US: The investigation that will change how America thinks about its past (Opinion)
Week Magazine – July 02, 2021
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that for the first time, the United States will search the grounds of its former Indigenous boarding schools for the remains of children who for over a century were forcibly taken from their families and brutally stripped of their culture (including Haaland’s grandparents). The move will mean a serious national reckoning among non-Indigenous Americans about the cultural genocide in our not-so-distant past, and the revelations, conversations, and policies that could ensue set Haaland up to be one of the most consequential Interior Secretaries in modern history.
Also: The sad legacy of American Indian boarding schools in Minnesota and the U.S. (Commentary): https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2016/06/sad-legacy-american-indian-boarding-schools-minnesota-and-us/
https://theweek.com/us/1002172/deb-haaland-indigenous-boarding-schools