The Standing Rock protests were one of those big news events that defines multiple years. THE RECAST: One of those groups you talked to was a group of young activists. Just variations as to how people get there. They want the truth of what truly occurred, and then they want to have accountability. WESLEY: Overwhelmingly I think everybody ultimately wants some kind of accountability. Is there anything that they all hope this investigation will solve? You went to Red Cloud school and you talked with a lot of different people. THE RECAST: The Department of the Interior is carrying out an investigation right now into Native American boarding schools. | Courtesy of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition They are a result of multigenerational trauma, executed through the schools that still impact our people today.Ī group of Omaha boys are pictured in cadet uniforms at the Carlisle boarding school in 1880. The severe abuse - sexual, physical, psychological - and the cultural genocide within these institutions the fact that now most Native languages in this country are threatened or endangered the myriad of social issues, health disparities, you name it, that people want to define Americans by - those problems are not organic and natural to our communities. My grandfather was a survivor of the Pawnee industrial boarding school. It is hard to find a Native person in this country who has not been impacted by the boarding schools because we’re all descendants. The federal government’s aim was to take our children and break up families and communities in order to dispossess Native Americans of land. The boarding schools policy started around 1819 and went all the way through the 1960s, with more than 100,000 Native children. THE RECAST: Why this issue, of the myriad issues? And how does it relate to the bigger tension points in Native American policy in the United States right now?ĮCHO HAWK: What happened in the boarding schools is a really significant chapter of American history. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. I sat down to chat with the podcast’s hosts, Crystal Echo Hawk and Lashay Wesley, about the impact that Native boarding schools still have today on Native communities - and how a Supreme Court overturn of the Indian Child Welfare Act could exacerbate the issues. While the school has taken steps to address the past harms inflicted on former students, many in the community say it isn’t enough - they want the Catholic Church to leave and give the school and its land back to the tribe. Generations of Native children have attended Red Cloud, a Jesuit school that now hosts a staff that is majority Lakota. “American Genocide” dives into the controversy over Red Cloud boarding school in Pine Ridge, S.D. “It’s an incredibly successful piece of legislation that has kept Native families together and helped Native children keep ties to their culture,” said Lashay Wesley, a member of the Choctaw Nation and co-host of the new podcast, “ American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools.” “It is a concerning time.” Was The Recast forwarded to you by a friend? Don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter here.Įvery week, we interview influential characters shaking up politics. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on the bill soon, and many Native Americans worry the court will overturn the legislation completely. The intention of the ICWA was to keep Native children within their community, instead of automatically placing them with foster or adoptive families who were not members of their tribe. The BIA initiative isn’t the first time the federal government tried to address the harms caused by separating Native children from their families and tribes: In 1978, the Indian Child Welfare Act was signed into law. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the purpose of the schools was to “assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children by forcibly removing them from their families, communities, languages, religions and cultural beliefs.” In 2021, the BIA started an initiative to document these schools and the trauma often inflicted on Native children in their care. boarding schools over the decades.īetween 18, more than 100,000 Native American children attended over 400 boarding schools around the nation. But today, we’re diving into the atrocities committed against Native American children in U.S. adds 339,000 jobs and the Trump-DeSantis feud is already getting ugly. What’s up, Recasters! The debt limit bill heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for signing, the U.S. POLITICO illustration/Photos courtesy of IllumiNative
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