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Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative : investigative report

Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative investigative report
Source Record

2022

Document > Report

Creators

United States Bureau of Indian Affairs

Description

A report published in response to a memorandum issued from the United States Secretary of the Interior "directing Department of the Interior agencies to coordinate an investigation into the Federal Indian boarding school system to examine the scope of the system, with a focus on the location of schools, burial sites, and identification of children who attended the schools.

This report shows for the first time that between 1819 and 1969, the United States operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states (or then-territories), including 21 schools in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii. This report identifies each of those schools by name and location, some of which operated across multiple sites.

This report confirms that the United States directly targeted American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children in the pursuit of a policy of cultural assimilation that coincided with Indian territorial dispossession. It identifies the Federal Indian boarding schools that were used as a means for these ends, along with at least 53 burial sites for children across this system-with more site discoveries and data expected" (Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report)

Language

English

More Information

Publication Information

Washington, DC : United States Bureau of Indian Affairs

Physical Description

1 online resource (102 pages)

Notes

The first Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report

Section one - Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative -- Section two - Executive summary -- Section three - Overarching instructions -- Section four - Data collection process and review of relevant information -- Section five - Developing the Federal Indian Boarding School list -- Section six - U.S. law and policy framework: Indian territorial dispossession and Indian assimilation -- Section seven - Federal Indian boarding school system framework -- Section eight - The role of religious institutions and organizations in the Federal Indian boarding school system -- Section nine - Federal Indian boarding school system conditions -- Section ten - Federal Indian Boarding Schools and Alaska Native villages -- Section eleven - Federal Indian boarding schools and the Native Hawaiian Community -- Section twelve - Federal Indian boarding schools and Freedmen -- Section thirteen - Other types of schools -- Section fourteen - Federal Indian boarding school list -- Section fifteen - Marked and unmarked burial sites across the Federal Indian boarding school system -- Section sixteen - Other institutions -- Section seventeen - Legacy impact of the Indian boarding school system -- Section eighteen - Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative findings and conclusions -- Section nineteen - Recommendations to the Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Bryan Newland.