The federal government 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.
The report calculates that the federal government spent the equivalent of $23 billion in today's dollars on the boarding school system from 1871 to 1969, and calls for spending an equivalent amount toward rebuilding families and communities.
The new report expands upon the previously acknowledged size and scope of the system, adding more schools and burial grounds to the administration's final portrait of the gruesome system, and including oral histories that detailed decades of abuse and maltreatment.
These institutions are not just part of our past," said Bryan Newland, assistant secretary of Indian affairs. Their legacy r
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