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Schools would have used schooling to replace Native American culture so that tribal lands can simply be taken.
A U. S. government investigation The U. S. Department of Homeland Security on the dark history of Native American boarding discovered “marked or unmarked burial sites” in 53 of them, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Wednesday.
“We want to clarify the unspoken traumas of the past,” said Haaland, the first Native American cabinet member to announce the investigation last year.
“Federal policies that have attempted to destroy Indigenous identity, language, and culture continue to manifest themselves in the pain that tribal communities experience today. “
Schools would have used schooling to replace Native American culture so that tribal lands could simply be taken, while young people were forced to go to school.
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