In June of 2021 U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, announced plans to initiate an investigation into the federal boarding schools that were implemented beginning in 1819 and running through 1969. On May 11, 2022 the first volume of the investigation was released to the public. The report details the government efforts in forced assimilation and the abuses students suffered during their time in the boarding schools. The report describes the schools conditions and identifies burial grounds, many unmarked, of children whose fate was death at these institutions. The report seeks to address the long-term impacts of these schools on Native American Tribes, Nations, and Alaskan and Hawaiian Natives.
The New Mexico State Library’s Federal Documents Collection holds this and many publications from the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as from the other agencies used to do research for this report.
Memorandum from the Secretary of the Interior : Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report Vol. I
Some related items found in the Federal Documents Collection:
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- Bureau of Indian Affairs not operating boarding schools efficiently : report of the Comptroller General of the United States.
- Closing of off-reservation boarding schools : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on the Bureau of Indian Affairs proposal to close three off-reservation boarding schools, February 24, 1982. Washington, D.C.
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Some related items found in the State Documents Collection:
Some related items found in the Southwest Collection:
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- Boarding school blues : revisiting American Indian educational experiences
- Boarding school voices : Carlisle Indian School students speak
- Also, learn more about the BIA Records in this libguide.
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