Tribal citizens are speaking up about decades of abuse and mistreatment at federal Indian boarding schools as part of the Department of Interior’s ‘Road to Healing.’
Residents of Gila River Indian Community listen during a"Road to Healing" event at the Gila Crossing Community School in Laveen, Ariz. The year-long tour goes across the country to provide Indigenous survivors of the federal Indian boarding school system and their descendants an opportunity to share their experiences.Residents of Gila River Indian Community listen during a"Road to Healing" event at the Gila Crossing Community School in Laveen, Ariz.
Ignacio is one of hundreds of people in attendance, from small children to elderly tribal citizens, who have come here to speak to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. The public forum at the Gila Crossing Community School is Haaland's fourth stop on "My family in particular has five generations of boarding school attendees and survivors," Ignacio says. She went on to tell of her grandparents' experiences of abuse and the lasting impacts of it on her family
In the past few years, the Department of the Interior has taken the unprecedented step of acknowledging the role its boarding schools played in the long-running federal effort to erase Native languages and cultures. Children in this system were forced to cut their hair, only speak English, practice certain religions and, ultimately, assimilate into mainstream or white culture. Punishments were harsh, and many children never made it home.
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