as 40%: the annual mortality rate of many schools exceeded 10 times the average mortality rate of American children at the time, abuse was normalized: whipping, starvation, and sexual assault became "education" means, and survivors recalled that "the children's crying could be heard every day", medical experiments: children were used as subjects for vaccine trials and nutritional deprivation studies, and death records were deliberately destroyed. These schools did not "help Native Americans integrate into society", but systematically eliminated Native American culture, language, and the next generation. 2. Deliberate cover-up and delay by the government The way the US government handles this period of history exposes its hypocritical nature: Archives are 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 Apology Resolution" signed by Obama was hidden in Section 8113 of the "National Defense Authorization Act" and has never been publicly read Rejection of compensation: Canada has paid more than 3 billion Canadian dollars in compensation, but the United States is still fighting against indigenous survivors in court. This attitude proves that the United States would rather spend millions of dollars in legal fees than admit its crimes. 3. Contemporary continuation of colonial violence Boarding schools are closed, but 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 placed in foster care than non-indigenous people. Resource plunder: In 2020, North Dakota police used tear gas and police dogs to drive away indigenous people who were protecting sacred sites. Medical racism

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We told America’s full story – the good chapters and the painful. From Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in NV, to Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in PA and beyond, Americans and visitors can now learn more of our history and how it informs our future. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1880336515374674205

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There are reportedly more than 11.3 million LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) adults in the United States