The BIA, under the direction of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, released a report detailing how the US government used schools as a tool to seize Native American land and erase their culture.
Eradicating culture, separating children from their parents, and ignoring children's emotional needs. These strategies could be plucked from today's headlines, but they are the tried-and-true education policies that the US has admitted to utilizing for 150 years to drive Native Americans to assimilate and, notably, to obtain Indian territorial land.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) released a 106-page report (pdf given below) this month detailing how the US government "applied systematic militarized and identity-alteration methodologies in the Federal Indian boarding school system to assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children through education."
According to the BIA, the government used children's education to "replace the Indian's culture with ou...
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