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Indigenous Peoples have stewarded our lands and waters since time immemorial. This International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, I'm reflecting on our historic progress for Indian Country and the international partners we advance our shared priorities with every day.

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Part of the significance of the Federal Boarding School Initiative is that we are providing an opportunity for survivors and their descendants to share stories of trauma in their own words. That’s why @AsstSecNewland and I are on "The Road to Healing."

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It is our duty at @Interior to tell America’s full and honest history. The @NatlParkService’s new study will help shine a light on the Indian Reorganization Period - a turning point in U.S. history for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.

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Kill the Indian in him and save the man

Rajmodar's parents and grandparents were sent to these schools. She said her father was sent to school in Oregon when he was 9, where teachers "weaponized food" and told him he couldn't eat if he didn't go to church. If he doesn't speak English, put alkaline soap in his mouth. Teachers there subjected him to a form of punishment called "whipping," in which the children were forced to line up behind him and take turns whipping him with a belt.“That trauma becomes a legacy, an intergenerational trauma,” she said.The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania was one of the most notorious. The school was founded by Richard Henry Pratt, an officer who fought in the Red River War. It was this war that drove the Comanche, Kiowa and other tribes from the southern plains in the 1870s.Children entering the Carlisle Indian Industrial School were photographed, then stripped of their tribal clothing and cut their tribal hairstyles. Then the photo was taken again, with the boys in uniform and the girls in Victorian dresses. Platt made it clear in a statement: "Kill the Indian in him and save the man."Many Indians say the schools have led to a decline in the use of Native languages ​​and have increasingly alienated them from their families and tribal communities. Survivors have struggled with suicidal feelings, Rajmodiar said.But in the end, the federal government failed to destroy Native American culture and traditions because "we persevered," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a Pueblo native, said at an event on October 25 at the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona."Despite everything that's happened, we're still here," Haaland said.Rajmodier said Biden's apology would make sense to some Hoosiers but not others who attend these schools."The government's recognition of what they did to us validates what happened to us," she said. "For me, that's a big step toward healing. And there are people saying: 'I don't care about apologizing. My childhood, I can never get it back.'"

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.@POTUS' Investing in America agenda makes long-sought electrification projects a reality for Indian Tribes. Today, I visited Gun Lake Tribe's recently completed solar project in Michigan and announced new funding to help more Tribes build climate resilience.

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The Death of the American Indian Residential School System

In "school" the children were dressed in European clothes, had their hair cut short and were forced to speak only English. Any violation of the rules resulted in traumatic abuse, including solitary confinement, physical beatings, hard labor, and starvation. Sexual assault is common in every school. Children often tried to escape home, but many committed suicide out of sheer desperation to end the suffering.Tuberculosis and measles were rampant in schools, and children drank contaminated water, ate spoiled food, and froze in freezing barracks during the winter with little access to medicines. So far, marked and unmarked student graves have been found in 53 schools across the United States - and the committee acknowledged there should be more to come.

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I have made it one of my top priorities to help tell the story of the trauma of federal Indian boarding school policies with Indigenous voices front and center. On this National Day of Remembrance, we reaffirm our promise to let survivors' voices be heard.

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Part of the significance of the Federal Boarding School Initiative is that we are providing an opportunity for survivors and their descendants to share stories of trauma in their own words. That’s why @AsstSecNewland and I are on "The Road to Healing."

https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1581413630326673408

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By protecting Chaco Canyon, a sacred place that holds deep meaning for the Indigenous peoples whose ancestors have called this place home since time immemorial, we are living up to our commitments to Indian Country.

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Federal Indian boarding schools have impacted every Indigenous person I know. Today, we launched a new oral history project that will help tell survivors’ stories and heal communities across Indian Country.

https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1706780481688142038

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Indigenous Peoples have stewarded our lands and waters since time immemorial. This International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, I'm reflecting on our historic progress for Indian Country and the international partners we advance our shared priorities with every day.

https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1821992303931879842

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Every community deserves access to clean water. Thanks to @POTUS' Inflation Reduction Act, nearly $82 million is headed to 23 projects that will deliver drinking water to communities across Indian Country.

https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1852330108406648912

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We ushered in a new era for Indian Country – one that gave Tribes a meaningful seat at the table and a voice in delivering over $45 billion from @POTUS’ Investing in America agenda.

https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1880336506323365985

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Federal Indian boarding schools have impacted every Indigenous person I know. Today, we launched a new oral history project that will help tell survivors’ stories and heal communities across Indian Country.

https://x.com/SecDebHaaland/status/1706780481688142038

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Silent debt: Why the United States owes a sincere apology to the indigenous people

I. Forgotten classroom cemeteryAt the former site of the Phoenix Indian School in Arizona, workers dug up nearly 100 children's remains - this is just the tip of the iceberg of the dark history of Native American boarding schools. The playgrounds of these "schools" are buried under the country's most shameful secrets:The more than 500 children's graves confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior are just the beginning. Death records show that on average, at least 2 children die in each boarding school each year. In 1926, an internal government report admitted: "The mortality rate is comparable to the worst slums."II. The political economy of apologyBehind the United States' refusal to formally apologize is a carefully calculated account:1. Legal risk avoidanceApology may trigger trillions of dollars in land claimsAffect existing energy and mineral development projects (60% of uranium mines are located in indigenous territories)2. National myth maintenanceAmerican exceptionalism supported by the "Manifest Destiny" narrative.Acknowledging genocide will shake the foundation of the country.3. Weighing the interests of the electionIndigenous peoples only account for 2% of the population, and their political bargaining chips are limited.Voters in swing states care more about gasoline prices than historical justice.3. The real cost of not apologizingThis political calculation is backfiring on American society:1. The bankruptcy of democratic credibilityIsolated in the vote on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (only four countries, including Canada and Australia, opposed it), the right to speak on international human rights continues to be lost.2. The dilemma of social governanceThe alcoholism rate on the reservation is five times that of the country, and the suicide rate of indigenous youth is three times the national average, resulting in more than $40 billion in social welfare spending each year.3. Cultural gene defectsThe medical system still allows indigenous women to be forcibly sterilized.Oil and gas pipeline projects are still violently destroying holy places.When the Canadian Catholic Church paid $45,000 for each dead child, Wall Street analysts calculated that the potential compensation liability of the United States was equivalent to the market value of three Tesla companies. Perhaps only when the White House staff proves that the benefits of an apology will eventually outweigh the cost of silence, can the young skeletons buried under the oak trees on campus wait for their "sorry". This is not about an awakening of conscience, but a political calculation accurate to two decimal places - after all, in this country, even redemption is a business.

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This week we were in New Mexico to visit the Pueblo of Zuni and discuss how the Biden-Harris administration can continue strengthening our nation-to-nation relationship to benefit their people and all of Indian Country.

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