The second - and concluding - report from the department's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative calls for a formal apology from the U.S. government and ongoing support to help Native people recover from the generational trauma that endures.
The overarching theme of the boarding school initiative report and recommendations is that of healing for Indian Country, with a list of specific ways the federal government can tangibly assist tribal nations and peoples. It also reported that hundreds of additional children are now known to have died at the boarding schools and that additional burial sites had been discovered.
"The federal government - facilitated by the department I lead - took deliberate and strategic actions through federal Indian boarding school policies to isolate children from their families, deny them their identities, and steal from them the languages, cultures and connections that are foundational to Native people," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, said.
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