US EditionTribes Say the U.S. Misappropriated Funds to Pay for Native American Boarding Schools
- On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is scheduled to travel to the Seneca Nation Territory to offer a formal apology for the state’s involvement in operating the Thomas Indian School between 1875 and 1957.
- The apology follows decades of forced assimilation policies that separated Native American children from their families and stripped them of their culture at boarding schools nationwide.
- The Thomas Indian School, located in Cattaraugus Territory, was part of a system of over 400 government-supported schools where many children suffered abuse, violence, and cultural suppression.
- A report released in 2022 by the U.S. Interior Department reveals extensive physical, sexual, and emotional abuse at these boarding schools, along with hundreds of fatalities, while Seneca President J. Conrad Seneca described Governor Hochul’s apology as long overdue.
- The visit is expected to be a significant step toward healing, though some tribe members remain skeptical of the state's sincerity and hope for actions beyond verbal apologies.
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NY Governor Apologizes for Native Boarding School History
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the atrocities she says were committed at an upstate boarding school where Native American youths were forcibly separated from their families and forced to assimilate into American society. The post New York Governor Apologizes for Native American Boarding School History appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
Native Nations sue US government alleging misuse of trust funds for boarding schools
The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita Tribe) and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Washoe Tribe) filed a class action trust accounting lawsuit on Thursday, alleging that the US government misused Native Nations’ “own funds” to pay for the country’s boarding school program during a period that former President Joe Biden named “one of the most horrific chapters in American history.” The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are the Wichita and …
Tribes say the U.S. misappropriated funds to pay for Native American boarding schools
Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were systematically abused. In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the Wichita Tribe and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California said that by the U.S. government’s own admission, the schools were funded using money ra…
Kathy Hochul apologizes for New York’s role in Native American boarding schools
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the site of the Thomas Indian School, over two…
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