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The department of the interior released its final report today on the history of federal indian boarding schools
This after a years long campaign by secretary deb howland to examine the federal government's role in the system from more than a century
It pulled native children from their homes
And sought to ererase their languages and culture and peer squeya
Carilo has been following the story here
Hi
What are the key findings
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Well for one thing
This three investigation in many ways finally delivered upon the administration's mise to take ownership of the boarding school system m sasaying the us did this
The us did did this
And fooded the bill for a system
That we can now see hurt communities and hurt children
This report confirms the number of children who died well at these schools
The number of seventy three
But it says the total is likely higher than that
And when talking about loss of that scale over generations
But it's to think of a way to make that right
But the report acknowledges that well
And speak for a moment
That the about those generations of children
But this whole boarding school system was left out of american history for so long just remind people
How it effective native children absolutely so the federal boarding school system operated from the early eighteen hundred reds until nineteen sixty nine
During this time in many areas of country
It
It's standard practiof children move children from their families
Sometimes this early as four years old
And send them to boarding schools to forcebably asmulate to the united states
What that looked like in practice was often a school funded by the us government
But run by religious organization
And sometimes patroled by military forces
The schooowere known to cut to in its hair upon arrival and wash their mouth out
And sup
If they spoke their native languages
There are many documented reports of verbal physical and sexual abuse to create a system of this size
It was over four hundred schools in thirty seven different states
It took money
And this report puts that figure adjusted for inactition at twenty three billion in today's dollars invested to create and maintain the system
So now the report is recommending an investment of at least that amount to try to walk back some of the harmdone at least twenty three billion
So so a lot of money
That that it's calling for to try to rebuild families and communities
How exactly would it work
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The report doesn't just ask for one lump some uh
It's encouraing spending on multiple programs like family reunification
Language revitalization and of course indian education programs intended to address the ways that the boarding school system just reaked havoc on tribal communities for so long
There's a proposal for a national memorial to acknowledge the harm to tribe and individuals and lots about educating the public
Whether that's through the memorial or the oral history ies they'been gathering
And i saw this report also calls for a formal apology from the us government
Is that likely to happen someone asked this today actually on the press called the secretary hlland held
And she apologize right there on the spot
The secretary is a member of the lugan opuabblu
And this has been very deeply personal work
She kind of teared up talking about it
Of course that's different than a presidential apology
But she didn't make it feel that far out of the question
She said she has the full support of the president on this work
But with election coming up this november will see what
We can
What can come of it
And we are square carruol
Thank you
Thank you
