by lindaoppenheim | May 17, 2023 | Podcast
THE CRIMES OF NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS Amidst an unprecedented federal investigation into hundreds of Native Boarding Schools and the 100,000+ children these institutions forcibly removed, one school has become the epicenter of controversy in America’s attempt...
by lindaoppenheim | May 11, 2022 | Documents
A report from an investigation by the Interior Department, commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, released on May 11, 2022, “highlighted the abuse of many of the children at the government-run schools, such as beatings, withholding of food and solitary...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), the First Nations Repatriation Institute, and the University of Minnesota announced the launch of a new study, Child Removal in Native Communities: An Anonymous Survey and put out a call for...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 3, 2018 | Podcast
The story of 18-year-old Sam Oozevaseuk Schimmel illustrates the effect of intergenerational trauma, specifically, how his grandmother’s experience as a Native Alaskan sent to a government boarding school, where she faced cultural annihilation and physical...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 24, 2016 | News
For the first time, a church organization has apologized to the Alaska Federation of Natives for its treatment of Native people and especially for abuses in boarding schools.
