Truth Comes out on Native Boarding School Report, But More Needed

“By the late 1870s, its goals turned toward destroying tribal identity and assimilating Indians into broader society. Achieving those goals, officials reasoned, required the ‘complete isolation of the Indian child from his savage antecedents.’” This is a quote by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U.S. 255, 298 (2023), as reported in the July 2024 second report of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report Vol. II. Rachel Overstreet, Legislative Representative at the Friends Committee on National Legislation highlights the report in her recent article, the report which includes the names of 973 Native children who died during the “education” in the over 100-year period, ending in 1969. Overstreet talks about the report, and what more needs to be done to right this wrong.

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