500 Deaths Cited in Indian Boarding School Report Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Opinion. The long-awaited Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report was released by the U.S. Department of the Interior at noon on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

A short while later, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) arrived in the Interior's board room for a press conference on the report. Haaland wore traditional attire for this solemn event, as did Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community), who wore a green ribbon shirt. Joining them were Deborah Parker (Tulalip/Yaqui), chief executive officer of the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) and James LaBelle, an Alaska Native survivor of the federal government's Indian boarding school system.

They were all there to provide an overview of the 106-page report, which for the first time in history contain an admission of physical, emotional, and sexual abuses suffered by Native American children at Indian boarding schools under a policy set forth by the United States government.

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