U.S. Interior Department’s Native boarding school report, only the beginning

The U.S. Interior Department says it reviewed over a million pages of federal records to produce a two-volume report on Native boarding schools. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland released the department’s second and final volume on July 30. It acknowledges wrongdoing in federal boarding school policies and also makes recommendations, which include apologies to communities for forcibly taking children from their homes to assimilate them. It also calls for a national memorial and programs that offer healing through language and culture.

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