Fighting to Get Home Original story from Belt Magazine Frank Green ran away from Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1898, headed to the Oneida homeland in Wisconsin. In 2022 he finally arrived. By Charles Fox Home’s the place we head for in our sleep.Boxcars stumbling north in dreams.— Louise Erdrich, from her poem “Indian Boarding […]
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‘Road to Healing’ tour highlights a century of abuse at hundreds of boarding schools for Indigenous children Original story from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interior Secretary Deb Haaland launched the tour in 2022, which will include the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Cumberland County History buffs touring Pennsylvania often visit Gettysburg and Valley Forge — two iconic
Mourning the loss of Ada Deer The Carlisle Indian School Project Board of Directors and staff send condolences to Ada’s family. We have lost a great warrior. Repost from Women in Wisconsin 1935–2023 City: Keshena, Madison County: Dane, Menominee Ada Deer was the first woman to head the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and the first Native American woman
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s charged mission of healing The first Native person to serve in a presidential Cabinet, she leads a department that once oversaw the removal of Indigenous people from their land By Karen HellerJuly 17, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT ONAMIA, Minn. — One after another, the survivors rose, shaking, often in tears,
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STATEMENT OF DEB HAALAND, SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS June 22, 2022 Hello and good afternoon, Chairman Schatz, Vice Chairman Murkowski, and members of the Committee. My name is Deb Haaland, and I serve as the Secretary of the Interior. It is an honor
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Jesse Paul & Nez Perce As a young child, Jesse Paul (Ka-khun-nee, Black Raven) encountered significant trauma in his life. His father and all five of his siblings died in the Nez Perce War of 1877. After the tribe surrendered, Jesse and his mother were sent to exile camps at Fort Leavenworth, then Baxter Springs,
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Zitkála-Šá: Trailblazing American Indian Composer The story of Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) who won the citizenship battle and was the first Native woman to write an opera inspired by the most sacred ceremony among the Plains Tribes. It was a way to instruct the colonizers about the importance of Indian culture in a language they
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