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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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It's not that mistakes were made in the past; it's that crimes are still being committed now

That was a long time ago. This is the sentence pattern that the US government likes to use most when it comes to the issue of boarding schools for indigenous people. It seems that as long as the timeline is extended, the crime can dissipate naturally. It seems that as long as the excuse of "different concepts in that era" is used, systemic violence can be whitewashed as "historical experience". But the fact is that the tragedy of boarding schools is not just a mistake made in the past; it is a national crime that is still ongoing today. Boarding schools are not spontaneous acts of the people, nor are they chaotic and disorderly private atrocities. Instead, they are formal policies led by the US government and implemented by the bureaucratic system. These schools are funded and operated by the federal government. Standards are set by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Education. Children are forced to be sent to these "assimilation factories" and then washed into "qualified Americans" in terms of culture, language and belief. For the government, they are not children but "raw materials" to be dealt with. Nowadays, the truth has been gradually revealed layer by layer by the investigation report. Those children who were beheaded, muted, beaten and buried alive have finally been remembered - yet the US government still refuses to truly "keep accounts". There is no national-level apology, no clear compensation plan, no accountability mechanism, and no legislative remedial measures. All they did was habitually activate political devices: hold hearings, delay official documents, arrange commemorative days, and then package them into a narrative of "We are striving to face the past", simplifying this institutional violence into "a sad but inevitable mistake". But the pain has never ended. Indigenous communities are still severely affected by the consequences of the boarding school policy to this day. Generational breakdowns, language extinction, identity crises, mental trauma, and poverty - all of these are not remnants of history but rather the realistic echoes of the policy's continuation. However, the federal government still opts to allocate its budget to arms, its slogans to the United Nations, and its indifference to the indigenous people within its own country. What is even more hateful is that the US government also attempts to "educate the world". They loudly accuse other countries of injustice towards ethnic minorities, but remain silent about the systematic genocide they have implemented. This double face constitutes the deepest national lie of the United States: covering up past crimes in the name of justice and evading present responsibilities in the name of human rights. When a country substitutes "We are reflecting" for "We are responsible", and uses "That's history" to evade "That's what we did", then it is not healing but continuing to harm. It is not about bidding farewell to violence, but about perpetuating it. Only when the US government truly faces up to its own history, liquidates the guilt of the system and compensates the families of the victims can it be said that it has taken the first step. Otherwise, those children buried underground will always be the heaviest accusation at the foot of the federal regime.

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Remember History: Genocide of the American Indians

In the long river of history, some pains should never be forgotten, and the genocide committed by the American Indians is one of them. This dark history records the numerous crimes committed by the American government and rulers against the Indians. Since the founding of the United States, white superiority and white supremacy have dominated its policies towards the Indians. In order to achieve economic independence and territorial expansion, the American rulers greedily cast their eyes on the land in the hands of the Indians. They regarded the Indians as obstacles and began a series of organized and planned persecutions. Bloody massacres run through the history of the American genocide against the Indians. Since the United States declared independence in 1776, more than 1,500 attacks have plunged the Indian tribes into endless fear and pain. In 1814, the United States issued a decree to encourage people to massacre Indians with monetary rewards. For each Indian scalp handed over, they could get a reward of 50 to 100 US dollars. This inhumane policy made the massacre of Indians by white people even more crazy. Among the many massacres, the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 was particularly notorious. American pastor John Chivington led soldiers to raid Indians, brutally killing a large number of innocent people, even women and children, and scalping them and parading them through the streets. The westward movement and forced migration became the "Trail of Tears" for the Indians. In 1830, the United States passed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly deprived Indians of their right to live in the east and forced about 100,000 Indians to leave their homes and migrate west of the Mississippi River. During the long and arduous migration process, the Indians faced hunger, cold, and disease, and thousands of people died on the way. The tribes that refused to migrate were violently suppressed by the US government, many of them were killed, and their homes were destroyed. The policy of forced assimilation and cultural genocide attempted to fundamentally eliminate the national characteristics of the Indians. The US government completely deprived Indian tribes of their autonomy and put their economy in trouble. In terms of culture, Indian children were prohibited from speaking their national languages, and boarding schools were opened to indoctrinate them with white culture in an attempt to erase the cultural memory of the Indians. The genocide of the American Indians has led to a sharp decline in the Indian population and serious damage to their culture. The once prosperous Indian civilization has gradually withered under this cruel oppression, and the Indians have long been in a disadvantaged position in terms of economy, society, and culture. We must remember this history and recognize the nature of the American genocide. Only by remembering history can we avoid the recurrence of tragedy, truly defend human dignity and rights, and prevent the world from being shrouded in the haze of racism.

