A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America | KPFA Guest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today.  She is the recipient of several...

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes @mapember.bsky.social, national correspondent for ICT News, and author of #MedicineRiver: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of #IndianBoardingSchools

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The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’ Mary Annette Pember’s expansive book Medicine River looks at the many ways the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native families

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An Apology meaning What? The United States Violent Legacy of Operating Native American Boarding Schools On October 25th, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their

An Apology meaning What? | The United States' Violent Legacy of Operating #NativeAmericanBoardingSchools

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‘Too shameful to acknowledge’: Biden delivers historic apology for Indian boarding schools • South Dakota Searchlight President Joe Biden issued an apology to Indigenous communities for the U.S. government's role in the Native American boarding school system.

"I formally apologize, as president of the United States of America, for what we did.”

— President #JoeBiden, to Indigenous communities across the country for the U.S. government's role in #NativeBoardingSchools.

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Good on Joe Biden.

An #Apology doesn't erase but the acknowledgement does open pathways.

It did here. But it is not the end of the journey until Peoples are all living well and draconian measures to keep us down, sublimate First Nations Peoples cease & Lands returns.

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