US Interior to release report on Indigenous boarding schools

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department is predicted to release a report Wednesday that it says will start to uncover the reality concerning the federal authorities’s previous oversight of Native American boarding schools.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland introduced an initiative final June to examine the troubled legacy of the schools.

Indigenous youngsters have been taken from their communities for many years and compelled into schools that sought to strip them of their language and tradition.

Churches additionally led among the schools, backed by U.S. legal guidelines and insurance policies. Later this week, a congressional subcommittee will hear testimony on a invoice to set up a fact and therapeutic fee.