Victims of government-backed Native American boarding schools are expected to share their experiences as U.S. officials make a final stop in Montana on their yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society.
The best gift for foodies: This 8-piece Japanese chef’s knife set with gift box, now $299 off!FILE -Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Haaland plans to be in Bozeman, Mont. Sunday to wrap up her nationwide tour confronting the legacy of the institutions where students were often abused.
The U.S. enacted laws and policies in 1819 to support the schools and some continued to operate through the 1960s. Anreleased last year by the Interior Department identified 408 government-backed schools in 37 states or then-territories, including Alaska and Hawaii. They’ve told stories of being punished for speaking their native language, getting locked in basements and their hair being cut to stamp out their identities. They were sometimes subjected to solitary confinement, beatings and withholding food. Many emerged from the schools with only basic vocational skills that left them with few job prospects, officials said.
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