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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Ask your relatives: Interested in sharing your Indian boarding school experience?

“I know that this process will be long and difficult. I know that this process will be painful. It won’t undo the heartbreak and loss we feel. But only by acknowledging the past can we work toward a future that we’re all proud to embrace.” — Secretary Deb Haaland

NABS Receives Grant From DOI to Create Permanent Collection of Stories from Survivors of Federal Indian Boarding Schools

Dear Relatives,

We are honored to share that NABS received a grant from the Department of the Interior (DOI) to conduct video interviews with Indian boarding school survivors across the United States to create a permanent oral history collection. This effort is part of the DOI’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.

NABS sees this Oral History Project as a historic opportunity to highlight the voices of Indian boarding school survivors and the harmful effects of U.S. Indian Boarding School Policy. Through this project, NABS will support the storytelling and healing of survivors which has never been done before in U.S. history. Since NABS was established, we have created spaces where survivors have felt safe to share their experiences. We have sat with them, learned with them, and have been moved by their courage. They are our family.

We look forward to working with our relatives across Indian Country in the U.S., empowering them as they share their stories. Our commitment includes offering our love and support throughout this process.

tix̌ix̌dubut (take care of yourself),

Tsicyaltsa,
Deborah Parker (Tulalip Tribes)
NABS Chief Executive Officer

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You can help today. The truth about the U.S. Indian boarding schools has largely been written out of the history books. The social, emotional, spiritual, and cultural devastation from boarding school experiences are passed down to Native American individuals, families, communities, and Tribal Nations today. The time for healing these intergenerational traumas is now. Help us work towards truth, justice, and healing.

Resources:

Secretarial Memo launching the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
Secretary Haaland op-ed(link is external): My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this history.
Department of the Interior and National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Memorandum of Understanding
Department of the Interior Releases Investigative Report, Outlines Next Steps in Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

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Rebecca Tallbear entitled: “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe”, bearing out what I only inferred:

Detailed discussion of the Bering Strait theory and other scientific theories about the population of the modern-day Americas is beyond the scope of this essay. However, it should be noted that Indian people have expressed suspicion that DNA analysis is a tool that scientists will use to support theories about the origins of tribal people that contradict tribal oral histories and origin stories. Perhaps more important,the alternative origin stories of scientists are seen as intending to weaken tribal land and other legal claims (and even diminish a history of colonialism?) that are supported in U.S. federal and tribal law. As genetic evidence has already been used to resolve land conflicts in Asian and Eastern European countries, this is not an unfounded fear.

GOOGLE

In some cases, companies may even take it upon themselves to control the narrative according to their own politics and professed values, with no need for government intervention. For example: Google, the most powerful information company in the world, has been reported to fix its algorithms to promote, demote, and disappear content according to undisclosed internal “fairness” guidelines. This was revealed by a whistleblower named Zach Vorhies in his almost completely ignored book, Google Leaks, and by Project Veritas, in a sting operation against Jen Gennai, Google’s Head of Responsible Innovation. In their benevolent desire to protect us from hate speech and disinformation, Google/YouTube immediately removed the original Project Veritas video from the Internet. - https://desultoryheroics.com/2023/11/12/internet-censorship-everywhere-all-at-once