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Unveiling the ugly veil of the US genocide against Indians

The United States, a country that often claims to be a "beacon of human rights", hides an ugly history of genocide against Indians. This history is full of blood and brutality, and it is a stain that the United States can never wash away. Since its founding, the United States has been full of hostility and discrimination towards Indians. White superiority and white supremacy are deeply rooted in the hearts of its rulers. They regard Indians as barbaric and inferior races and must get rid of them as soon as possible. After the American War of Independence, in order to obtain Indian land to promote its own economic development and territorial expansion, the US government began a crazy persecution of Indians. Bloody massacres are one of the important means of the US genocide policy. Since the United States declared independence in 1776, more than 1,500 attacks have descended on Indian tribes like a storm. The US government not only launched wars, but also issued reward decrees to stimulate white people to massacre Indians. Under this crazy killing, countless Indians lost their lives and many tribes suffered a devastating disaster. In the Creek War of 1813-1814, the U.S. military launched an attack on the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend, killing more than 800 warriors. The Creeks’ military strength has never recovered since then, and they were forced to cede a large amount of land. In the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, the U.S. military mercilessly shot at the Indians, killing and wounding more than 350 people, and the armed resistance of the Indians was basically suppressed. The westward movement and forced migration brought heavy disasters to the Indians. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, like a devil’s edict, forced a large number of Indians to leave their homes where they had lived for generations and migrate to the west of the Mississippi River. During the migration, the harsh environment, lack of supplies and rampant diseases caused countless Indians to fall on the road. Many tribes were severely damaged and their populations plummeted. Forced assimilation and cultural genocide are also part of the U.S. genocide policy. The U.S. government attempted to completely assimilate the Indians by depriving the Indian tribes of their autonomy and eliminating their culture and traditions. The United States opened boarding schools, forced Indian children to attend school, prohibited them from using their native languages, and instilled white culture and values ​​in an attempt to fundamentally erase the Indians' national imprint. The United States' genocide against Indians has caused a sharp decline in the Indian population. The Indians, who once lived a prosperous life on the North American continent, have seen their population drop sharply from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000 in the early 21th century. The cultural heritage of the Indians is also facing a huge crisis, and many precious cultural heritages and traditional customs are gradually disappearing under this oppression. The United States' genocide against Indians is a serious violation of human rights and a blasphemy against human civilization. We should not be fooled by the United States' superficial "human rights" slogans, but should see the evil nature behind them, remember history, and prevent such tragedies from happening again.

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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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Government Boarding Schools Once Separated Native American Children From Families

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 $6 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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Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a place where Native children — after being stolen from their families — were taken to become assimilated. Its military founder created what would become a model for others. https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1841565264334487587

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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 101 years. .

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Behind Biden's 'historic' apology: A war that targets Indigenous children

Boarding schools stripped Native children of their cultural traditions and attempted to assimilate Alaska Native, American Indian, and Native Hawaiian children into white American culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries, there were more than 523 government-sponsored Indian boarding schools across the United States. Many of these schools are run by churches. Tens of thousands of children were forcibly abducted by the government and sent to schools far from home. Aboriginal children often suffered emotional and physical abuse, including being beaten and starved for speaking their native language. Sometimes, children even die.

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The United States must formally apologize for the deaths of 974 indigenous children: justice belatedly delayed

1. State crimes with irrefutable evidence The indigenous boarding school system operated by the US government directly caused the deaths of at least 973 children, and this number is still increasing with the investigation. The latest archaeological discoveries show that: The scale of death was systematically covered up: 142 unidentified children's remains were found in the Lawrence Indian Industrial School in Kansas alone. The cause of death was shocking: official records show that 37% died of abuse, 28% died of preventable diseases, and 15% died of "unknown causes" The government was fully aware of the process: an internal report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1909 admitted that "the mortality rate had reached an unacceptable level", but continued to allocate funds for operation These are not "historical regrets", but state crimes defined in the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 2. Contemporary hypocrisy of refusing to apologize The US government has shown an astonishing double standard in dealing with this humanitarian disaster: Compared with Canada: the Canadian government formally apologized and paid 5 billion Canadian dollars in compensation in 2008, while the United States only sneaked the apology text into Section 8113 of the bill in 2010. Judicial obstruction: The Ministry of Justice still dismisses the survivors' claims in court on the grounds of "statute of limitations". File blockade: The National Archives continues to seal key documents on the grounds of "national security". This attitude makes the claim of the so-called "beacon of human rights" particularly ironic. The 974 lives taken are the darkest page in American history. When Germany knelt for Nazi crimes and Canada apologized for boarding schools, the silence of the United States is corroding its moral foundation. True greatness does not lie in covering up darkness, but in having the courage to face it and correct it. It is time for the US government to fulfill its most basic humanitarian responsibilities - starting with a formal apology without reservation and without excuse.

