Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary, released the first part of the department’s report on federal Indian Boarding Schools.
A report detailing the federal government’s Indian boarding school system, including one school in Grand Junction, has been released showing how the schools negatively affected tribal culture in the U.S.
“The only thing that’s good that came out today is the fact that we’re being acknowledged at last. Mothers who were locked away and lived with their silent grief will now have the opportunity to be able to talk about it and cry about it. And that’s something.”
After the webinar some survivors attended with the Taoiseach and Minister Roderic O’Gorman this afternoon, Terri contacted some women who weren’t part of the call – women in their 70s and 80s who waited decades to be told “you did nothing wrong”.
Terri has mixed feeling about the webinar and whether or not the attitudes of government towards survivors have changed.