A Dallas artist who learned ‘fear’ at one of the schools has a plan for finding burial sites.
In the 19th century and into the early 20th century, white settlers in Texas simply killed or drove away many tribes. It’s no surprise, then, that across the state border, Oklahoma hadRegardless of Texas’ lack of Native boarding schools and its small number of reservations, in the past half-century, thousands of American Indians have made North Texas their home. This is partly because of theAmerican Indians signed away their land rights to move to big cities like Dallas for jobs or job training.
The ostensible goal may have been assimilation into white culture, but the results of both the schools and the relocations, Yellowfish said, were basically the same: erasing American Indian culture and languages and disrupting families. Last year, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to hold that post, announced theto address the “intergenerational trauma” caused by federal policies and to “identify associated marked and unmarked burial sites.”
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