The vast majority of Americans don't learn about Indian boarding schools growing up. These Native leaders and educators want to change that.

Sep 14, 20210

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Only five states mentioned Indian boarding schools in their state content standards, which is "unimaginable," said Sam Torres of The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. "It's obviously a representation and reflection of what is being valued in educational and curricular context." (Photo/NABSHC)

As the United States federal government gears up to assess the genocide it perpetuated against Native communities for nearly a century, Native leaders and academics say there is one glaring method for accessing truth and healing: education.

Roughly fifty four percent of public schools across the United States make no mention of Native Americans in their K-12 curriculum, and 87 percent of state history standards don't discuss Native American history after 1900, according to a study conducted in 2019.

Last month, South Dakota's Department of Education made national news when officials scrubbed more than a dozen Indigenous-centered learning objectives from the department's new social studies standards before releasing the document to the public.

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