{"id":19351,"date":"2024-11-06T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2024-11-06T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:18:27","slug":"federal-indian-boarding-school-oral-history-project-stops-in-hawai%ca%bbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/federal-indian-boarding-school-oral-history-project-stops-in-hawai%ca%bbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Indian Boarding School Oral History Project Stops in Hawai\u02bbi\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the U.S. Department of the Interior<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of October, President Joe Biden formally apologized for the Federal Indian Boarding School Policy, saying \u201cI have a solemn responsibility to be the first President to formally apologize to the Native people \u2013 Native Americans, Native Hawaiians<\/strong>, Native Alaskans for the Federal Indian Boarding Schools. It\u2019s long, long, long overdue. Quite frankly, there\u2019s no excuse that this apology took 50 years to make.\u201d Watch here<\/a> – President Biden\u2019s apology can be heard at about the 27-minute mark.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden stated that the Federal Indian Boarding School era, over 150 years from the early 1800s to 1970, was one of the most horrific chapters in American history and that a vast majority of Americans do not know about it and how it resulted in lost generations, cultures, languages, and trust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While acknowledging the harm and intergenerational trauma of Federal Indian Boarding School policies and practices, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland shared that \u201cthe painful loss of our Indigenous languages has been a consistent topic\u201d as she met with former boarding school students \u201cfrom Hawai\u02bbi to Michigan to right here in Arizona,\u201d where Secretary Haaland and President Biden spoke at the Gila River Indian Community. Secretary Haaland also celebrated the perseverance of Indigenous communities that, despite being affected by the Federal Indian Boarding School System, are still here. President Biden and Secretary Haaland discussed the administration’s work with Indigenous communities to counter the effects of the Federal Indian Boarding School Policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden noted the apology was a culmination of decades of work by so many courageous people, including former attendees and descendants, allies, and advocates, including the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oral History Project in Hawai\u02bbi<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has announced Hawai\u02bbi as its next and final Oral History Project location for 2024. Please see the attached NABS press release<\/strong> about the Oral History Project and its purpose to “document and make accessible the experiences of the generations of Indigenous children who attended the federal boarding school system” to ensure such experiences “can be heard, and learned from, by current and future generations.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the press release, we can confirm that the two locations and dates for the Oral History Project in Hawai\u02bbi are:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n