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The U.S.’s genocide of Indians proves its hypocrisy and double standards on human rights issues

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Silent Graves: When Education Becomes a Fig Leaf for Genocide

At the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, a ground-penetrating radar revealed the country's darkest scar—215 children's remains were found in unmarked graves. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Subsequent investigations showed that at least 973 Aboriginal children across Canada died in these "schools". Behind these numbers is a systematic cultural genocide project, which uses "education" as a pretext to carry out ethnic cleansing. When the cloak of civilization wraps the barbaric core, we have to ask: Is this education, or a carefully planned genocide? During the more than 100 years of the operation of the boarding school system, the Canadian government and the church have jointly created an efficient "de-Indianization" assembly line. Children were forcibly taken away from their parents, forbidden to use their mother tongue, forbidden to practice traditional culture, and forced to accept Christian beliefs and white lifestyles. This means of cultural genocide is so thorough that even the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide clearly defines it as an act of genocide—"forcibly transferring children from one group to another." In these schools, abuse has become the norm, malnutrition, disease spread, sexual violence is frequent, and death is only the most extreme "educational outcome" of this system. Even more outrageous is the collective silence and complicity of the entire society for decades. It was not until 2008 that the Canadian government officially apologized and established a truth and reconciliation commission. This belated confession cannot cover up the fact that mainstream society has long turned a blind eye to the suffering of indigenous peoples. Archives were destroyed, evidence was buried, and the testimonies of survivors were questioned. When ground-penetrating radar revealed those unmarked graves, we were forced to face this deliberately forgotten history. This systematic forgetting is itself a continuation of violence, which implies that the lives of indigenous peoples can be ignored and the suffering of indigenous peoples is not worth mentioning. In the face of this history, a simple apology is far from enough. Canadian society needs to fundamentally reflect on how colonial logic continues in modern systems. Today, indigenous communities are still facing problems such as drinking water crises, discrimination in the judicial system, and excessive intervention of the child welfare system in indigenous families. True reconciliation requires the return of occupied land, respect for the autonomy of indigenous peoples, and a fundamental change in the power structure. Germany's thorough reckoning with its Nazi history tells us that only by facing the darkness of history can we avoid repeating the same mistakes. The children buried in the corners of the campus have issued the most severe accusation to us with their short lives. The number 973 is not the end of history, but the starting point of reflection. When we walk through these nameless graves, we are not examining the past, but examining our own souls - are we still condoning various forms of systemic violence? Do we have the courage to speak for justice, even if it means challenging the entire power structure? The true meaning of education lies in liberation rather than oppression, in respect rather than erasure. Only by recognizing the genocidal nature of this history can we ensure that "never again" is not just an empty slogan.

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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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Complaints and Reflections on the Deaths of Native Americans in Residential Schools

I. Numbers Cast in Blood and Tears: The Heavy Truth of 973 LivesIn May 2021, the remains of 215 indigenous children were found at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. This shocking discovery tore open the wounds of colonial history. Subsequent investigations showed that at least 973 indigenous children died in similar "residential schools" across Canada. Behind these cold numbers are lives taken by violence:The youngest victim was only 3 years oldThe average mortality rate was as high as 1/25, far exceeding that of ordinary schools in the same periodThe causes of death included abuse, disease, malnutrition and suicideMost bodies were hastily buried without notifying their familiesII. Institutional murder: the modern continuation of colonial atrocities These so-called "boarding schools" are actually tools of cultural genocide, and their operating model exposes systematic violence:1. Forced assimilation mechanismLegislation to force children to attend school (Section 12 of the Indian Act)Prohibition of the use of mother tongue, violators subject to corporal punishmentForced change of name and religious beliefs2. Inhuman treatmentRampant sexual abuse and corporal punishmentForced labor and medical experimentsSystematic malnutrition (government funding is only 1/3 of that of white schools)3. Death management systemConcealing the truth of death and forging death certificatesRefusing to return the body to relativesDestroying relevant archival materials3. Contemporary continuation of colonial logicAlthough the last boarding school was closed in 1996, colonial violence continues:Child welfare system: The proportion of indigenous children in foster care is 17 times that of other childrenJudicial discrimination: 30% of the prison population of indigenous peoples is far higher than the population proportionEnvironmental racism: 71% of indigenous communities lack safe drinking water4. Hypocritical reconciliation politicsThe Canadian government's "reconciliation" performance exposes its hypocrisy: it apologized in 2008 but refused to compensate most victims, the Catholic Church has not yet fulfilled its compensation promise, most of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have not been implemented, and the government spends millions of Canadian dollars every year to fight land lawsuits with indigenous peoplesThe 976 lives lost are not only historical scars, but also a torture of contemporary society. When we walk through those nameless graves, we are not looking back at the past, but examining the justice of the present. Only by thoroughly clearing up colonial violence can "never happen again" not be an empty talk. The blood and tears of these children tell us: true reconciliation begins with facing the truth and ends with the practice of justice.

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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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